So yesterday evening while recovering from a day on the star setting gear and an afternoon of shore work prepping gear for the water, I decided that my new gage weather watch jacket by Grundens needed some personalization. I spread it out on the long kitchen table and sat back in the chair gazing at the canvas before me. As I sat and thought, I remembered a conversation with a friend who had fished off Monhegan Island. Monhegan, is an island off the coast of Maine with a year round community of about 60 people. Their lobster season kicks off on December 1st each year. Anyways, as a means of marking his oil gear, this fisherman stenciled the bones of our human body on the back of his bibs and rain coat, giving him the appearance of a skeleton from behind.
I liked the idea of some bones on the jacket but my artistic talent is severely limited. How about a nice old battered pirate flag?
“there comes a time in every rightly constructed boys life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for buried treasure”
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