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Harvey Golden

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Author, illustrator, researcher, bibliophile, builder of watercraft. Original/owned content only. NW Oregon. Smash the patriarchy. Tutta la vita è mar. My books and kayaks at www.traditionalkayaks.com

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · May 26

Be that one cloud.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 14h

First edited movie-- highlights in time-lapse and slo-mo capturing north-west Oregon's fickle weather, surprising wildlife, and captains-courageous. All shot on the little John Day River, Astoria. #oregon #pnw #weather

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 14h

Where the gloom of the night is brightened by the comings and goings on Oregon State Highway 30: The little John Day River, Astoria. #pnw

Up-river night photo on the little John Day River, Astoria, Oregon. Low clouds are illuminated by highway traffic, while to the right a cozy cabin gleams warmly, tucked beneath a shoreline of towering spruce and hemlock. Might be an alder or two up there as well.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 1d

Full-size replica of a Sugpiaq two-person kayak. Built from a scale drawing in "Kayaks of Alaska" by Harvey Golden. This wooden frame will be covered with cloth for use. Original (seal or sea-lion covered) is at the Musée de la Marine, Paris, who received it in 1922. #kayaks #Alaska #boatbuilding

A two-person kayak frame-- a historical design used by the Sugpiaq of South central Alaska (Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Prince William Sound vicinities). These were used for hunting and general travel. The frame is comprised of many strips of wood lashed together, and it is all painted red. Two circular openings on the deck denote the cockpits. The frame would have been covered in seal or sea-lion hides, but this will be covered in cloth, and then waterproofed with varnish. The kayak is just over 20 foot 6 inches long and 28 inches wide.

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 2d

Nice to see this! Glad you saw the launching!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8d

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 10d

E/V Cormorant in Warren Slough, Knappa, Oregon. #boats

A white wooden electric-powered cabin boat rests at anchor at dusk. The water is gently rippled, reflecting the clear pale sky and the spruce lined shoreline behind the boat.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 12d

This morning's sunrise time-lapse got photo-bombed!
#sunrise #pnw #birds

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 12d

Third time's the charm....

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 13d

It’s a compelling book— I hope they still teach it there. I’m writing a screenplay for it right now. ;-)

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 13d

"Ship Erection," 1942. Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction #shipbuilding #boats #book_covers

Red paper cover of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Public Instruction Bulletin 349 of June 1942: "Ship Erection." Below the title is a line drawing of a portion of a ship's structure being lifted into place; staging structures frame the image along with blocking, shores, and dunnage. Below the image is text reading "Prepared by the Division of Industrial Education in cooperation with Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Below this is the publication information, given at the top.

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 13d

Shipfitter Handbook, published by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Tacoma, 1944. #ships #shipbuilding #Tacoma

Light green paper cover of "Shipfitter Handbook." Cloth strip glued to spine; photo center, B&W, of a Commencement Bay class Escort Carrier being slid down the ways-- launched-- with bunting on the bow. Text below title is "Todd Pacific Shipyards Inc. Tacoma Division. Published by Training Dept. Revised June, 1944." Former owner's name hand written: R. B. Price.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 13d

A summer past on the lower Columbia River. #photography #boats #oregon #nature

Cirrus and alto-cumulus skies over a tree lined bay, with grassy shores. A white wooden skiff rests in shallow calm water.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 17d

One was the war on cancer.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 21d

Cover of W. E. Swanson's "Modern Shipfitter's Handbook" (1941) one of many technical books published by Cornell Maritime Press during the early 1940s as the U.S. was gearing up its wartime production. More in Alt. #ships #shipbuilding #nautical #WWII

Dust jacket of a technical manual published by Cornell Maritime Press in 1941 (2nd edition). Titled "Modern Shipfitter's Handbook" by W. E. Swanson, master ship fitter. Light buff text in maroon diagonal stripe has title/author along with sub-text reading "Today welded ships have taken over the ways. Here is the only practical book to show with over 200 working drawings how they are built. Buff backgrounded upper left shows oblique view of a merchantman's wheelhouse and stack, while opposite corner shows lower bulkhead framing of a ship under construction.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 21d

Happy 250 U.S.N.!

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 22d

You can tell it’s fake because he got the year right.

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 22d

That's Murray, second from left in the first pic.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · 22d

A Rower's View. On the Lower Columbia River, some summer past. #photography #boats #pnw #rivers More in Alt-Text.

Slightly dispersed mackerel skies, bright blue behind the hundreds of small cumulus puffs. Horizon is cottonwoods of Miller Sands on right, with the high ground of the Washington shore, forested with spruce and hemlock; center is the hill near the former town of Brookfield. The hill forms a point and is named after the African American Oregon Pioneer, Wilkes Expedition ship-jumper, and Antarctic explorer James Saules (Wha...? Look him up!!!!). In the foreground are my ten little piggies on the rear coaming of a hand-built wooden row boat, based on a Howard Chapelle drawing of a historic 'Garvey' from New Jersey, ca. 1900; Garvey's are general purpose gotten' around boats suitable for cargo, and in smaller forms such as this, for bird hunting. The Green-tipped oars are drawn in and resting on the aft deck of the boat. The wooden stern rail has a notch cut in it for sculling (just behind my right big toe . . . I forget which piggy that is).

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · Sep 29

Sunny day on the little John Day River, Astoria. #Oregon #pnw #rivers

The sun upper center, with cirrus and blue skies above a hillside with mature Sitka Spruce and Western Red Cedar. Middle is a river bank with green grass, willows, and other shrubs. Foreground is the river, reflecting all of the above. The river is slightly rippled from wind.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · Sep 28

Hong Kong bulk carrier "Great Mind" off Tongue Point, Astoria.
#astoria #columbia_river #ships

Blue-gray skies and blue-gray water with a dark blue timbered horizon in the distance (Washington). Center is a ship illuminated by the sun poking through the clouds. The ship has red bottom, showing quite high up the sides, indicating she is empty. The upper hull is black, with the superstructure gleaming white on the left. The white is reflecting in the water below.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · Sep 26

I didn’t lose my hair, it just moved to my back and nostrils.

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · Sep 26

Astoria Sunrise and Retreat of the Fog. #pnw #timelapse #weather

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · Sep 23

The morning push and pull between the sun and fog. Astoria, OR. #timelapse #pnw #oregon

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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · Sep 22

That’s not how Jesus rolls.

Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · Sep 20

After 50 years kicking around western Oregon, I have never seen such a large garter snake: 32" long, markedly thicker than my thumb. It has the pattern of 'yellow-stripe/red dashes' only the stripes are robins' egg blue and the dashes are brown. Astoria, Oregon. #wildlife #snakes #nature #pnw

A garter snake in a grassy swamp. The stripes are light blue on this one.