Over the Thanksgiving holiday, our ground crew James and I were able to visit a family friend of his over in St. Michaels MD who is putting together a wooden boat. This isn't just your typical canoe, its a 44' long "Bugeye". While I couldn't tell you what the heck its supposed to look like when its finished (other than its got some kind of pilothouse on it), its a BIG BOAT. Most of the lumber that is being used on it was cut from right on the Eastern Shore of MD. The mast timber was taken from just south of Cambridge. He said that him and his building partner are single-handedly keeping West System in business. He cannot trailer the boat out, instead, he's going to have to use a house moving service to move it through town to the Maritime Museum's skipjack launch and put it in there.

At any rate, I figured with all the talk about all these hi-tech building methods, some of you might appreciate some of the lower-tech stuff and the craftmanship required to make it all work.

Pics are here if you care at all.