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• Wednesday is PHOTO Day!
  • we have a bit of snow today
    • TOOOOOO COLD!!!!
  • A little warm-up project
    • Another coat on the inside and several more coats of varnish and it will be ready again
      • Looks like you did a nice job
        • Thanks, Larry. It was a fun project and a pleasure to row.
      • Wow! Nice!
      • Envious
        • Come to Maine and you can take it for a spin.
    • That is the look of a great row. I'm looking for something like that.
      • Hard to beat your Nutshell or the Shellback for a nice rowing tender
        • I am. After seeing this boat builder glide in on one.
  • Dave, I thought your trawler had an Ultra anchor?
    • Nope. It came with something like a 20 pound Danforth. I replaced it with an 80 pound Manson.
  • Riding the Vaporetto at dusk, I caught this young Venetian gliding out of an ancient canal.
    • great shot
      • Both in fact, Larry. I was riding a public Vaporetto with a 135mm zoom.
    • the construction of these craft is in it self a
      • Most now are fiberglass. Still one 400 year old business making wooden ones.
      • Yes. In fact the hull design - centuries old, is asymmetrical.
    • Sure he wasn't an Irishman . . . that looks like an Aran sweater to me
      • Could be, here's another photo of the couple a few moments later.
        • Could you explain the function of the Forcola?
          • Come to think of it, this Gondola may be a Traghetto.
            • wow, there is a lot to learn about those
              • They are fascinating. Here are several loaded gondolas underway in a tight canal.
                • Wow!
                • On Burano I saw many different colors of gondolas, I reckon to match the colorful houses.
    • Love Italy and especially Venice
      • Great photo. We're sorry we didn't get to San Giorgio Maggiore, the little island in your photo.
  • Not you average mega yacht
  • Sprinmg is here and the fish are biting...
    • Re: NICE, now into the pan!
      • They tossed it back in.