How about them sharks off the coast of Florida... Just in time for Spring Break...
Hundreds of them... That's a hoot...
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Phenomenon
We are now at 183 Current members in the group. 11 New members this month alone and we have not heard from any of our new members. There is this phenomenon here on MSN Groups I like to call "hit and run": People stop in to a group and like it enough to join but never return or become active.... What is up with that? We need to give the cast of "Ghost Hunters" a call...
Not Complaning.... Just an observation.
So what up with yous?
MSN Nic Real Name Home Port Posts
Boatbuilder ? ? 0
CBA ? ? 0
DiscoBay ? ? 0
Hazenk1 ? ? 0
MeWolf1 ? ? 0
MOboat says Marty? ? 0
norfolk_nick ? ? 0
Oh_That_Marty ? ? 0
Riamjoni1 Richard? ? 0
rtw05 Dennis? ? 0
Steve Steve? ? 0
-Kruez-
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Stevenson Vacationer
I just received the plans for a Vacationer 21' sailboat. Do any of you have experience with these boats?
Rev. James L. Lingenfelter
Psa 25:4-25 Teach me your ways, O LORD; make them known to me.
Teach me to live according to your truth, for you are my God, who saves me. I always trust in you.
Psa 25:4-25 Teach me your ways, O LORD; make them known to me.
Teach me to live according to your truth, for you are my God, who saves me. I always trust in you.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
River Boat plans
Hi I moved to the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua on a river called the Rio San Juan. I need to build a small skiff type boat that would use a 10 to 25 hp outboard motor to fish and get up and down the river, something light because gas is expensive. Lots of good hardwood here, planks mostly. Thinking of building a kayak also. Would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks Darren
Sunday, March 13, 2005
The Old Canoe
Not just another sappy sob story.
I have a 1906 Carleton Canoe I am restoring in my garage. It's has ash frames and cedar planks. I removed the canvas to repair a couple of busted frames, holes in the cedar and a cracked breast hook/deck. Someone had painted the inside so I am painstakingly removing the paint with a heat gun. Somebody really cobbled this thing up by drilling into her gunnels for a side mount outboard bracket and filled the bow and stern cavity with flotaion foam. I remoced all but a few specks of the foam allready... I am looking for inspiration to finsh her up...
My dilema is to:
1) Fix her up and use her as a laker (to brittle for much else).
2) Fix her up as a hanger/display: Something pretty to hang from the ceiling in the family room... Whether the wife likes it or not. This could be with canvas or without...
3) Someone suggested cutting her in half and making a couple of book shelves... (This person would still be in the trunk if I had a weapon at the time...LOL) However, considering her condition this might be a possability...
What would you do?
The following is my inspiration to save her from the burn barrel.
"The sappy part":
"The sappy part":
The Old Canoe
By George Marsh
Scribner's Magazine, October 1908
Scribner's Magazine, October 1908
My seams gape wide so I'm tossed aside
To rot on a lonely shore
While the leaves and mould like a shroud enfold,
For the last of my trails are o'er;
But I float in dreams on Northland streams
That never again I'll see,
As I lie on the marge of the old portage
With grief for company.
To rot on a lonely shore
While the leaves and mould like a shroud enfold,
For the last of my trails are o'er;
But I float in dreams on Northland streams
That never again I'll see,
As I lie on the marge of the old portage
With grief for company.
When the sunset gilds the timbered hills
That guard Timagami,
And the moonbeams play on far James Bay
By the brink of the frozen sea,
In phantom guise my Spirit flies
As the dream blades dip and swing
Where the waters flow from the Long Ago
In the spell of the beck'ning spring.
Do the cow-moose call on the Montreal
When the first frost bites the air,
And the mists unfold from the red and gold
That the autumn ridges wear?
When the white falls roar as they did of yore
On the Lady Evelyn,
Do the square-tail leap from the black pools deep
Where the pictured rocks begin?
Oh! the fur-fleets sing on Timiskaming
As the ashen paddles bend,
And the crews carouse at Rupert House
At the sullen winter's end;
But my days are done where the lean wolves run,
And I ripple no more the path
Where the gray geese race cross the red moon's face
From the white wind's Arctic wrath.
Tho' the death fraught way from the Saguenay
To the storied Nipigon
Once knew me well, now a crumbling shell
I watch the years roll on,
While in memory's haze I live the days
That forever are gone from me,
As I rot on the marge of the old portage
With grief for company.
-Kruez-
Your thoughts are requested...
to Mason Clipper project
Hi couple of question's
Did you do anything to the teak fore deck and did you paint her you'r self,nice job by the way
,bogsdolics.
grawl members project
Hi kruez
Just looked at the grawl members project look's great thank's again
Bogsdolics.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Gentleman's Racer and Lots of pictures
building a gentlemans racer, see the web album..Muskoka boats, first 3 pictures
also check out my web site, http://www.portcarlingboats.com
hope you enjoy the pictures and the site,
my boats
http://uk.msnusers.com/SAILIINGDINGHY picture's of some of my projects a wooden canoe I build from scrach, my first boat shared boat a cabin cruiser, our 2nd cabin cruiser,the trailer I built,the dinghy I done up,this year I am going to sail [clear the water ways]
Friday, March 4, 2005
Boat builders needed
I am looking for small boat builders who would like to build some boats to sell. For more info check out my site www.fancyboats.com. That is a great looking canoe!
Thursday, March 3, 2005
Alexandria Seaport Foundation
The timber framed floating shop and office upstairs at Alexandria Seaport Foundation
I stopped by the Alexadria Seaport Foundation's Community Boat building Program the summer of 2004. Here are a few great pics of the facility... Check them out...
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