The Twenty Year Construction of Bradna Rose

     A Schooner For East Texas

     After twenty years of building, John Vardiman completed his boat and saw it delivered to the Gulf Coast and planted in the water for the first time. Dr Vardiman was fifty-five years old when he started cutting oak trees to process into beams, timbers, and plained lumber for to construct his 41' 6" 37,000lb sailing vessel. The Bradna Rose was built  using G. Alden's Malabar II design as a guide. The full write-up is available in Wooden Boat Magazine from June 2014, www.woodenboat.com and here is a video story by Bob Phillips of Texas Country Reporter fame 

El Niño

Behold! An excellent article which explains the El Niño phenomenon and the effects it produces on a global scale. It appears to be in full swing this season...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/11/-sp-el-nino-weather-2014

Shepherd's Chapel

     I have long studied with the Murray men from Shepherd's Chapel Church in Gravette, Arkansas, some seven years at least. Recently I turned on my old c-band satellite receiver to find no signal from Shepherd's Chapel. A visit to their website solved the situation, it seems the c-band feed ended back in August. Every type of feed is available though on the internet from their site:  http://www.shepherdschapel.com/index.htm
on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwX0AEx-qIhQ9kgtlNhyIXw