There is a new list being started primarily for those more interested in dinghy cruising by oar. Although a sailor in the past I am now finding myself strictly...
Bamaling and Hope are "real" boats alright, the kind you rent a slip for and haul once a year for paint and repairs. The "real boat experience", but in an...
It's good to hear that you're almost done moving. It must have been an ordeal, you had LOTS of stuff! <g> I think Terry and I met the fellow giving the GPS...
From Terry: The guy you met at the WRPS meeting is David Wagner, I'm not sure if he is the one who will teach the PS gps, I think it is some kind of...
Gentlemen (and ladies -- sorry about that!): I am planning a website for the Small Boat Nut Rendezvous at Sucia. I want to put up maps of the island, charts of...
Hello Terry, er, for the rest of us who wish we could be there... what is WRPS & PS. Thanks! Dennis(sprained my mind with this puzzle, OUCH!) ... From: terry...
I've been blessed with a replacement for my slightly defective Volume 17 of the MoToR BoatinG Ideal Series. I thought it might be fun to send the old copy out...
I was at Fairview Marine Supply yesterday. (Great boat junk yard) I felt a need to add to my junk boat collection. I bought a 18 foot 1990 Skeeter Bass boat....
Lon: Just for future reference (next time I'm down that way I wouldn't mind dropping in) where is Fairview Marine Supply? Portland? John E. ... From: lon wells...
... I like Fairview Marine. They sold me a spare 1980's Tohatsu 30HP w/o powerhead for $250. ... If they're lucky. I've seen 1920's Johnson twins go for that...
... Head east on I-84, off at Fairview exit. Head north to first light at gas station. Turn right and head east until the stop sign. Boat yard's on yer ...
I hope you're joking Lon. If you brought that bass boat to a messabout we'd have to make you park it a mile away, so we wouldn't have to look at that ...
Should this one mile limit be enshrined as the "Metal Flake Bass Boat Exception to the No-Rule Rule"? ;-) I think one can Messabout in a metal flake bass...
We could have a 10 mile Race. In about a minute he would be out of earshot, wondering where the rest of us were. A Boat's, a boat. I know that my outboard it...
John Why John, Scandal is a good looking boat for a pond or lake. But not the ideal boat for a fat man on the Columbia. Besides I don't know how the metal...
Hi there Messabouters...*smiling* There is a saying in French and it goes like this...*pardon the omitting of the accent over the "e'.in the word depot. For...
Now John We don't know anything about Lon's new Skeeter Bass boat. Maybe it's this one. http://www.fishingworld.com/Skeeter/Heritage/ Pat BTW Well said, Lon ...
Bass boats do have a work boat heritage. The happiest months of my life were spent working the Tampa Bay sugar trout banks with my grandfather in his bass...
Anybody (John) got line drawings and/or offsets for either the Herreshoff 12 1/2' or Joel White's Haven 12 1/2'? I've just got another wild hair. Pat...
Pat, 6-12 months ago there was heated discussion on the WoodenBoat Forum about the Herreshoff 12-1/2 plans, offsets, etc. The short version: offests, plans,...
You can buy a new 12 1/2 in fiberglass for $26,500.00. That does not include the optional sails. (they are a good thing for a sailboat) Such a deal for a 16...
... just ordered the haven 12 1/2 book on amazon for 10.50. Of course had to order a couple of other books to get the free shipping. Lots of wildfowl on the...
Sounds like you were fishing the flats, in salt water. That's a different sort of fishing from what the typical bass boat was built for. Largemouth bass...
I was just kidding about shunning Lon's bass boat if he brought it to a messabout. We don't even know if it really does have metalflake gelcoat, though I don't...
Wrong Herreshoff, the 12 1/2 was drawn by Francis' father Nat. The Hart Museum at MIT has a lot of Nat's plans, and I believe they sell plans for the 12 1/2,...
You've got a point, a fat man isn't going to go very fast with 2 1/2 horsepower in _anything_. ;o) Go to all the trouble of building Scandal lean, low and...
I have the L. Francis H. Sensible Cruising Designs book. There are a bunch of larger designs in it that are based on the 12-1/2, but the smallest is the H-28...
