Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/24/17 8:12 PM, Alex wrote:
wrote:
Well, it's finally finished and it looks great. In the last episode
Lou takes it out and sea trials it with a Yamaha 50, runs great.

It's now listed for sale on EBAY (without outboard), and bidding is up
to $17,000 as we speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFv9SO_8lQ

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Classic-16-wooden-work-skiff-built-by-Louis-Sauzedde-on-Tips-from-a-Shipwright-/201900564523?hash=item2f0236202b:g:3QoAAOSw5UZY-ngE&vxp=mtr



I'd like to see it with a small center console and helm seat but then
it wouldn't be a work boat. It's too pretty for hauling crab pots or
oyster tonging in any case.


It's nice but I would rather have this:

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/622597157

My $45,000 bid didn't do it and I would have been surprised if it did!


I remember the Sunday mornings we'd be awakened by the noise of a pair
of airboats driven by assholes tearing up the marshlands along the
ICW...and I mean "tearing up." I'm sure you would have been among
them, given the opportunity. Their persona non grata status was made
official somehow as a result of excessive noise. I was hopeful their
running over an oyster bed might perforate the bottoms of their boats
but, alas, as far as I know, it didn't happen.

This company:

http://stur-deeboat.com/amesbury-dory/

makes very nice dory style small boats that can be equipped with seats
and a console. My dad bought and sold dozens and dozens of these boats
when they were made of wood. We knew the original owner, who died a
few years ago. I crossed LI Sound in one of these boats with a 15 hp
Evinrude on the stern. I think I was about 10 or 11, something like
that. Straight over to Port Jeff.


Airboats have thick polymer on the hulls to protect them from branches
and other debris. Some people run theirs on dry ground. When the
polymer is worn, it's replaced.