2025 Devlin Snow Goose Thread
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Outstanding!
Just think, your 25% done.
Pictures just to keep the post from being fully boring.
Took a week off to be with friends in Pawley's Island, SC, but getting back on it. Got the inside sanded and prepped yesterday, and epoxied and finished interior filets and glass in the nose section. Will target the long central hull joint tomorrow and hopefully get longitudinal bulkhead pieces for the rear section cut as well.
The wetlander bottom was slick enough that moving the boat outside and sanding in it caused it to shift rearward about 6", so also got some retainers added to the back of the strongback.
Henry,
Are you not glad Tod and I freed you from the disillusionment of finishing this year?
Make it pretty! RM
Are you not glad Tod and I freed you from the disillusionment of finishing this year?
Make it pretty! RM
That's pretty sharp Henry.
Trying to make an SG pretty sounds a lot like putting lipstick on a pig!
The upcoming season was a goal, though never a hard deadline... but, yes, shifting from maintaining the possibility to accepting the reality is a good thing. I reckon I could go all-in and dump a bunch of hours to get'er done, but this is a retirement project for fun and learning and not for stress and hard timelines.
So, yes, thanks.
Thanks!
Have you named her yet?
Richard Lathrop
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Right turn Clyde
Wooden boats have soul. Duckboats.net would not have such a following if this were not true. And yes, as silly as it may sound, I named both of mine. RM
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No. Something tells me naming a boat before it is finished and floating might be almost as bad luck as taking a banana on a boat!
Nah, it's like knowing the gender of a baby before it's born. It's ok to discuss names, just don't light the cigar and smash the champagne.
Speaking of bananas, a couple of friends in ME fish hard for bluefin tuna. A few weeks ago, while on a joint fishing trip, they told me this has been their worst year in memory. To turn the screws I joked, who's bringing bananas? The one guy reaches into his bag and pulls one out. I thought about jumping over the side like Forrest Gump but cooler heads prevailed. His wife convinced him a while back that they're good for you. No argument, just not while fishing. Then he allows that he always takes one as a snack, even after tuna. Worst season in memory boys.
Surprised you didn't throw HIM out of the boat! That's one of the first questions I ask on the dock if I'm fishing with folks I'm not sure know better.
These guys knew and challenged the one commandment of the Forbidden Fruit Fishing Gods. A smite has rightly been meted out.
Bananas on a boat...had to Google that one.
RM
RM
It is the curse of all curses. At best, you catch no fish (or kill no ducks), at worst you're trying to swim home.
Bad juju.
As are we, in a good natured way.
Steve Sanford
Well-known member
Henry~
I did not name my first vessel - a 16-foot garvey. It had a flat bottom and took me clamming on Great South Bay one summer - when I was 17. I did not build it - but made significant modifications above the waterline.
I re-named my Dad's gaff sloop. Friends warned me about the dangers of changing a boat's name - but relented when I told them my Dad had named her SNOOTY. I sailed her for many grand seasons as WILLET.
Neither did I name my first build - a duckboat to be sure. I did name this little decked-over canoe (maybe my 5th or 6th build): SWEET GHERKIN. I will probably bring her down to Tuckerton next month.
I did not put the name on her. The first time I did that on a gunning boat was on my Dad's old scooter - built in the 1920s-30s by Benjamin Hallock. My cousin - who admired my Dad - suggested the name after I restored it.
Shortly thereafter, I restored a friend's scooter - owned by a good friend of my Dad's: Brud Skidmore.
I named this 2-man scooter - cut down from an O'Day Daysailer - WHITE-WING. I never put the name on the boat itself - but the "hood ornament" suggests the moniker.
This stool boat came from Bud Corwin - and modified by me for partner Craig Kessler.
I'll bet the name BROADBILL has been bestowed on many sporting craft over the years - whether to honor the sportiest of ducks - or a certain billfish. The nameplates from another BROADBILL - another garvey from my youth - adorn my shop behind the wood stove.
I described the restoration of my 'glass-hulled sneakbox RED-LEG in excruciating detail here - back in 2016, I think.
Next came the JAMES CAIRD - an homage to Ernest Shackleton's navigator on his voyage to Elephant Island.
The name on the spray shield gets covered by salt hay during the gunning season - but is also on the inside of the aft coaming - which is hidden by the lap cover whilst gunning.
BTW: I get my names and registrations in vinyl from lettering.com. They come expertly spaced - and even on any arc you need.
I hope this both encourages you to find the "right" name - and to display it with pride.
All the best,
SJS