Comments for My Wooden Boat of the Week http://boats.woodenboat.com My Favorite Wooden Boat Of the Week Wed, 09 May 2012 10:08:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Leggero Boats: “Wood, synonymous with technical and design” by Kurt Cerny http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2780&cpage=1#comment-1904 Kurt Cerny Wed, 09 May 2012 10:08:45 +0000 http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2780#comment-1904 I have admired the boats from Alexandre Genoud for some time. Each one beatiful but unique. This one is no exception. I love the construction method. I hope that designs like this will continue to attract people to wood boats and the possibility of building one themselves. I have admired the boats from Alexandre Genoud for some time. Each one beatiful but unique. This one is no exception. I love the construction method. I hope that designs like this will continue to attract people to wood boats and the possibility of building one themselves.

]]> Comment on The Ikea Dinghy & Seggerling by Jan Brandt http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2761&cpage=1#comment-1902 Jan Brandt Fri, 04 May 2012 22:05:20 +0000 http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2761#comment-1902 Not a joke at all. My Dad owned and raced a Seggerling util he was about 67. It is an active and close knit class of die hard racers in northern Germany. It is a very forgiving but reasonably high performance boat to with sufficient volume for even father -daughter outings. I am glad to see that WB has some interest. Actually it would be great if you (or Dieter) could do a feature on the Seggerling and Juis's other designs. I bet it would be of interest to your english speaking readers. Regards, Jan Not a joke at all. My Dad owned and raced a Seggerling util he was about 67. It is an active and close knit class of die hard racers in northern Germany. It is a very forgiving but reasonably high performance boat to with sufficient volume for even father -daughter outings.

I am glad to see that WB has some interest. Actually it would be great if you (or Dieter) could do a feature on the Seggerling and Juis’s other designs. I bet it would be of interest to your english speaking readers.

Regards, Jan

]]> Comment on The Ikea Dinghy & Seggerling by John Brooks http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2761&cpage=1#comment-1901 John Brooks Wed, 02 May 2012 14:07:41 +0000 http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2761#comment-1901 Carl, Very cool. Europeans have been making kits for a very long time and do very interesting boats with clever features. We here in the US could learn a lot from them and it would be great to see more of these types of boats in the magazines on this side of the pond. Keep up the diligent work! Carl,

Very cool. Europeans have been making kits for a very long time and do very interesting boats with clever features. We here in the US could learn a lot from them and it would be great to see more of these types of boats in the magazines on this side of the pond.

Keep up the diligent work!

]]> Comment on “The Lost Empire of Atlantis” by Alan Kenworthy http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2693&cpage=1#comment-1900 Alan Kenworthy Wed, 02 May 2012 13:32:36 +0000 http://boats.woodenboat.com/?p=2693#comment-1900 Of course you are right, and Atlantis was far more of a local Med place than the the many moneymaking popular books have tried to say. Simple story: Santorini explosion about 1450 bc so completely destroys Minoan (Greek) maritime shipping that only the Egyptians have a reliable record of the event. Their priests tell the story to Solon, and his descendant Plato later describes the Santorini harbour in the incomplete book Kritias.That is the beginning of all the Atlantis stories, most of them nonsense. See James Mavor's book on Santorini archaeology, and Tim Severin's The Ulysses Voyage which shows how the Aegean and the Ionian legends are incorporated into Homeric pilot book information for sailors. And try sailing there to get a feel for the small world of Bronze age sailing and trading. Having said that Atlantis was a Greek and Aegean place, the explosion was enormous and the whole of Greek history and mythology has to interpreted as post-volcanic. Strange that the contemporaneous events described in Exodus as the nine plagues and the parting of the seas for the fleeing Israelites are not now fully acknowledged by Jews as simply the results of the of the cloud and tsunami from Santorini and nothing to do with divine displeasure and interference. But since when has any religion wanted to now any truths? Of course you are right, and Atlantis was far more of a local Med place than the the many moneymaking popular books have tried to say. Simple story: Santorini explosion about 1450 bc so completely destroys Minoan (Greek) maritime shipping that only the Egyptians have a reliable record of the event. Their priests tell the story to Solon, and his descendant Plato later describes the Santorini harbour in the incomplete book Kritias.That is the beginning of all the Atlantis stories, most of them nonsense.
See James Mavor’s book on Santorini archaeology, and Tim Severin’s The Ulysses Voyage which shows how the Aegean and the Ionian legends are incorporated into Homeric pilot book information for sailors. And try sailing there to get a feel for the small world of Bronze age sailing and trading.
Having said that Atlantis was a Greek and Aegean place, the explosion was enormous and the whole of Greek history and mythology has to interpreted as post-volcanic. Strange that the contemporaneous events described in Exodus as the nine plagues and the parting of the seas for the fleeing Israelites are not now fully acknowledged by Jews as simply the results of the of the cloud and tsunami from Santorini and nothing to do with divine displeasure and interference.
But since when has any religion wanted to now any truths?

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