Le Cabotin...teezer-time!
Hi Bolgerados,
Well I finally took a full honest days' work off from working
on Windermere and decided that the best use of this free time would
be to pay a visit to some local Big Bolger Boat Builders Jean and
Gaby,builders of the new and improved AS-39.
I do not know why it has taken me soooo long to actually drop
in on them,especially since they took the time to assist in one of
my earlier bottom flipping exercises but I suspect that it was the
twitching of a fine line that appeared to suggest that a launching
was imminent.
The day was,in a word,absolutelyfookingorgeous! Not a cloud in
the sky,temps hovering around the 30 degree mark and nothing but
time,time and time to spare. The opportunity to take a drive out
into some beautiful Quebecois pasture land,far from the evils of the
big city(Montreal) was an unexpected treat for this city-boy!
Pictures,of course,will speak volumes and they will be posted
before the week is out(Promise!!I took the film in for processing
yesterday,monday) but just to tweek the teezer button, I will tell
you that this boat is,is,is BEAUTIFUL!! And I'm not even touching on
the design shape,since some do not like the look of the "AS" series
boxiness.
Jean and Gaby have done a top shelf,first-class,give-the-man-a-
medal job of building Le Cabotin. Being given the royal tour by Jean
quickly revealed just how very proud(and rightly so!) he(they) are
of everything they've done on the boat.There was not a single area I
did not visit and with every nook and cranny getting a full eye-ball
and stroke from moi.....I am almost speachless!
And as if the construction details and standards were not enough
to blow anyone off their feet, we ate like Kings and drank like our
great,great,great,great,great ancestors,the fishees! What a grand
day and being so very well hydrated(or is the correct
term,lubricated?),our jaw bone joints and tongue moorings got an
olympic workout!
So,after 6 or was it 7? hours of shear bliss,my most enjoyable
day came to a close. I suppose I could have stayed longer and later
but the drive back home would only be more daunting under the cover
of darkness.Besides, I felt like I had already taken up alot of
their valuable building time and wished to not further the debt.:-)
One thing I can share with you is that the name Le Cabotin will
not be the final name for their boat.Jean discovered,while getting
the boat registered,that name was ALREADY registered to someone
else! And so they have "re-named" her French Tickler..........(Oh
for the love-o-God Lenihan,quit yer blasted foolishness! That is not
her new name and you know it!)
Ah yes,t'is true.It ain't the real name a'tall.This I will save
for Thursday when I expect to have the pictures all back,developed
and scanned ready for "up-loading" into the realm of Bolgerland.Then
all shall be revealed,including her real name, and we can all relax
and soak up some damned fine building practices :-)
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan, relieved to finally find out I do not have OCD but
rather Jean has it,and a wicked case of it too I might add, from
along the glorious,break-o-dawn shores of the mighty
St.Lawrence...........
Well I finally took a full honest days' work off from working
on Windermere and decided that the best use of this free time would
be to pay a visit to some local Big Bolger Boat Builders Jean and
Gaby,builders of the new and improved AS-39.
I do not know why it has taken me soooo long to actually drop
in on them,especially since they took the time to assist in one of
my earlier bottom flipping exercises but I suspect that it was the
twitching of a fine line that appeared to suggest that a launching
was imminent.
The day was,in a word,absolutelyfookingorgeous! Not a cloud in
the sky,temps hovering around the 30 degree mark and nothing but
time,time and time to spare. The opportunity to take a drive out
into some beautiful Quebecois pasture land,far from the evils of the
big city(Montreal) was an unexpected treat for this city-boy!
Pictures,of course,will speak volumes and they will be posted
before the week is out(Promise!!I took the film in for processing
yesterday,monday) but just to tweek the teezer button, I will tell
you that this boat is,is,is BEAUTIFUL!! And I'm not even touching on
the design shape,since some do not like the look of the "AS" series
boxiness.
Jean and Gaby have done a top shelf,first-class,give-the-man-a-
medal job of building Le Cabotin. Being given the royal tour by Jean
quickly revealed just how very proud(and rightly so!) he(they) are
of everything they've done on the boat.There was not a single area I
did not visit and with every nook and cranny getting a full eye-ball
and stroke from moi.....I am almost speachless!
And as if the construction details and standards were not enough
to blow anyone off their feet, we ate like Kings and drank like our
great,great,great,great,great ancestors,the fishees! What a grand
day and being so very well hydrated(or is the correct
term,lubricated?),our jaw bone joints and tongue moorings got an
olympic workout!
So,after 6 or was it 7? hours of shear bliss,my most enjoyable
day came to a close. I suppose I could have stayed longer and later
but the drive back home would only be more daunting under the cover
of darkness.Besides, I felt like I had already taken up alot of
their valuable building time and wished to not further the debt.:-)
One thing I can share with you is that the name Le Cabotin will
not be the final name for their boat.Jean discovered,while getting
the boat registered,that name was ALREADY registered to someone
else! And so they have "re-named" her French Tickler..........(Oh
for the love-o-God Lenihan,quit yer blasted foolishness! That is not
her new name and you know it!)
Ah yes,t'is true.It ain't the real name a'tall.This I will save
for Thursday when I expect to have the pictures all back,developed
and scanned ready for "up-loading" into the realm of Bolgerland.Then
all shall be revealed,including her real name, and we can all relax
and soak up some damned fine building practices :-)
Sincerely,
Peter Lenihan, relieved to finally find out I do not have OCD but
rather Jean has it,and a wicked case of it too I might add, from
along the glorious,break-o-dawn shores of the mighty
St.Lawrence...........