Author: David Ryan

Surge-pricing, cake icing, ambition as soul craft, and other ways to pass the time while doing repetitive work.

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.

A short photo tour of a typical day in the Montauk Catamaran Company Boat Shop

Nutcracker madness is over, so it’s back to the boat shop!

For Hanneke Boon, messing about in boats isn’t a life-philosophy, it’s a life.

The postman brings something important to the Montauk Catamaran Company boat shop, and the captain meditates on creativity and procrastination.

How to make boat-bulding glue.

The first post in the ongoing chronicle of the construction of Mon Tiki Largo, a 63 foot ocean voyaging catamaran.

A lot to be thankful for, and something to look forward to!

Today we crossed a small milestone in the Montauk Catamaran Company boat shop.

A windfall of clamps offers a new way to work.

My wife says she’d much rather have me spend the winter building a boat in the driveway than picking fights on the internet.

I don’t know what woke me up this morning. But something did, and whatever that something was got me down to Mon Tiki just in time to see her break free.

I have some thoughts I’d like to share with you about the Dropbox dudebros, and medical missionaries, and privilege, and courage. But not just yet.

It was the last weekend in September, and even though it was now autumn for sure the weather that weekend was as fine and fair as one could hope for from any summer day.

We almost never see dolphins, but we saw some on yesterday’s afternoon outing!

The season isn’t over, but it is winding down.

August 29, 2014. Best ever.

As a project for this winter, I would like to expand my uke/guitar repertoire to include sing-alongs; songs like “Southern Cross” or “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, and I am asking OG readers and writers to make suggestions in the comments.