Re: [bolger] Stitch and glue cars, taste etc
Hi,
At the Greenwich Boat Show in London 3 years ago I saw a Morris Minor puckup truck where the back-end had been re-built with a shapely transom and lapstrake sides ( - mahogany on oak - a real piece of loving crafstmanship). Really eye-catching and a lotta laffs, too.
Members of my yacht club ( - now there's posh! - ) chuckle about my June Bug (aka 'Bill's war canoe', and 'the Kaiser's Battleship') but have grown to appreciate its virtues as a yacht tender - i.e. it is stable, you can stand on the gunl's without going over, it's fast under oars, and it's very light for its size (110 pounds). I can launch and be out at my Chebacco on its mooring while the other guys are tooling around trying to get their OBs to start on their fat, heavy, tippy little GRP tenders, before farting noisily out to their moorings with their bows in the air and transoms almost under.
Bill
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At the Greenwich Boat Show in London 3 years ago I saw a Morris Minor puckup truck where the back-end had been re-built with a shapely transom and lapstrake sides ( - mahogany on oak - a real piece of loving crafstmanship). Really eye-catching and a lotta laffs, too.
Members of my yacht club ( - now there's posh! - ) chuckle about my June Bug (aka 'Bill's war canoe', and 'the Kaiser's Battleship') but have grown to appreciate its virtues as a yacht tender - i.e. it is stable, you can stand on the gunl's without going over, it's fast under oars, and it's very light for its size (110 pounds). I can launch and be out at my Chebacco on its mooring while the other guys are tooling around trying to get their OBs to start on their fat, heavy, tippy little GRP tenders, before farting noisily out to their moorings with their bows in the air and transoms almost under.
Bill
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