Small Craft Advisory: A Book about the Building of a BoatGrove Press, 1994 - 394 ページ Small Craft Advisory is an enchanting book about Louis Rubin's obsession with boats and his years of often hilarious boating adventures. When Louis Rubin was thirteen, he built a leaky little boat and paddled it out to the edge of the ship channel in Charleston, South Carolina, where he felt the inexorable pull of the water. Fifty years and dozens of boats later--sailboats, powerboats, inboards and outboards--the pull is as strong as ever. In the tradition established by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, and Herman Melville, distinguished author and scholar Louis Rubin explores man's longtime passion for boats. He examines the compulsion that has prompted him and hundreds of thousands of other non-nautical persons to spend so much time, and no small portion of their incomes, on watercraft that they can use only infrequently. As his new boat (a cabin cruiser made of wood on a workboat hull) is being built, Rubin tells of his past boats and numerous boating disasters and draws a poignant comparison between his two passions: watercraft and the craft of writing. Anyone who has ever bought and owned a boat--or wondered why people are obsessed by them--will love this amusing, evocative, beautifully crafted memoir by an inveterate boat-owner. |
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ADGERS WHARF | 33 |
SAILBOAT FOR SALE | 56 |
THE SEARCH BEGUN | 91 |
THE DEED DONE TOGETHER WITH MEMORIES OF ANOTHER | 110 |
ALL SYSTEMS WELL ALMOST ALL ARE GO | 138 |
TUGBOAT CAPTAINS RIVER PILOTS AND THE CRAFT OF FICTION | 164 |
A TALE OF TWO LAPSTRAKE BOATS | 179 |
CARIBBEAN INTERLUDE | 205 |
THE BOAT THAT DIDNT GET BUILT | 253 |
THE BOAT THAT DID GET BUILT | 274 |
SO SAID THE WATER RAT | 303 |
WANING OF THE SEASON | 330 |
ON RISKTAKING | 357 |
CRAFT AND CREDULITY | 374 |
EPILOGUE 1991 | 391 |
PROJECTS AND PROBLEMS OR THE MARY SIMPSON STRIKES AGAIN | 224 |
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15 ページ - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!