Wooden Boat Show Pictures, Large download.
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John Klingenstein
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A wooden boat show on the waterfront.....
That sounds like a good way to spend an afternoon.
That sounds like a good way to spend an afternoon.
Bob B
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Can you say Varnish!
And more Varnish!
90 HP gas engine in this 30 footer pulled 32 men from the black of night off cape cod in the middle of a winter hurricane (1952?) when their tanker broke up after striking the shoal water. More nasty conditions than chatam Bar in winter are hard to find. What a restoration.
And more Varnish!
90 HP gas engine in this 30 footer pulled 32 men from the black of night off cape cod in the middle of a winter hurricane (1952?) when their tanker broke up after striking the shoal water. More nasty conditions than chatam Bar in winter are hard to find. What a restoration.
Geoff Pike
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Thanks Bob.
Those are some sharp rigs.
Those are some sharp rigs.
charlie foulds
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Thanks for posting up your photos Bob....I would have loved to have seen those rigs up close and personal but,I was busy building one of my own. I will be there next year for sure.
Phil Nowack
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Very cool!!!! Um....was that suppose to be 700 hp engine? If it is 70 hp.. my question is why is it so big?
I Lust that USCG vessel!!!!
I Lust that USCG vessel!!!!
Bob B
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The Lathrop was built right in mystic and that is a 70 hp natural diesel. It was popular before the Detroit became widely available after the war.
I have a few more shots of the Motor Life Boat. It is now powered by a 671 natural that is rated for 100HP that replaced the old gas motor in the 60's?
We read the memorial at the coast guard station in Chatham on vacation 2 years ago and I was amazed to see the boat restored and having run the whole trip from the cape to mystic on her own power.
I have a few more shots of the Motor Life Boat. It is now powered by a 671 natural that is rated for 100HP that replaced the old gas motor in the 60's?
We read the memorial at the coast guard station in Chatham on vacation 2 years ago and I was amazed to see the boat restored and having run the whole trip from the cape to mystic on her own power.
Phil Nowack
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So a natural diesel is a huge monster? Sorry I am not a motor guy... I just know the size of my Cummins.... I bet they were heavy beasts
Dave Diefenderfer
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Bob, thank you for hosting the get together on Saturday night. Was great to meet you and your family along with the other guys from the page. My Wife and I had a great time at the show and at the BBQ. Good food, beer, and conversation, can't beat it. Now if I could figure out how to avoid the CT, NY, NJ, DE, MD and DC traffic it would be perfect!
Dave
Dave
John Bourbon
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Hi Bob. Thank you very much for all you did this weekend. The picnic, the chowda (did I say that right?), and for posting the pics. I am going to have several of them printed up and sent to my father as he and my cousin appear in them. That was a great picnic you threw. I had never had clear chowder before.
The picture of Claire snuggled up to the beer bottle was priceless. My father is still talking about the way she was attacking the venison that Dave cooked up.
On Sunday afternoon, Sam Devlin showed up with his wife. Very nice people. We had quite a nice discussion about my boat and his wife took pictures of he and I standing next to it. He had some nice comments to make about some of the modifications to the boat that I had made, including the tank cover/step. I had brought along some T-shirts left over from the Lake Champlain Waterfowl Festival and I gave them away to various kids who visited my boat. If a kid showed any interest at all in the hunting part of it, and one kid did sit down on the grass to study the pictures, I gave him a shirt to take home. I also gave away several "message in a bottle boats" that I had made up over the years from scraps. And lastly, I had a cedar flattie bluebill decoy that spent most of the weekend on the bow deck of the boat. I gave it to Sam Devlin to take home.
Seeing Andrew and Dave again was yet another of the many highlites of the trip. I hadn't see either of them in person since the WaterFowl Festival here in Vt 5 years ago.
Dave Diefenderfer and his wife Maria drove up from Manassas Va. to see the show. During the heat of the day on Saturday, while Dave was roaming about, Maria was kind enough to keep me company at the boat and help me field questions about it.
One of the things I enjoyed most about the show was how many strangers came over to talk about how and where they used to duck hunt or the boats the used or whatever... I enjoy hearing those stories and I got to hear a bunch of them this weekend.
Bob, thanks again for your hospitality and pictures.
John Bourbon
The picture of Claire snuggled up to the beer bottle was priceless. My father is still talking about the way she was attacking the venison that Dave cooked up.
On Sunday afternoon, Sam Devlin showed up with his wife. Very nice people. We had quite a nice discussion about my boat and his wife took pictures of he and I standing next to it. He had some nice comments to make about some of the modifications to the boat that I had made, including the tank cover/step. I had brought along some T-shirts left over from the Lake Champlain Waterfowl Festival and I gave them away to various kids who visited my boat. If a kid showed any interest at all in the hunting part of it, and one kid did sit down on the grass to study the pictures, I gave him a shirt to take home. I also gave away several "message in a bottle boats" that I had made up over the years from scraps. And lastly, I had a cedar flattie bluebill decoy that spent most of the weekend on the bow deck of the boat. I gave it to Sam Devlin to take home.
Seeing Andrew and Dave again was yet another of the many highlites of the trip. I hadn't see either of them in person since the WaterFowl Festival here in Vt 5 years ago.
Dave Diefenderfer and his wife Maria drove up from Manassas Va. to see the show. During the heat of the day on Saturday, while Dave was roaming about, Maria was kind enough to keep me company at the boat and help me field questions about it.
One of the things I enjoyed most about the show was how many strangers came over to talk about how and where they used to duck hunt or the boats the used or whatever... I enjoy hearing those stories and I got to hear a bunch of them this weekend.
Bob, thanks again for your hospitality and pictures.
John Bourbon