There are many sailors who insist that wooden boats have a soul; that unlike
their mass-produced sisters, they are truly living beings. For the
uninitiated , it is easy to be skepticla of such conceits, and dismiss
them as mere romantic notions . Both romance is not infatuation; it is the

Whoops forgot to cite the master word smith. Quote is from Joeseph Gribbons in his book Wooden boats

enguagement of heart and mind , and there are few contrivances as utterly
enguaging as a boats made of wood. There is something profoundly important
in fashioning in fashioning timbers and planks for yactchs an boats
something very spiritual in the shaping of material. Perhaps it has to do
with ancient things ; a blending of ancient skills with an ancient
resource Or perhaps it hs to do with the honor of transforming something
so grand and graceful as a tree into something so lithe and lovely as a
boat. Certianly there are few opportunites in life these days to blend art
science , and the natural world in so dramtic a fashion

-Joeseph Gribbons