The Boat
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558216405 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 164 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He is the kind of timber cruiser one can only dream for: He respects a bottomland of hardwoods, considering not so much dollars per board foot as its value as a haven for game food (he is also a much-respected author of books on turkey hunting). All rights reserved.. And he makes a boat, too, an object loved and full of memories. In the military and the logging business and as a son-in-law, he knew how to keep his mouth shut and learn from the old hands, regardless of their place in the hierarchical setting: He appreciated what it meant to be the boss of a guy known as the Legend, and he learned the value of sensitivity, empathy, courtesy, and consideration--not in any epiphanal fashion, but simply as part of the process, much as readers come to appreciate the woodlands he cruises. What Kelly s
GREAT little read While I accidentally happened upon this book during a search on bodybuilding, it was a great find for boat lovers and boat builders. It has very little to do with boatbuilding and lots to do with the south, lumber industry, people and how people are attracted to and influenced by boats. Tom Kelly is a very witty and gifted writer whose great skills of observation and description, especially of people, are ever present little book. tomkellyinc.net. "writer- usually about Turkey hunting but this is a wonderful book about a homebuilt skiff" according to P. S. Martin. Tom Kelly is an extremely entertaining writer- usually about Turkey hunting but this is a wonderful book about a homebuilt skiff.
Since the construction of this boat coincides with Kelly's career in the timber industry, his humorous narrative embraces both.Along the way we meet classic Kelly characters - people with whom he worked, with whom he served in the military, and those he simply ran into. Each person inadvertently affected Kelly's boat by donating parts, offering unwanted construction advice, sharing trips in the finished product, or, in the end, actually acquiring it, when Kelly finally caved in and bought a "beaver-proof" fiberglass boat.Both hilarious and knowledgeable, The