{"id":3905,"date":"2013-09-02T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2013-09-03T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:44:17","slug":"the-sail-doctor-traditional-rigging-by-raven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"The Sail Doctor: Traditional Rigging by Raven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Way, hey, me hearties! Seems like every issue of SCA, I am desperately casting about for some new and scintillatin\u2019 yarn to tell ya. Often, writer\u2019s block just scuttles my creative butt. But, the Muses swam in today and got me thinking about nautical jewelry. No, not the glittery diamond constellation brooches my ol\u2019 Cousin Tony offers, but real, wooden blocks for running rigging.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bout time for the 37th annual Wooden Boat Festival <\/a>here in Port Townsend, Washington where wooden blocks are a community affair. I like that the NW Maritime Chandlery offers wooden blocks<\/a>, all the parts of which – as well as the assembly – are local.<\/p>\n

Funny, ain\u2019 it, how something like wooden blocks which used to be the ONLY kinda blocks have now become almost an extravagance, a kind of nautical jewelry.<\/p>\n

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However, like other traditional aspects of sail and rigging, there is still virtue in the old ways. Obviously, nothing saltier than a wooden block! Moreover, in terms of practicality, not only do wooden blocks endure; but, they can be taken apart and any of the components replaced.. <\/p>\n

Far as that goes, matey, you can just go to work whittlin\u2019 out yer own blocks and strop em\u2019 yerself with rope grommets.. Now, there\u2019s some really rustic nautical jewelry! Real personal and homemade; very much in the home brew tradition of seat o\u2019 the pants small craft self\u2013reliance and know how. Since you are getting this by email, I figger you can get online. So, take a gander at the instructions out there for making up wooden blocks! <\/a> <\/p>\n

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Well, I\u2019m \u2018bout chock a block here haulin\u2019 this little ditty up; so lemme cast off by sayin\u2019 that if ya got a nice, salty, small boat, I recommend treatin\u2019 her and yerself to some real nautical jewelry. Heave sheet or haul a halyard on a wooden block! A wooden block; blimey, that\u2019s the kinda block that makes this writer\u2019s hair light up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way, hey, me hearties! Seems like every issue of SCA, I am desperately casting about for some new and scintillatin\u2019 yarn to tell ya. Often, writer\u2019s block just scuttles my creative butt. But, the Muses swam in today and got me thinking about nautical jewelry. No, not the glittery diamond constellation brooches my ol\u2019 Cousin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallcraftadvisor.com\/our-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}