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Monday, June 26, 2006

Imperfection and Satisfaction

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Paul the apostle in the first book of Corinthians, chapter 13, verse 10, declares, ‘But when that which is perfect has come, then that which...
Saturday, June 17, 2006

Dreams

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“I have a dream,” were the words of Martin Luther King, and what a wonderful dream - the equality of the races, a world without prejudice - ...
Sunday, May 28, 2006

Beating the Weather

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If I had wide enough access to my back lawn I would have built my Paradox sailboat there in a purpose built boat shed, but instead I’ve been...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

Putting Things Right

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Boat building is not like house building where most joints are at right angles or at forty five degrees, such as where bricks meet at the co...
Monday, May 15, 2006

Sequence

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When building a boat, the sequence of events is crucial to a successful outcome, as is the case with many activities involving the putting t...
Saturday, May 06, 2006

Big Steps and Small Steps

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Neil Armstrong, when he set foot on planet Moon said, “That’s one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind.” It was a momentous e...
Sunday, April 30, 2006

Thinking Time and Working Time

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“Sometimes I sit and think; other times I just sit!” What has amazed me is the amount of time needed for working out how best to build each ...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

Excitement

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I’ve just been watching Liverpool and Chelsea in the semi-final of the FA Cup, with the final score at 2-1 in favour of Liverpool, but how e...
Sunday, April 16, 2006

Steps

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A thousand mile trek is but one step at a time; so the ancient Chinese proverb goes, but when you take two steps forward and one step back i...
Monday, April 10, 2006

Happy

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Happiness; what is it? Usually it is a fleeting moment of inward joy, elation or ecstasy - a feeling that sometimes arrives unexpectedly. ...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

More Faith

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It looks as though my web site will almost be without change for the next few months because I’m stuck into building ‘Faith’, a Paradox micr...
Friday, March 17, 2006

‘Faith’ Building

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Faith building sounds like something to do with a fundamental Christian religion; the thing pastors, deacons and evangelicals work at day in...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

Temptation

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In the autumn of last year I started to build a Matt Layden Paradox micro-sailboat, but when the winter weather made its presence felt I was...
Monday, March 06, 2006

Jack London

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Jack London had a very short, but action packed life; he died in 1916 at the age of 40 after having spent most of his life writing both fict...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Wave over Wave

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Here’s a shanty by Jim Payne on the theme of a sailor’s lot when sailing ships were commonplace. The ditty tells the story of a sailor who ...
Saturday, February 18, 2006

The Three Voices

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Over past months I’ve scoured Internet archives for good poetry on the subjects of the ‘sea’ and ‘ships’, but my search has borne little fru...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

A Shanty

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Rudyard Kipling has written many a good yarn and some provocative poetry. For today’s entry I’ve chosen, ‘The Last Chantey’. This is a dir...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

A Whale of a Time

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I thought this little article I prepared for the smallsailboats Yahoo! discussion group might be appropriate here. It tells of an encounter ...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

The Sea

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It's said you either like the sea or you hate it, but maybe there are those who are amibivalent about it? I love the sea when all is fi...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

‘Master and Commander’

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My brother was somewhat surprised that I had not read any novels by Patrick O’Brian, the Anglo-Irish novelist whose stirring tales of the Br...