Chief and I: A Concrete Dream

As a young boy, the author met a retired schooner captain by chance. They both admired an abandoned one-hundred-foot schooner hull on a sandbar near the captain''s home in Tampa Bay. The captain assured the boy that the hull could be salvaged and repaired to sail again, but it never was.

Years later the author remembered the vision that the captain had about rebuilding the hull. The author was work...