[Rhodes22-list] Boat nostalgia

[FredkLange at aol.com]

Mark,

I hope you're not planning to plant flowers in your Rhodes 22 when you retire 
it.

Fred

In a message dated 2/10/04 2:07:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, mark at kaynor.org 
writes:

> 
> I was recently going through some photos from a trip we took up to the old
> family place on the Maine coast a couple of years ago and came across the
> attached.
> 
> My dad had this 10' rowing skiff made for me by an old Harpswell boat
> builder named Henry Barnes - the same winter he also had skiffs built for
> himself and my older brother, a year or so after Henry built my uncle's 36'
> lobster boat. I believe it was given to me on my 7th birthday, and I
> eventually passed it on to my younger brother when I inherited my older
> brother's 14' skiff at 12 or so.
> 
> Looks pretty sad now, but, man did I ever have a load of fun in that thing.
> Even took it out to the islands a couple times with my old 3hp Johnson
> motor. I spent almost every day of every summer for 5 years in that little
> boat.
> 
> Mark Kaynor
> 
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