Shantyboat Dreams

I rationalize building a boat. The decision is almost already made. I want to build another boat. I am pretty sure I already know which boat I want to make. But I want to think this through. Not so much like a pro and con list, I think I already know enough reasons not...
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The best laid plans. I awaken with a start and I instantly, if not clearly, begin to run through a mental checklist Where is the boat? The wind is still blowing, I can hear it. No water in the boat. We are still in the water, I can hear waves against athe boat, but...
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Our first restful night was on the main Skagit just above Mount Vernon. On the way there we stopped in Mount Vernon and discovered a big top circus at the field that boatramp led to! Circus Chimera. I hope to have pictures soon. Alex had never been to a bigtop circus and I hadn’t...
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Excargot Builders log – Skagit River Year Two We awoke to a misty morning, grey and unseasonably cold. The forecasters were wrong again. Here in the Northwest the weather forecasters seem to have about the same “batting average” as a pretty good ball player. I recall reading an ariticle about a local tv weather...
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Midnight July 21   There has been a bit of rough water here. Seems every time I plan to go out in boat… the rest of my life wakes up.  Weather.  Nephews birthdays.  Wife’s birthday.  A hole in the deck.  Life.  It raises the question… how does one make life more of what they...
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Midnight July 21   There has been a bit of rough water here. Seems every time I plan to go out in boat… the rest of my life wakes up.  Weather.  Nephews birthdays.  Wife’s birthday.  A hole in the deck.  Life.  It raises the question… how does one make life more of what they...
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I made it to the BOAT SHOW.   I did make it.   For a couple of months now I have worked with renewed enthusiasm with the show at the Center for Wooden Boats as my goal.   There were several times, as recent as last week, that I had decieded NOT to go.  My main...
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  A FAMILY built boat!   This is not a show boat, it is a FAMILY boat! This boat was built in the worst of conditions by an inexperienced family.  If WE can build a boat, you can build a boat.  It was the 2nd boat we have built, the first only being ten...
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The Center for Wooden Boat’s  boat show is next weekend.   It is a slightly hazy Sunday morning, June 24 as I write this. It has been an interesting few weeks.   I have worked on the boat a great deal.   My wife has been wonderfully understanding and has taken on the lion’s share of family...
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Escargot Diary June 12th, 2001   And now the hard part.  The boat works, pretty well actually.   All the big work of frames, adding sides, and the roof and such are done.  Even much of the outside is painted.  Cleats are trimmed down with dowels through them.  Will get pictures as soon as it...
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