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Monday, December 30. 2013

Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co., Est. 1899


I was looking to see who builds the Shields 30. Turns out it's Cape Cod Shipbuilding.


It turns out that, among a number of other designs, they make the classic Cape Cod Catboat



and this classic Herreshoff:



Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 19:32 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Get your light bulbs (60 and 40 watts) before they are ILLEGAL on Jan 1, (Wed)

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/12/last-call-get-your-light-bulbs-now.html
#1 Steve on 2013-12-30 22:38 (Reply)
I love the old style wooden boats When I was young in Nova Scotia, My dad had a Mahone bay mahogany runabout, a 30ft. lobster fishing boat, a chestnut canoe, and a sailboat which I don't remember well as I was so young... Maritime weather being what it was, most of them came to a hard end... But the memories,the smells on a hot day.
#2 AHH!!! on 2013-12-30 23:48 (Reply)
Love the Shields, I was seriously going to buy one last year after my Cape Dory was lost in Sandy. The lack of a head with three women in my family nixed the plan.
#3 Dennis on 2013-12-31 08:04 (Reply)
I love those things!! The 30s. When I lived in NYC I had some cousins who had a place up in Connecticut. Somebody they knew had one of those and they had free license to sail it. Lots of fun.
#4 T.K. Tortch on 2013-12-31 14:13 (Reply)

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