It's days like this
It's days like this when thoughts first turn to getting a boat into the water.
It's not like this was the first time the thought entered my mind. But for this story the time had come to move forward. A set of sails ordered and on their way for a completely different boat. Plans afoot to start construction and by grace alone - a random comment
"Oh did you see this one? It's right in town ..You've probably seen it already".
"No wait. Show me".
And we were off.
I'd looked at this boat numerous times throughout the fall and then it suddenly disappeared off the intra-webs. I repeatedly told myself that if I wasn't so set on building something, then this is the boat I'd get.
There had been a Nordic Folkboat moored in the harbour for years and I'd been passionately in love with it's lines and all that wood. In all the years of going down to the harbour to look at boats, the way it sat in the water had etched itself into my mind. It never just 'sat' at the dock. It was always waiting.
Sometimes I would go down there, not for any other reason. Just to get a glimpse of that boat.
And here was another. Born out of the greatest age of wood on the water. Staring me in the face. How could I say no?