9 responses to “Slow progress – dust and disorder collects quickly”

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  Amos July 6th, 2008 at 20:15

  What I want to know is how do you have time to do all this work and update your website too?

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  matti July 6th, 2008 at 20:33

  Updating the website takes not time at all compared to building a boat… Can sometimes be a motivator, though.

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  Ricard July 6th, 2008 at 21:54

  Dear Amos, you have to bear in mind that Matti was trained to write stuff and communicate he was never trained to build boats. Which shines through at times.
  Matti;
  Seriously the blogging you’ve put in and the work that you, Teddy and Merike has done is fabulous. I’m just happy to come and sail with you when all this hard work stuff is over.

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  matti July 6th, 2008 at 22:20

  You are so modest Ricard. Wasn’t it you that taught me the most valuable of boat building skills? To know when poking a knife in the keel plank will only make you miserable; and that you are better off sailing instead.

  /m

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  Ricard July 6th, 2008 at 22:39

  That’s a special boat building skill that falls under- cost/benefit analysis. Don’t ever attempt it, there’s no going back.

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  matti July 6th, 2008 at 22:47

  Well, you can always sell the wreck.

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  Amos July 6th, 2008 at 23:13

  “Dear Amos, you have to bear in mind that Matti was trained to write stuff and communicate he was never trained to build boats.”

  So that is my problem, I never learned boat building or communicating.

  And cost/benefit analysis seems like a pretty fuzzy concept when it comes to boats.

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  Ricard July 6th, 2008 at 23:45

  Amos, I never said that that Matti learned to communicate- he was however trained to.
  Cost/benefit is not a fuzzy concept when it comes to boats, it’s absolutely useless in any way.
  Cheers

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  Matti July 7th, 2008 at 22:23

  I like that. Cost/benefit. It is of course useless. I think Philip Bolger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bolger wrote something interesting about that in one of his books. Of course I don’t remember anything about it except that it had to do something about building a 12 ft long full-rigger.
  /m