Old lower columbia duck skiffs?

Glad I could make you laugh Steve. They wanted $500 to fix my motor and used ones were that or more. A brand new outboard is over a grand! You're telling me I can't build a Broadbill for under a grand?! You're on!
 
Glad I could make you laugh Steve. They wanted $500 to fix my motor and used ones were that or more. A brand new outboard is over a grand! You're telling me I can't build a Broadbill for under a grand?! You're on!
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Devlin's estimate is over 2K in materials. That price usually covers wood, glass and epoxy, not hardware or electrical. Good luck.
 
you use inferior materials and unless you leave stuff out like consumable and the tools you have to buy that you don't have......

I'm sure you can do it if you use luan and cheap fittings for stuff like the oar locks, "oh and lets not forget an honest to goodness set of oars that will maximize the boats performance instead of just using a pair that you have that aren't proper length just because you have them", flotation, electrical, (don't leave that off just because you are planning on rowing in the beginning because you will, in theory, be keeping this boat for along while and will eventually put a motor on it, a spray skirt, probably a cockpit cover, modifications to the trailer so that you don't beat the bottom out of the boat by hauling it on a trailer built for an aluminum jonboat....etc.etc.etc......

Bets in then.....you name the libation, beer to tequila, and save the receipts.....when is that baby due? if we're going to either be christening a boat or whupping Todd's butt out behind the boat ramp you best get busy before he arrives or we'll have to wait till after he graduates from College.....

Question? whats wrong with the motor?

Steve
 
or heck....lets make it upland so that while we're enjoying a dram or two your dog won't drown my dog again....

Steve
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I don't know, Pete was pretty successful at drowning Mike on the last upland trip. I'll toast to Derek in either the low or highlands..
 
The motor lost compression and it will only stay running with a drill spinning the flywheel fast enough to suck in gas. It was old and tired. I picked it up for free from a guy who I landscaped his yard and he had it in a shed and I asked about it. He said if I could get it running, I could have it. I cleaned it up, changed spark plugs, greased it, and it started third pull. Ran great for me for the last 6 years! Only thing I ever had to fix was the water pump which was cheap and easy to do myself. I'm not about to tear it apart and rebuild it though.

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if Pete is going to be there that it has to be "IN THE DESERT"........

Prairie Chickens like dry..

We'll have to see whether he's planning on building in the next couple of months, (before baby), or in 25 or so years, (after graduation), before making plans.....Mike says he sure hopes its "before baby" cause he's not sure he'll be up to a Chicken hunt in 25 years....


Steve
 
attention Tom Scholberg and any other motorheads....

Be as specific as possible including telling them what the people that were going to charge you $500.00 to fix it were going to do....

If after their response you still aren't interested in trying to fix it let me know before disposing of the carcass.....

Steve
 
if Pete is going to be there that it has to be "IN THE DESERT"........

Prairie Chickens like dry..

We'll have to see whether he's planning on building in the next couple of months, (before baby), or in 25 or so years, (after graduation), before making plans.....Mike says he sure hopes its "before baby" cause he's not sure he'll be up to a Chicken hunt in 25 years....


Steve
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Those damn Lesser Prairie Chickens, I hate them.

Here is a question for you. Is there a weed out west (this would be from KS) that is in weedy fields that commonly causes itchy rashes? I got into something that is still on the inside the calf area of some of the pants I wore. It isn't super bad, but it is still there after several washes. Not like poison ivy, I think it is a burr or prickle type thing (although I can't see or feel it).

T
 
not only defeat you but humilate you in the process.......LONG LIVE THE LESSER PRAIRIE CHICKEN.......

Almost all of the "native" grasses, (they aren't weeds to anyone but someone thatt cultivates their lawns like lettuce and thinks anything that isn't short and some shade of bilious green even in the winter), that produce seed heads have "awns" on them....the tips of those little devils are like titanium needs....sharp and tough as hell and will drive through almost all of the "box store" brush pants where they break off and remain until the are eventually worn away by your lily white yankee legs......this can take awhile, as you have found, because like porcupine quills the little devils will migrate in the direction of the tip until either you eventually wear them completely out OR until you throw the pants away in desperation....

