Back in the mid-1970s, Jerry Husted was building a lovely ketch-rigged sailboat called the Ingrid 38 in Woodinville, Washington, a semirural community east of Seattle. Along with others, he was sitting in long gas station lines worrying about rising pump prices and fuel shortages.
Finish By 50
Written by Sally Bee BrownBoatbuilding is a lot like writing. Plenty of people say they want to do it, but few ever take a big project from conception to completed reality. Peter Poanessa, 51, of Keene, New Hampshire, took his dream the full distance, and the boat he created is as captivating as a Patrick O'Brian sea saga. But here's the kicker: almost nothing went awry in the building process. In all my years of writing, this was a first. How could I tell a story without anguish, mishaps, time delays, or bankruptcy? This guy didn't make it easy for me.
