[Rhodes22-list] Boat nostalgia

[Bob Weber]

Great Subject, I had a johnboat w/ a 6 hp everude (still working) which I 
drove all over the Lake of the Ozarks.  I knew to pick up the gas can after 
a couple hours to see how much "freedom" was left in the tank and bring it 
home dry.  One of the few things which my dad did that was safety orientated 
(we learned all our lessons the hard way) was to paint the boat "big bird" 
yellow.  It probably was a result of extra house paint but still a good idea 
and one of the few preventive measures I remember our family taking.  If you 
know the Lake of the Ozarks now, it was much differnt in the 70s.  The only 
limit to my adventures was the size of the fuel tank, nothing like today 
where a boat under 30 foot is "unseaworhty".  Honest to goodness the lake is 
so over populated that it has become a "washing machine" producing 3 to 5 
foot seas all weekend long.  A 30+ foot searay was swamped while it idoled 
out of "party cove" last year, sunk quicky trapping a young women asleep in 
the bow.  It was definetly a differnt time - hard to believe it was the same 
place.  Bob Weber


>From: "Kroposki" <kroposki at innova.net>
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>To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Boat nostalgia
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:01:17 -0500
>
>Mark,
>	You should be embarrassed showing a good boat in that condition.
>Why don't you clean it up, restore it and donate it to the sea
>scouts.... :-)
>Poor thing probably needs a bottom job.
>                                             Ed K
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kaynor
>Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:07 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Boat nostalgia
>
>
>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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