I have a pair of wrangler brush pants that were "decent" when new that have the problem you talk about so bad that I actually tried shaving the insides of the pants legs....worked o.k. for a while but as the awns migrated they returned....

Lifes tough on the prairie......

Steve
 
Zach, I am sorry that I hijacked your post. I really was just interested in boat and some history from the NW. Didn't mean for it to turn into this.
 
not only defeat you but humilate you in the process.......LONG LIVE THE LESSER PRAIRIE CHICKEN.......

Almost all of the "native" grasses, (they aren't weeds to anyone but someone thatt cultivates their lawns like lettuce and thinks anything that isn't short and some shade of bilious green even in the winter), that produce seed heads have "awns" on them....the tips of those little devils are like titanium needs....sharp and tough as hell and will drive through almost all of the "box store" brush pants where they break off and remain until the are eventually worn away by your lily white yankee legs......this can take awhile, as you have found, because like porcupine quills the little devils will migrate in the direction of the tip until either you eventually wear them completely out OR until you throw the pants away in desperation....

I have a pair of wrangler brush pants that were "decent" when new that have the problem you talk about so bad that I actually tried shaving the insides of the pants legs....worked o.k. for a while but as the awns migrated they returned....

Lifes tough on the prairie......

Steve
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Hmmmm, I for sure know the awns. That part of KS got a late rain and there were a lot of weedy patches of forbs, especially in the over grazed areas. This itchyness was something that I noticed in the weedy patches and it would stick with me all day. I noticed it walking in the weeds and it woudl work up my legs (luckily stopping at the knee), I don't think it is awns at the time, but I suppose it could be now and I'm just sensative. I've never had a problem other than there though.
 
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mean, nasty, ugly, stuff.....nothing will turn the little spines on the tips of the leaves but waxed canvas......

NASTY NASTY stuff but the birds love it...(I'm sure because they are at ground level and below the first whorl of leaves......

Steve
 
mean, nasty, ugly, stuff.....nothing will turn the little spines on the tips of the leaves but waxed canvas......

NASTY NASTY stuff but the birds love it...(I'm sure because they are at ground level and below the first whorl of leaves......

Steve
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Looking at the pictures it looks right, now that is why you get paid the big bucks! Pete didn't like it a bit either, the pheasants did like it though.
 
as bad as it is on your legs imagine how it must feel on an dogs unprotected stomach, and package.....

Yet another one of those nasty European Invasives...althogh this one does have some wildlife value....

Steve
 
as bad as it is on your legs imagine how it must feel on an dogs unprotected stomach, and package.....

Yet another one of those nasty European Invasives...althogh this one does have some wildlife value....

Steve
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So, I was saying... I'm at work and there is this group of jakes right outside the window yelping like a bunch of horny hens... Is it Turkie season yet?

Time to go home...
 
isn't it bad enough that you hijacked the post in the first place but you're now trying to re-hijack the re-hijack?....

Hey..this might be a record...from Columbia Skiff to rowing to building a Devlin to you can't do it for that to drinking to weeds to turkeys.....did I miss any?

Steve
 
isn't it bad enough that you hijacked the post in the first place but you're now trying to re-hijack the re-hijack?....

Hey..this might be a record...from Columbia Skiff to rowing to building a Devlin to you can't do it for that to drinking to weeds to turkeys.....did I miss any?

Steve
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I miss the old forum and you would open it up and see a thread that stepped its way so far over to the right that the post title would be all stacked up one word on each row. You know there was something good going on them. Oh boy, those threads were always perfectly linear.

T
 
I was going through some papers from my Uncle and found his original receipts and instructions from a 1955 Chris-Craft 14 foot duckboat. I remember stories my Uncle told about assembling the kit and the 20 pounds of brass screws he used to build it. He said it was a great duck boat but he unfortunately lost it during a typhoon while stationed in Japan.


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