Any other Bowyers or Sailors?

[Toxophilite]

I'm curious have many other tube amp building Sailors or Bowyers/Archers there are out there??

[sluckey]

My wife and I raced catamarans back in the late '80s and '90s. Mostly on the gulf coast between Biloxi and Tampa. We did a lot of weekend regattas, especially in Pensacola, Navarre, and Ft. Walton Beach. Even fun sailed in Miami and Key West a few times. Still got our Prindle 19. Fully race rigged. Wanna buy it?   

[John]

I can't call myself an archer by any stretch, but some years back I bought an old Bear compound bow. Mighta been one of the first, or at least early compounds. Shot it bare bow for a while, and really enjoyed it. Archery clears the mind, it's almost Zen like.


Then, I refurbished an old Harmony amp..... 

[Toxophilite]

A sailor annd an archer
I have a little 16' full keeled double ender
I suspect your sailboat is a little far away and likely on the lower side of the 49th parallel !


I make traditional one piece wooden bows ala european and first nations
It is very zen-like and all around pleasing
I do sailing mostly in the summer spring and fall, archery all year round and monkey with amps in the winter!

[sluckey]

I make traditional one piece wooden bows

Now I understand your name!   

I did some hunting and bow fishing as a teenager and into my mid 20s. I had a Bear (think it was a Kodiak model???) bow. Nothing fancy but was a decent hunting bow for the times if you could string it!

This pic is from 1972. It was spawning season for garfish. My brother and I were standing on opposite sides of a narrow river channel. This big female and two smaller males were working their way upstream. We had agreed earlier that if more than one fish came up the channel, we would each pick the closest target. Ha! That didn't happen. When this threesome came between us we both took aim for the big female. That explains the two arrows. I had forgotten about those days until just now. Thanks for jogging my memory.

[Willabe]

That's a good sized gar.

Nasty fish. I caught several on a hook and line and they snap at you when you take them out of the water.



                  Brad   

[jjasilli]

I'm not a bowyer, but I do make my own arrows.  I'm the archery Chairman at the Metropolitan Rod & Gun Club in Brooklyn, NY.  I'm a certified NYS Hunter Ed Safety Instructor for bowhunting & firearm hunting-- to teach the course needed to get a hunting license .  Also a member of New York Bowhunters; the NRA and a certified NRA Range Safety Officer; and a member of the NYSRPA (New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc'n).  This Sunday I'm taking a course sponsored by USA Archery to become a certified Level 2 archery coach.


I hunt with recurve & longbow.

[Toxophilite]

Cool stuff, I missed some of these replys
Thanks!

That''s a hell of a fish S.luckey!!
i wanted to try bow fishing but it's right up there with spear fishing as far as licensing goes and I think there's maybe one or two fish you're allowed to bow hunt...and they're far away!!!


I really like making arrows, it's a little less fraught with the uncertainty bow-making often entails
Making arrow is very crafty and meditative and you generally guaranteed a pleasing, successful and lovely result.
Making bows can sometimes result explosively  in firewood right near the end of many hours of patient and sometimes intense woodworking.

[shooter]

sailor, navy 6 years, then 20yrs later a 70's version of a '36? snipe dingy, loved the rush when you're hiked to the boats limit.  I did built a pneumatic bow, no fletches, just aluminum shaft, knock cut off and field point, that fit outside another aluminum "barrel" propelled by 500 psi! at 20' it would bust through 1/2" plywood, at 30' it became unstable and cartwheeled.  sold the boat, scrapped the aluminum, went back to making tube amps 

[Toxophilite]

Sailing can be a lot of fun
Especially close hauled,on a beat, heeled right over, very exciting, I agree
Mostly fun, sometimes peaceful...  and occasionally white knuckle frightening (usually weather induced)
Funny about the pneumatic bow,  I built a spring operated unit that would shoot an arrow out of a PVC tube
My brother recently built an arbalast...it's a little frightening. Crossbows remind me of rat traps!
Nothing quite like shooting a traditional one piece wooden bow in my opinion, so simple, beautiful, and effective.
The 10,000 years of history behind the concept is cool too, sailing is like that as well.

[shooter]

pneumatic bow

I spent the '90s working with other ppl's kids, so to keep their interest, we made, weapons, explosives, rock-climbing, etc, the "fun" stuff!  I showed them physics without math, now the kids have their own kids and still look back on those days as the best *education* they ever had and 70% are college grads in everything from engineering to accounting, but most say they probably won't *teach* their kids what they learned 

[Toxophilite]

Weaklings!!   It sounds like a blast.
I looked after my nephew for several years, weapons were of course a must!, as was fire and general adventure etc. I was officially known as 'the bad influence'. He's still taking fencing and is into collecting/making/sharpening knives but it looks like he's leaning towards journalism. His mom's (my sister)an engineer so that probably has something to do with it.

[shooter]

Weaklings

Ya, glad I'm getting old, this new world is boring, carrying your phone and tv around, EVERYWHERE!  The sad thing, they now have access to the *worlds knowledge* and most are clueless!  How does that work?

[Toxophilite]

I can't abide cell phones though I can see situations when they could be useful. I've never bothered to own one. I've seen to many people walking around on beautiful days staring at their hand, or out for dinner and everybody's on a phone, or even walking in the ^$#^$# forest??!!! It's more of a twitchy habit for most rather than a real resource. Some people use them well though. Mostly they are used for superficial pursuits. It is disappointing