Monday afternoon smoke. HU Haddes Best Irish in my early 1950 Kirsten with a meerschaum bowl. This is considered a transition pipe as it was made between the original design and the current design. It was made between 1951 and 1957.
Getting ready to load up some Sutliff Creme Brulee in a CAO Cavalier... This completes my humble little meerschaum collection. I will now start my rotation over again through March. FYI - I haven't said it, but I always do 1 1/2 to 2 bowls a sitting. I repack and relight while the bowl is still warm, and in my experience, the 2nd bowl smokes as good as the 1st...
Now I find myself trying to imagine my first ship, WLV-604, the Columbia River Lightship, done up as a meerschaum pipe. Nope! not working visually for me.
@AnantaAndroscoggin I lived in Astoria for a while and have seen the ship, was working as a commercial fisherman out there.
Crazy duty station to be stuck on the Columbia River Bar, bet you have been through some rough weather / seas, particularly in the winter.
Was out there after finishing a stint in the navy; and I will never forget my first trip out over the bar on an ebb tide during a storm on a 100 footer.
It was my first experience with seasickness and man was I sick, I didn't feel right for 2 days.
The Columbia River Bar is definitely a killer. I was in the Coast Guard Public Affairs office from April 1975 until December 1977 and it seemed like a boat and/or lives were lost on the bar monthly. In 1976 (I think) the Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat School was doing nighttime navigation training about 1-1/2 miles upriver from the bar. A rogue wave crashed on the stern of the 41-footer used for the training and flipped it over. Three Coast Guardsmen didn't make it out. Again, this was over a mile up from the mouth of the river and was considered a safe distance from the rough waters of the bar.
The don't call the Columbia River Bar the "Graveyard of the Pacific" for nothing.
Didn't post this one yesterday. It's the last meer in my collection that I smoke. I have one more that has a hairline crack between the bowl and stummel that is just a display piece now. This is a churchwarden by Servi.
Today I restarted the meerschaum rotation with a bowl of Kramer's Extra Smooth.
Restarted my meerschaum rotation yesterday with two pipes. The CAO Corncob was filled with HU Chinas Heaven and the one on the right was filled with Crumble Cake.
Well, it’s time for the dragon to fly. Smoking some C&D “Virginia Flake” in THE DRAGON 🐉. I wish he could blow fire from his maw🐲. 1964, My birth year, Chinese Year Of The Dragon, good year😬 Side note: This pipe is NOT a clencher.
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Its lighter than it looks and that is about a 4 inch stem. When I had a longer churchwarden stem on it, I couldn’t clench it.
This completes my humble little meerschaum collection. I will now start my rotation over again through March.
FYI - I haven't said it, but I always do 1 1/2 to 2 bowls a sitting. I repack and relight while the bowl is still warm, and in my experience, the 2nd bowl smokes as good as the 1st...
OMG, that is a priceless work of art.
Now THAT'S a pipe!
Some 50/50 VG Gold and Black Cavendish/Tinderbox Captain Spice in a Rhodesian...
The Columbia River Bar is definitely a killer. I was in the Coast Guard Public Affairs office from April 1975 until December 1977 and it seemed like a boat and/or lives were lost on the bar monthly. In 1976 (I think) the Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat School was doing nighttime navigation training about 1-1/2 miles upriver from the bar. A rogue wave crashed on the stern of the 41-footer used for the training and flipped it over. Three Coast Guardsmen didn't make it out. Again, this was over a mile up from the mouth of the river and was considered a safe distance from the rough waters of the bar.
The don't call the Columbia River Bar the "Graveyard of the Pacific" for nothing.
This is a churchwarden by Servi.
Today I restarted the meerschaum rotation with a bowl of Kramer's Extra Smooth.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/AKB/
Why not BOTH?...
Side note: This pipe is NOT a clencher.
Ain’t I though🙂