Derek,
Thanks. You're a brave man, telling the truth.
And you're right: building is fun, but nothing is more challenging and rewarding than family. A wood project can be perfect enough, but can a guy ever be a perfect enough dad?
I agree: master builders are the true architects. Anyone out there read The Old Way of Seeing by Jonathon Hale?
Thanks the rest of you folks, too, for posting luddite thoughts, and those in between, to the world?
Boatbuilding, eh, Derek? My town has less timberframes than a bad carpenter has fingers and the largest working woodenboat fleet on the West Coast. On occasion I leave my tools and go commercial fishing with friends on their wood trollers. It's one of the more beautiful experiences in the world, being dozens of miles offshore, pulling in fish, feeling a boat from the 30's work in response to big seas.
The folks who built those boats were builder/architects. Each fish iced in the hold makes the boat ride a little smoother. A good boat with a plugged hold rides like a happy boat.
Thanks, everyone, for this forum.
Zach
