What tugs the strings of your soul?

[Tar Devil]

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[bamamick]

Beautiful wooden boats, especially those with long overhangs.

That and to hear the Million Dollar Band play 'Yea Alabama'.

Mickey Lake

[huisjen]

I leased my soul to the USN some years back. It came back with the strings ripped out at the grommets. But I still got a decent price when I sold it some years later. It's okay though, 'cause I'm building a new one out of spare parts.

Dan

[Norman Bernstein]

Certain films... several by Steven Spielberg, plus others. Films that inspire and emote... reveal truths about human beings... they tug at my heart.

'Forrest Gump'... a fantasy, but one which we can all relate to, on some level

'Empire of the Sun'... about lost innocence

'The Color Purple'... the best film about courage ever made... and it didn't have a single thing to do with war

'Lone Star'... touches me for totally personal reasons

[uncas]

Fred Z... that works.. :)
But as I'm single.. umm, it comes down to a classic or older wooden boat...
Sitting there in the evening.. with a little Mozart.. or Gershwin.. or what have you playing quietly in the background, and a nice coal stove dring out the moisture in a quiet bay/harbor with no one around, a nice bottle of wine and a filet mignon on the grill.. now there are my heart strings.

[Chris Coose]

I prepare to be tugged by eating and sleeping well, praying and meditating to come into the moment.

If I am dwelling in yesterday or tomorrow, I could get tugged by a small atomic weapon and not get what is being presented.

When spiritually fit and present to the moment the passing of a butterfly stops me in my tracks.

[elf]

The third song of the Vier ernste Gesange by Brahms, and Peter's denial aria in Bach's St. John.

[Mrleft8]

The puppet master up in the catwalks

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

"...Peter's denial aria in Bach's St. John."

And Schubert's Erl King, since I became a father.

[Another One]

The clear evening sky, with more stars than you'd think could share (infinite) space . . .

Watching my daughter lope across the sand, face into the wind and arms out like she's about to take flight . . .

Sitting at the table with Rick, dreaming about the next house we will build . . .

Swinging in the chair hammock in early evening, down by the water garden, and listening to the wind in the pines around me. . .

ETA: Che gelida manina, from La Boheme. When he hits that upward cresendo, it feels like my soul is being lifted into the clouds.

[ingo]

My daughters when they surprise me

Planing down the waves with my gaff rigged dinghy

[LeeG]

looking at a photo of my daughters when they were 3 or 4, especially the younger one. Above timberline in the Sierras.

[Rick Starr]

That scratchy old recording of Marian Anderson singing Schubert's Ave Maria.

The bass, half heard and half felt, of a brace of diesels tumbling the water beneath the stern.

The silence just after a mainsail has been sheeted in and just before the hiss of water whispers up from the bow.

The andromeda galaxy on a clear night with the naked eye.

Carving mahogany.

[ishmael]

This cat, who has the most engaging way of vibrating when I'm about to let her out. Her whole body, but especially her head. It reminds me to be alive.

My dead doggy. I visit her everyday. I know people think I'm nuts, but I see animals as our equals, and remember them, and think on them so. Sheba was, and remains, a soulmate. I will never meet a creature again who was so much alive.

Lot's of other things. I move my imagination into other places easily. Lately there's a pasture with three horses in it that stirs me. A fine pastoral, it's so beautiful. Good film, old lovers--most of them.

[paladin]

Things change.....but......
The open ocean, a steady gentle wind, sitting in the cockpit with a fresh cuppa tea, pup snuggled up close and watching the phosphorescence of the water astern..with the log ticking along..

[Bob Smalser]

...dreaming about the next house we will build . . .

;)

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[TomF]

The third song of the Vier ernste Gesange by Brahms, and Peter's denial aria in Bach's St. John.Oh Tod, oh Tod. Wie bitter, wie bitter bist du ....

For me, it's the recapitulation of the main theme in the last of those Brahms .... the musical phrase on the word "Liebe" is so lovely, that it's desperately hard to sing without getting choked up.

I remember also the first time I played a recording of the Dvorak B- cello concerto. Sat sobbing in the dark in the living room.

[Dryer lint]

mammoth mammaries

[Dryer lint]

;)

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looks like someones buildin in a flood plain major.

you may want to rethink that;)

[huisjen]

So Dutch, does this do it for you or do you really have a thing for body hair too?

http://haides.caltech.edu/~mcc/Photos/India_98/Kaziranga/N981220_023.jpg

Dan

[Dryer lint]

that aint a mammoth its an elephant ya dumb arse

[huisjen]

IIRC, the mammoths were more closely related to Indian elephants than African elephants are. So you just have a thing for body hair.

Dan

[Bob Adams]

What was in Tilghman Island? I was at Knapps Narrows in my boat a couple times last summer. As to what tugs at my heart, the thought of having to give up my beloved Enterprise after 14 years restoring her due to my job being Wal Marted out of existance. I hope to make it to Spring.

