Re: ("Best 3 sheet boat?")
Hello All,
I don't have a candidate for a three sheet boat, unless someone wants
to build a very small micro. ;-) But, (isn't there always a but) I do
whole heatedly agree with the concept of building something that will
get you on the water with the least amount of effort. It has been three
years now, actual work time much less, building the Snow Goose, and I do
enjoy the building. The enjoyment of journey of life is the travel time,
not the destination. For me boat building is much the same.
Looking, "way back" to when I was a kid, I remember my first,
"boat?", It was two truck inner tubes with a 2X4's and scrap lumber
lashed deck on it. If only there would be some way to relive the pure
excitement, the thrill of discovery, That was there, the first time I
paddled it out far enough and knew I couldn't touch bottom if something
went wrong. Wow, what a high!!! Eventually I even went out far enough so
I couldn't ever SEE the bottom, what an adventure. The following
weekend, when my Dad found out what I had been up to, He offered to
accompany me with the rowboat if I wanted to try to paddle ALL THE WAY
across the lake. What a thrill.
To make a long story shorter, many years later, I revisited the lake,
and I was under-whelmed by how small it was, more like a big pond, but
things look so much bigger when you are less than four feet tall.
The point of all of this, if there is one, is, get it built, go out
on the water, live the adventure, have fun.
Stan, Snow Goose
I don't have a candidate for a three sheet boat, unless someone wants
to build a very small micro. ;-) But, (isn't there always a but) I do
whole heatedly agree with the concept of building something that will
get you on the water with the least amount of effort. It has been three
years now, actual work time much less, building the Snow Goose, and I do
enjoy the building. The enjoyment of journey of life is the travel time,
not the destination. For me boat building is much the same.
Looking, "way back" to when I was a kid, I remember my first,
"boat?", It was two truck inner tubes with a 2X4's and scrap lumber
lashed deck on it. If only there would be some way to relive the pure
excitement, the thrill of discovery, That was there, the first time I
paddled it out far enough and knew I couldn't touch bottom if something
went wrong. Wow, what a high!!! Eventually I even went out far enough so
I couldn't ever SEE the bottom, what an adventure. The following
weekend, when my Dad found out what I had been up to, He offered to
accompany me with the rowboat if I wanted to try to paddle ALL THE WAY
across the lake. What a thrill.
To make a long story shorter, many years later, I revisited the lake,
and I was under-whelmed by how small it was, more like a big pond, but
things look so much bigger when you are less than four feet tall.
The point of all of this, if there is one, is, get it built, go out
on the water, live the adventure, have fun.
Stan, Snow Goose