on the heels of recent threads regarding collecting, and on 'to ride or not to ride it...', there is an interesting article in today's paper, (read: The New York Times), about the renaissance of wooden boat building in general and about the newly-launched Rebecca, in particular. certainly, there is relevance between this subject and the CR list subject matter.
the fourth paragraph reads: Boats like Rebecca remind us of ''how much we're losing in this homogenized, marketing-ethic, throwaway culture,'' said David McCollough, the author and historian, who plies the Vineyard Sound in his own 21-foot Gannon & Benjamin sloop, Rosalie. ''I would like to own the boat even if I never went out on it, just to look at it, the way one would love to own a painting or a great piece of furniture.''
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