The same faithful friends and family gathered round our hearth for an evening of very good wine, food and conversation. Oh for a transcript or two. It was just cool enough for an all day and night fire. Still had live embers this morning; late morning actually. Moving pretty slow right now and looking forward to a nap.
Sorry you wern’t able to make it Jake. Next year.
Sjogin and Beaton stuff follow.
Our Crowd.
Calm Saturday morning.
Messy Shop. Cover of the April 1956 Rudder magazine.
Tom Beaton told me this story yesterday: His father, Lachlan Beaton (Lolly) was sitting at home reading the April 1956 issue of Rudder magazine. He glanced at the cover and remarked to his family what a messy shop it was. After a moment or two he realized that it was HIS shop. An artist had done a wood cut of Nealy Campbell, one of his boatbuilders a while before and there it was on the cover of the Rudder, a long gone favorite. The transom and rudder on the cover is the White Whale, a Nantucket Sloop built by Beaton’s for the Kellogg family.