Hey Forrest! ..... If they made the bridge - transparent, by the time you got across-it, you'd need two doctors appointments. ...... Cause It'd scare the...
Hey Bill; Forgot to add that it had radar rotating just like your model in YouTube. Ah, but Good Sir, I beg to differ! ... I grew up with my Dad in Navy and...
Hey Y'all; This was in My Yahoo RSS feed this morning: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?p=144174#post144174 "Kort nozzles ... I have a few...
Hello Allen,I too am sorry !Somehow I missed this email.Just found it when I was cleaning out my box.I will send you these plans today.Best regards Walter ...
A quick reminder that the Great Lakes Model Boat Association Model Expo 2007 is fast approaching. It is being held at the Kitchener City Hall in Kitchener...
Hey Y'all; We now reside in Boonville as of the 5th! Have seen 2 towboats alive and well on the MO River about 325 yards North of our apartment parking lot -...
YUP!.... Kinda envy ya Forrest - Tows in the front yard an all, but at least up here in the country. I'm far enough away from the creek, if it floods - I...
I've been a busy boy today... Went through a bunch of videos and loaded 16 up to YouTube tonight. Hopefully by morning they'll be up and running. Go to...
Joe - I can't find the videos ???? Nothun on You Tube shows up under Captn Nasty or Towboats, except my stuff and some others that were there before...
Well Bill, they hadn't finished processing yet. Thry're there now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpN9t3kyprU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVng6qynP4o ...
Hey!...... We Famous Now -Joe, including Bernie Kain too - Huh! Greta video Joe, I'd fairly forgetten a lot of that stuff - we used ta does at the events to...
Guys - I don't wanna blow my own horn - here, but Joe's old Videos on You Tube. com just prove that him & I and few others like Bernie Kain, were doin model...
At least it was something to do on a rainy day. Those Hooter's girls enjoyed standing on the balcony watching us. Wouda been nice to got some video... of the...
... = "Cat'n Nasty???" .... (;-)) Enquiring minds wanna know - namely Old River Bill ... The name Towboatjoe was already taken. If I had done it a few years...
Well now that makes me feel good. While not a Tow boat, it is a Work boat and the Jean was my first boat and scratch. It was finished a short time after the...
Damn! .... Has it been that long ago - Joe? Gawd almighty - I'm getting older than DIRT!..... Just turned 56 last Friday on the 8th of June, and I feel...
LOL! ..... Well Gary, if the truth be known, I started way back in 1981 modeling towboats, right after I came out of the ole horse pistol after my trucking...
Well I suppose if you want to talk first models there are some here older then me. But I got you beat. First I'm 69 and my first model was a cut out ME-109 off...
... Hey there; Thanks for putting up the videos. Fun to see boats in motion. Good man Joe, rather have silence than as some videos' noise. ;-) later, Forrest...
Talking about towboat builds, my first one was for the April and May 1977 FLYING MODELS magazine in a two issue build entitled Misuri. My next towboat build...
I built one towboat back in 1979 ( 1" scale powered by a 24 pound thrust Minn Kota trolling motor), then I started another in 1986 which was never finished. In...
The video of the Irvin Cobb was really good, all you needed was alittle smoke out the stack and you have the real thing. It kind of fades to black really...
Ya know - Joe, the Cobb has one of the most realistic operaqting paddle wheels I ever built. Dang thing almost looks real, with the 100 rpm motor running...
Guys, Disabled as I am, in this wheelchair....... I simply can't take care of this beauttiful little 7 acre place we have anymore. So my mother - whose 80+...
... <snip> Bill old friend, I'm very sorry to read this. But considering my own cancer, diabetes and emphysema and my wife's ALS I can certainly understand. I...
Hey Bill; Sadness and heartbreak. It is probably like standing on the riverbank watching the last boat ever head downstream. Standing there thinking "Now...
Bill, based on our being colleagues in this group, I can only say that though we will miss you, I am sure that wherever you end up in the near to distant...