Re: Digest Number 2527
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, Chris Lasdauskas <cml@t...> wrote:
Statistics prove that Birthdays are good for you. The more you have
the longer you live.
Good luck on the Cartopper.
Just use wider seam tape than called for and use a wide felt tip
marker to draw lines. That's what I do now:-)
A good quality orbital jig saw is also a blessing when cuts tend to
wander and a Japanese duzuki pull saw costs $20.
Cheers, Nels
> Nice (though sad) story.HAPPY 80TH JOHN!!!
>
> Happy Birthday!
>
> Chris
>
> catboat15@a... wrote:
>
Statistics prove that Birthdays are good for you. The more you have
the longer you live.
Good luck on the Cartopper.
Just use wider seam tape than called for and use a wide felt tip
marker to draw lines. That's what I do now:-)
A good quality orbital jig saw is also a blessing when cuts tend to
wander and a Japanese duzuki pull saw costs $20.
Cheers, Nels
Nice (though sad) story.
Happy Birthday!
Chris
catboat15@...wrote:
Happy Birthday!
Chris
catboat15@...wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/1/2005 12:03:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
>
> Those Norwegians are one tough bunch of seafarers and skilled boat
> builders I have to tell you.
>
>
> My next door neighbors when I was growing up about a century ago (80 years
> tomorrow) were a Norwegian family. The father was a carpenter on a whaler and
> fell off a mast and broke his back. The ship just dumped him off on the west
> coast of California (Our first illegal immigrant?) He got a job as a carpenter
> with a railroad (wooden box cars then) and saved enough to bring his family
> over here.
> Anyway when old Berg had a couple of beers he would tell some really
> wonderful tales of wood whaling ships and their voyages. But it was touchy to get a
> story out of him as two beers would start the story but three beers he could
> only speak Norwegian. I just wish I was old enough at the time to listen more
> carefully and remember some of the tales he told my Dad and Mom. His son
> (and my best buddy at that time) Arne was killed in the war on one of those
> Pacific islands and both his other kids Ellie and John (Until I was in Jr High
> with John I thought his name was "Yonnie" the way his folks pronounced it.) both
> died young.
In a message dated 7/1/2005 12:03:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
Hell, clear duct tape and spray painted cardboard might do the
trick! Connect two with wingnuts and you have a disposable schooner.
Some place (Probably an old Popular Mechanics magazine) I have seen both a
row boat and a canoe built of brown wrapping paper, flour and water paste all
covered and protected with varnish.
John Meacham
High desert of California
Bolger Cartopper.
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bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
Hell, clear duct tape and spray painted cardboard might do the
trick! Connect two with wingnuts and you have a disposable schooner.
Some place (Probably an old Popular Mechanics magazine) I have seen both a
row boat and a canoe built of brown wrapping paper, flour and water paste all
covered and protected with varnish.
John Meacham
High desert of California
Bolger Cartopper.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
In a message dated 7/1/2005 12:03:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
Those Norwegians are one tough bunch of seafarers and skilled boat
builders I have to tell you.
My next door neighbors when I was growing up about a century ago (80 years
tomorrow) were a Norwegian family. The father was a carpenter on a whaler and
fell off a mast and broke his back. The ship just dumped him off on the west
coast of California (Our first illegal immigrant?) He got a job as a carpenter
with a railroad (wooden box cars then) and saved enough to bring his family
over here.
Anyway when old Berg had a couple of beers he would tell some really
wonderful tales of wood whaling ships and their voyages. But it was touchy to get a
story out of him as two beers would start the story but three beers he could
only speak Norwegian. I just wish I was old enough at the time to listen more
carefully and remember some of the tales he told my Dad and Mom. His son
(and my best buddy at that time) Arne was killed in the war on one of those
Pacific islands and both his other kids Ellie and John (Until I was in Jr High
with John I thought his name was "Yonnie" the way his folks pronounced it.) both
died young.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
Those Norwegians are one tough bunch of seafarers and skilled boat
builders I have to tell you.
My next door neighbors when I was growing up about a century ago (80 years
tomorrow) were a Norwegian family. The father was a carpenter on a whaler and
fell off a mast and broke his back. The ship just dumped him off on the west
coast of California (Our first illegal immigrant?) He got a job as a carpenter
with a railroad (wooden box cars then) and saved enough to bring his family
over here.
Anyway when old Berg had a couple of beers he would tell some really
wonderful tales of wood whaling ships and their voyages. But it was touchy to get a
story out of him as two beers would start the story but three beers he could
only speak Norwegian. I just wish I was old enough at the time to listen more
carefully and remember some of the tales he told my Dad and Mom. His son
(and my best buddy at that time) Arne was killed in the war on one of those
Pacific islands and both his other kids Ellie and John (Until I was in Jr High
with John I thought his name was "Yonnie" the way his folks pronounced it.) both
died young.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]