If we camp at Honeyman we can messabout on Woahink, just across the highway. It's a nice lake, very clear for a coast lake. Reluctantly, I think I'd skip it if...
Thanks for the heads up on the dead bugs etc. Good to know. I was really thinking of painting the floorboards. More for appearance sake than anything. I...
Lon, I am not much of a writer, probably because I cannot bring myself to stretch the truth very much. Instead, I challenge myself to try to live as if it were...
Craig, I googled "walnut shell grit". 7 pages & only recognized 1 outfit, Harbor Freight. $25/25 lb bag. Sand would be cheaper, unless you boat naked and ...
I used Watco Teak Oil (both sides) on the floorboard plywood in my Glen-L skiff. Only 1 trip so far but that was 5 days at Devils Lake. Lots of morning dew...
What does anyone know about a Chinese Junk for an Oregon based sailboat? I have seen one over on the coast, and of course I have the junk rig on my PD Racer,...
I sailed and motored my Chinese Junk Phai-Lon all over Puget Sound for 10 years. Junks go back for centuries as ocean passage boats. There are different...
More vicarious shopping for Andrew: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/boa/101128887.html Can't tell from the pix what her condition is. Lotsa wood features ...
"It was a dark and stormy night ...." Seriously, though, sounds like a good book. Try writing up your favorite episode, real or "how it should'a been". See...
Damn! Two of us came up with the "dark and stormy night" gag. ... stay ... try ... in ... in ... transitioned ... and ... listed ... folly ... to ... dad's ...
Or, "It was sailor beware, orange simmery sunrise, till I realized it was the slow gin dripping down my forhead from the bottle she broke over my head -- Terry...
Terry, Hey... no fair gettin all autobiographical on us. <G> I see you made it home in good time from Suttle Lake. John says he hustled, but never caught up...
Watco Teak Oil is what John McCallum uses on "brightwork" nowadays. He swears by it. There's a thread on the WB forum about pine tar right now. Check out what ...
Come on Frank, there's a lot more to like about River Rat than that! ;o) http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Oar/RiverRat.html Us gearhead Coots might like to...
I have talked with several authors about writing. Just write your story. The beginning and the end will be apparent once the story is being edited. Frank...
Whew! It took a while but I got back in. Uspto has a goofy web site. Anyway there are thirteen of them(at least that I could find). PAT. NO. 1,374,008 ...
Andy, Can't remember if we are working on the Chris Craft next weekend or not. If we are, I wont be there until afternoon Sat. Sat is the bi- monthly machinery...
Found myself a beautiful 14" Delta Band saw with a 6" riser block for $120!! at the Woodburn auction last week. Now I'm selling my Harbor Fright knock off with...
Dan, Very nice find. That is a classic tool... set up well. Crap, indeed!#??##!!? Hrrmmmph! Prosit, David Graybeal Portland "The second mouse gets the cheese" ...
Yes Dan we will try raising the ChrisCraft on Oct 8 and 9 even if it is only Matt, Quinn, Shawn and myself. Matt said Andy was by the dock this week so I hope...
Hi All, Lon asked me to post a photo of a boat very similar to the one that will be raised (God willin & the creek don't rise) next weekend. It was featured on...
Hey... it looks like it worked. Greg Stoll give me some instruction the other day, and it looks like some of it may have stuck. Thanks, Greg. Prosit, DG...
Nice snag on that Delta. Let me know how it Re-saws. I don't have $50 or need a band saw, but for those that do. If that bracket (is it a hinge?) Is identical...
Hi Pat, Thanks for that Info Pat, Lon is the new owner of my HF Band Saw. Played around with slicing a 1x6 and was able to cut paper thin slices out of my fire...
Hi Gang Unless its raining cat and dogs and the river is so muddy we cant see anything. We will be a go. Im planning on bringing 2 other divers up with me, one...