[Dryer lint]

of wal mart, didyouknow that the christian right wing nut jobs will be protesting them over the next couple of days?

maybe you can join them and drown your sorrows about not having the imagination to do what it takes to make it in the days of globalism, free trade, and information superhighways

[Bob Adams]

Dutch, take a flying leap, jerk.

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

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[Leon m]

Family and acts of selflessness and honor.

[uncas]

the log ticking along..Chuck..
Ya mean that funny little thing on a long line ya throw over the stern? LOL... Haven't used one for years...Shoiwing your age there.. well, some of us are as we know exactly what you were referring to.. LOL

[Phillip Allen]

There are many, many things which expand my soul...they are of equal importance except that the thrumming resonates on the circumstance

[Tylerdurden]

Pink Floyd, Animals. How many see it and most do not.

Racing a squall line back to the airport.

Green water over the bow, in a hurricane.

The power of love.

The un corrupted thoughts of a child.

True beauty, where it exists.

[Phillip Allen]

HEAR HEAR!

I Want

I want to see whales again...and porpoise...and a shark...and bioluminescence in water that’s dark.

I want to stand my watch at the helm and to feel the largeness of the sea and the smallness of me.

I want to look out on the circled horizon…and know it’s not changed for years upon years and Columbus, too, saw what I now hold my eyes on.

I fear to be tossed in my ship in the sea but fear more to be lost in the vessel that’s me.

[Tylerdurden]

Only a sailor understands these things Phillip.
Things are so much larger than ourselves. I am thankful to be a witness. Good words on day such as this.

[Harry Miller]

Sheila Jordan singing "You Are My Sunshine"

[uncas]

Tyler.. there are a few of us here even in the bilge...

Personally, I respect the sea.. I don't fear it.. I respect its ability to change in five minutes from a dead calm to 4' rollers. I respect the interaction between land, water and wind, and respect the forces of nature which hold you in the palm of its hand...

[Phillip Allen]

wish I could help with the fitting out of the new Uncas...I just want to see it evolve

[uncas]

Will see..what happens... Next week..
Yuo are always welcome to join me. I'll give you the worst watch.. 0200 to 0600... I hated that one.. :) Except for the sunrise.. LOL

[Tylerdurden]

wish I could help with the fitting out of the new Uncas...I just want to see it evolve

Ditto!

[uncas]

Tyler.. you too.. Umm if this goes through.. Gonna have to get Airlie to Maine and further west.. Would like it make it to the WBS. at Mystic...... next summer...... hint...

[Tylerdurden]

If the Rescue Minor is finished I will be your water taxi, Jamie

[Phillip Allen]

time-line?

[uncas]

Philip.. Too early to tell... WBS 30th June...
Lots to do between now and then.. if this goes through... Weather in NS.. gonna be cold down there in June......
So, nothing in concrete... can't be... a lot of work to be done too... a lot I know about... some I don't...
I'll have a better idea in the spring.. when I have more of an idea..
I have not bought her yet... LOL

little bit of a thread drift.. LOL

[Phillip Allen]

it's not thread drift...it's thread gunk-holing

[uncas]

gunk holing is good.. :)

[Tylerdurden]

gunk holing is good.. :)

Gunk holing tugs at the stings of my soul too. s

[Tar Devil]

Gunk holing tugs at the stings of my soul too. s

I love tidal creeks...

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[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Phil we got some tidal marshes 'round here ;)

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I love everything about my home port. From Foundry Cove

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To the early morning fog lifting off Storm King

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The mornings at Garrison Landing and the mooring fields.

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Ahhh but truly stirs my heart WoodenBoats

Sailing them hard

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Or just a lazy afternoon Ghosting along

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And restoring a clasic beauty back to her floating splendor and seeing her sit out on her mooring ;)

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[Phillip Allen]

To the early morning fog lifting off Storm King


Joe...is that splice what came with your boat...just curious as to why there's no thimble...

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

To the early morning fog lifting off Storm King


Joe...is that splice what came with your boat...just curious as to why there's no thimble...

Yea thats is the splice that came with it. I'm not sure what you think is a thimble but there is a metal loop inside. No problems with chafing and it works great.

God I miss sailing :(

[Larry P.]

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[Larry P.]

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[Tar Devil]

Where did the years go??

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[Phillip Allen]

Yea thats is the splice that came with it. I'm not sure what you think is a thimble but there is a metal loop inside. No problems with chafing and it works great.

God I miss sailing :(
I'm refering to the line of the up-haul. There seems to be some kind of snap-shackle (can't see on my version of the pic) thence to the eye-splice in the line leading up. I can't see a thimble there...

Hey, if it works then it works I was just wondering if this is normal or not. (it's a good looking splice)