Chronological Title List Created Contents The Problem and the Idea
050101 How I got the idea of living on a dhow on Lake Victoria 050101 Finding the right town to build a dhow - but the wrong shipyard 050101 A second round along the shipyards with second thoughts 050502 An adventurous inquiry into mysteriously long delays in wood delivery 050509 Mysterious wood and screw price quotations and hard too believe stories 050511 Deadline for wood delivery violated, client with malaria on drip in hospital 050513 A beautiful tropical wood, given up by the wood boring lake insects 050524 Finally: wood! Reassuring enthusiasm among my people 050804 Pictures of my dhow in statu nascendi 050809 Working like nuts and amazing progress on dhows and Kiswahili 050831 The Desert Of Indolence, Lies And False Promises 050831 To stop a yard doing nothing, it should be broke first 050901 Kees will give me my money "end of next week" Kamkala Soap Home 050907 My dhow money involuntarily invested in the wrong ship yard... 050922 Mwanza dhows in different sizes and styles. 051003 How to put African economic theory in practice? 051004 An End To Wetting The Wrong Ship Yard 051016 How my box on the ear of a little thug put my guests off and left the hired dhow and its crew for me alone 051101 Lawyers into play, a new contract with details, time table and witness, and money paid (the end of drying) 051117 Dhow Yard boss Daniel enters the orange zone without further delay 051120 A reverend arrives on the scene of the dhow yard 051126 Angel founders and falls: The reverend's carpentry work halted: wrong screws, no wood, no money, fear of imprisonment at the ship yard 051130 Arrest By Immigration Officers Ends in Laudatio 051212 Dhow inspection 2: The thing moves like a snake! 051228 They built me a matchbox 051231 Good Luck: hitting on a threat that makes them work. Amazing ertia! 060113 The author as acting shipyard boss. This suspiciously looks like working 060120 In which even just drilling is a problem, the author needs explanation of the African meaning of rain, and brings the town's best shipyard's planer back in operation. 060125 A bit late for laying a keel....Two teams at work, money down 060128 Shire Polyhedron Mounted 060204 A Crane Or Not A Crane, That Is The Question 060205 The Dhow Carried To Water On Two Hand Charts: A Work Of God 060207 The Gate Of Heaven 060211 A Hand Made Sail, Christian Ground Use Fee Avoided 060212 And renewed immigration harassment, and making the palm mat sunroof 060220 Fitting The Deck Planks 060221 Arrested At Gunpoint and Jailed by Mwanza Police On Request Of Mwanza Immigration 060228 Released by police but "keep your cell phone switched on", agreeable company of a remarkable German couple 060303 Chief Mwanza Immigration Officer, District Commissioner and probably Regional Commissioner all unaware.... 060309 Back in Jinja. Fax, Email, SMS and phone to Retrieve the dhow. Computer breakdown, medicine withdrawal symptoms, gadgets and golf. No boat. 060319 Boarding My Dhow At The Tanzania Border Lake Shore: My "Backpackers' camp between Masaka and the Tanzanian border 060323 Dessert of the TZ menu: operation of Tanzania Police "Mr. Malima & His Camp": kidnapped by TZ police, ransom demanded 060326 Final Laps Of The 300 Km Lake Trip Of Unfinished Dhow 060401 Wet Feet, Wet Neck. "The job is finished": TZ crew out. 060412 Dry Feet Wet Neck. "GT" Ben unleashed. Buying A Canoe, Big NEMA's, Other Defecational Incidents And The Advent Of Carpenter Jonathan 060417 Dry Feet Not Too Wet Neck. BPP Introduced, Mooring Off Shore 060429 Rather Wet Neck Again. It Pleases The GOOD LORD To Haunt The Commander With Diseases. The Advent Of Philemon
060510 Just A Drip. An African Carpenter
060519 Just A Drip. Dessert Of The GOOD LORD: One Of His More Potent VAC's
060522 Technical Data In Final State 060530 How They Do In Their Specialty 060613 Killing the BPP
061020 Deck tarpaulin, "bathroom", Steering deck roof, solar panel capacity, electric bailing, waterproof storage 061227 In love with a tree