stephen thomas
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2001
Wot on earth do you do with a belaying pin when you have not a boat to use them on?
There used to be some around from grandpa, along with fids and palm thimbles & sewing gear & a copper diving helmet from his time as a diver on the Panama canal. His were actually used.
He worked on some coastal boats in New England as a teenager, became a cowboy out west, and then was shanghaid by a british crew out of San Francisco in 1903, onto a square rigger (Barquentine Orion, Dundee Scotland). Spent much of the rest of his life at sea, often on the last large wooden ships between stints in the navy & steel merchant ships.
smt