Back in the mid-1980's I worked for a couple of seasons aboard a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, dredging for oysters in the last fleet of working wooden sailing vessels in the U.S. At one point I asked the skipper if I could spend a day aboard as photographer rather than crew, and he graciously agreed. A fill-in took my spot on deck while I wandered around with my Pentax. The resulting pictures were developed and put in a box, and I promptly forgot them for 28 years. I stumbled upon them recently and decided to scan and upload them as a photographic record of a way of life that is pretty much gone. Those of you with an interest in history or traditional wooden boats may enjoy the photos.
Hmm, well I don't wonder about that exactly, because it's hard to imagine a world without computers at this point. But I did think about staying on the water for a time. Economically, though, it's difficult.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 23.5 ms ] threadDo you ever wonder what kind of work you'd be doing today if there were no computers?
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