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Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife
by Lin Pardey
Lin Pardey's picture as she's painting Taleisin's name graces an interview about her memoir titled Bull Canyon in SAIL magazine's Sept 2011 issue.
Photo published in SAIL, courtesy Lin Pardey.
Lin and Larry Pardey lived and built their 29-foot engine-free Taleisin in Bull Canyon, California. A more unlikely place for two life-long blue water sailors to build a boat would have been pretty hard to find!
I thoroughly enjoyed [a:Lin Pardey|206208|Lin Pardey|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1297432312p2/206208.jpg]'s memoir of how she and her husband [a:Larry Pardey|206207|Larry Pardey|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg] made their home and built their wooden yacht Taleisin up a dirt road in a remote canyon north east of Lake Elsinore in Southern California. The efforts of the two leave their mark on the canyon, its residents, and the reader in a myriad of ways.
Lin's account is well-remembered. She both respects and is perplexed by her new neighbors, people who have been living off the grid and away from city life. Many of their challenges become her own as she weathers through the canyon's flooding, fires, intense summer heat, and pressure to develop.
All the while she is examining her own life as a daughter, wife, writer and adventurer. She shares her thoughts about her goals, her relationships and her work in such a way that the reader comes to know her way of living, to appreciate it, maybe even to envy it.
It is not the life you might expect. Lin notices and describes the tensions of reconciling her own individuality, marital role and self-reliance with the feminism of the times. She examines the trade offs of her adventurous life, alternative career, and social nature with her need to be ashore, take time alone, and be productive. Lin shares hard won lessons here that will reward any reader -male or female, married or single, landlubber or devoted ocean-goer.
To bastardize [a:Lance Armstrong|1544|Lance Armstrong|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1213137491p2/1544.jpg] "It's not about the boat!" but with Lin's help, Larry sure does build a hell of a boat up in that canyon.
Taleisin
Taleisin will eventually take the pair through the oceans of the world for she has now voyaged– 65,000 miles: sailing westward from California through Pacific, followed by two voyages from New Zealand to Australia and return. Then through Cook Straits of New Zealand to Sydney, south to Tasmania, westward through Australian bight to Indian Ocean, South Africa, Brazil, Ireland, England, Scotland and Norway. East coast of US, then south to Argentina and westward around Cape Horn to Chile.
My favorite quote about the Pardeys?
"They have built and sailed my uncle
Lyle's boats all over the world . . .
I own all their books and you should too!"
Michael J. Hess 2008
Lucky for us, Lin and Larry have written many books about their lifetime of voyaging and on the Pardey's website they post regularly with both a travelogue and practical tips for sailors.
Note: I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads' First Reads Giveaways.
I pre-ordered a copy from Paracay, the publisher too because as soon as I saw this title on goodreads I knew I had to read it as soon as it came out -whether I won a copy or not!
Photo published in SAIL, courtesy Lin Pardey.
Lin and Larry Pardey lived and built their 29-foot engine-free Taleisin in Bull Canyon, California. A more unlikely place for two life-long blue water sailors to build a boat would have been pretty hard to find!
I thoroughly enjoyed [a:Lin Pardey|206208|Lin Pardey|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1297432312p2/206208.jpg]'s memoir of how she and her husband [a:Larry Pardey|206207|Larry Pardey|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg] made their home and built their wooden yacht Taleisin up a dirt road in a remote canyon north east of Lake Elsinore in Southern California. The efforts of the two leave their mark on the canyon, its residents, and the reader in a myriad of ways.
Lin's account is well-remembered. She both respects and is perplexed by her new neighbors, people who have been living off the grid and away from city life. Many of their challenges become her own as she weathers through the canyon's flooding, fires, intense summer heat, and pressure to develop.
All the while she is examining her own life as a daughter, wife, writer and adventurer. She shares her thoughts about her goals, her relationships and her work in such a way that the reader comes to know her way of living, to appreciate it, maybe even to envy it.
It is not the life you might expect. Lin notices and describes the tensions of reconciling her own individuality, marital role and self-reliance with the feminism of the times. She examines the trade offs of her adventurous life, alternative career, and social nature with her need to be ashore, take time alone, and be productive. Lin shares hard won lessons here that will reward any reader -male or female, married or single, landlubber or devoted ocean-goer.
To bastardize [a:Lance Armstrong|1544|Lance Armstrong|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1213137491p2/1544.jpg] "It's not about the boat!" but with Lin's help, Larry sure does build a hell of a boat up in that canyon.
Taleisin
Taleisin will eventually take the pair through the oceans of the world for she has now voyaged– 65,000 miles: sailing westward from California through Pacific, followed by two voyages from New Zealand to Australia and return. Then through Cook Straits of New Zealand to Sydney, south to Tasmania, westward through Australian bight to Indian Ocean, South Africa, Brazil, Ireland, England, Scotland and Norway. East coast of US, then south to Argentina and westward around Cape Horn to Chile.
My favorite quote about the Pardeys?
"They have built and sailed my uncle
Lyle's boats all over the world . . .
I own all their books and you should too!"
Michael J. Hess 2008
Lucky for us, Lin and Larry have written many books about their lifetime of voyaging and on the Pardey's website they post regularly with both a travelogue and practical tips for sailors.
Note: I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads' First Reads Giveaways.
I pre-ordered a copy from Paracay, the publisher too because as soon as I saw this title on goodreads I knew I had to read it as soon as it came out -whether I won a copy or not!