Tag: Casey Boatbuilding

DID I SHOW YOU THIS OLD SAILBOAT PROPELLER?

It’s off a 40′ ketch built in Massachusetts in 1929 by Casey Boatbuilding. I was part of its boatyard party crew in the early 1980s. ….

Boats

1930 Casey Ketch

In Florida in the early 80’s I hung out on a 40′ ketch built by Casey Boatbuilding, Fairhaven, MA, in 1927. What a wonderful classic ….

Casey Ketch from my past

This is a wooden ketch built by Casey Boatbuilding in 1929. It’s like one I hung out on in Florida in the early ’80s. I ….

Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.