John Storrow

The future is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives. Dear self: don’t forget about the future. Imagine turning your body a hundred and eighty degrees toward the next model boat voyage, and the one after that, etc. On the other hand, it’s fun to remember stuff that already happened, like one of the first times you carried your 17 pound, four foot long model boat, plus tall mast and sails, on the MBTA bus from Boston to Redds Pond in Marblehead Ma. Do you remember what happened when you were waiting to get on the bus to go home? The clouds looked rather dark and hairy, like they were about to burst. Right at the exact, and I do mean exact, moment you got on the bus, and the door shut behind you, it started raining like cats and dogs.

Dear self- You know what your tedious day job is. A whole other book three inches thick could be written about your tedious day job. Okay, let’s just say it consists of endless hours of waking and walking through the galleries in a world class Art museum. Needless to say, dear self, you started your tedious day job six U.S. presidents ago. Yeah, hard to believe isn’t it? On the other side of the coin, you did a hell of a lot of Model boat sailing In those thirty odd years. To figure out how many miles of scale model sized ocean that is, would require a certain amount of math. On average, one trip to the model boat pond per week, about 24 voyages per season, 2 hours each voyage, times 28 seasons. That’s 672 voyages, which comes out to 1,344 hours of Model boat sailing Distance depends on speed so the number of miles will never be known.

Look, (Dear me) You’re going to write a book To inspire people to make model boats. It’s going to be all about how most people think model boats Tip over and sink, and therefore should not be taken seriously. Same reason Kids toys aren’t taken seriously, only guess what! Model boats don’t tip over and sink Unless you leave a hole in the bottom, and/or cut off the keel, which makes them pretty magical in my opinion. It’s also going to describe in exact detail, the many ways model boats can be made. How Servos are installed, what kind of batteries to use, how to make the keel, all the necessary details. But why would anybody want a book like that? I guess it doesn’t matter, somebody might like it, certainly not everyone. Does every book need to appeal to everyone? Nope.