[Richard-S]

In my younger years I lived in a town that fancied itself "the boat building capital of the Chesapeake". There were indeed a lot of boat shops there. I had one. I built wooden boats and did a lot of repair work.

These were the sixties and seventies, when young people were moving to the country, returning to the basics you might say, and there came to town quite a number of these and they became boat builders. A few of them actually built boats. But most, I found, mostly talked about the boats they were going to build . . . and collected tools.

I could tell a real boat builder by his tools. They were relatively few, and they were old. Whereas the "tool collectors" had every new shiny gadget you could imagine. The problem was they didn't get around to building any boats. They had a lot of fun though, before they moved back to the city and went back to work.

Richard