You can spend a small fortune at Konrads or you can buy a beautiful model of a Victorian Pond Yacht for a few hundred buck. Nautical models and art is a specialized market, but there are a few really great shops in the world that carry high-quality models of historic ships, and they’ve got nothing Continue Reading
Netarts Oregon, just after dark: I’m stumbling down a steep and slippery trail in pitch blackness, holding a pan of blackberry cobbler in one hand, trying decide what to do with it when I fall… Netarts is a little town on the Oregon coast that sounds like it’s spelled backwards. Straten–hmmm, that sounds a lot Continue Reading
You’re on your own for a couple of weeks. Tomorrow moring at 00:Dark:Thirty I’m headed for Boston to do Stoneaxe (Bob) and ECSUP’s (Mike) Cape Cod Challenge. I’ll be in Boston for five days, then back to Oregon and off immediately for Netarts Bay for the Starboard Dealer Meeting. The nice folks at Starboard were Continue Reading
The muffled thump and curses in a Boston accent told me brother Bob had tried to move another palm tree with his face. It’s nerve-wracking carrying boards, paddles, tents, coolers, tables and myriad other items across a pitch-dark park to the beach. Especially when you’re wearing the traditional Maui “slippahs”. Cheap between-the-toe thong sandals afford Continue Reading