Introduction and hello

[marlingspike]

I am pleased to have found this forum on classic boats. My background is as a rigger and sailor on traditional yachts and square-riggers. At present I work on board the ship BALCLUTHA in San Francisco. My love at the moment is restoring my teak Tahiti ketch TOREA in preparation for a passage to Tahiti in 2 years.

I lived in Glasgow for almost a year in 1998 while I supervised the rigging restoration of the Clydebuilt 3 masted barque GLENLEE, 1896 web page . This was the 3rd Clydebuilt square-rigger out of the 5 remaining in the world I have rigged on ( BALCLUTHA web page & MOSHULU web page ), and have done some consulting work on the FALLS of CLYDE web page .

Jamie White
Clutha Fecit

 

[wflannery]

Hi Jamie

I spent a great week in SF last Oct 2004 in the Small boat shed at Hyde Pier on a boat repair course with Wooden boats. I was the only englishman there so Tom gave me a T-shirt as I had come from the UK to do the course.

Its a great place to be and I envy you, as I'm stuck in a offfice in London

You're with a super group of people as well! Say hello to Tom for me

Will