As I go about my day-to-day business of preparing Gypsy for the sea I love to pause from time to time and check out the other boat projects that are going on in the yard. Someone, and I haven’t seen who, has been working on this old schooner mast and it looks almost complete.
Even though I’ve never seen them, slow but steady progress has been made all summer. Reminds me of my old Tai Chi teacher who used to advise us to; “make a little progress every day”. The mast is a gorgeous piece of work with spreaders shaped like propellers and fittings the like of which is seldom seen in this century. I’m glad that someone is making the effort to preserve this wonderful of rig. I’m also glad it's not me.
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