DSK wrote in message ...
Joe wrote:

We made it in Ft. Worth. Lived near Benbrook lake. On a Hot Hot summer
day 1967 we found a sheet of corrigated tin. Me and my friends bent
one end in to a bow shape and we scraped tar off the highway to seal
the bow seam together.

I've seen a couple of corrugated tin roof boats. Did you put in a frame
amidships to give the "hull" a shape with more stability than a
semicircle?

I think we had a couple of boards/ seats that helped.


I sailed with my family from a very early age, then crewed on OPB's and by
about ten, through great virtue & charm, found my self often skippering
those OPBs. But I also experimented with building my own boats with
materials at hand, IIRC the first one was a couple of pallets nailed
together into roughly the shape of a milk carton on it's side, and covered
with tarpaper. Actually it sailed pretty well, it would beat a Sunfish but
not a 505. My cousin and I also adventured all over Barnegat Bay in a
derelict rowboat that we found and 'repaired' and added a bedsheet sail.

It's a shame the world has changed so much that kids can't do the same
kind of thing today.

Yeah, Today they would have rescue helos hovering over them damanding
they be rescued. Just as much fun or more is we would use the lakes
100 foot + spillway
as a soapbox track, It was a blast unless you rolled and wrecked ,
many time me and my brothers came home covered with asphalt rash.
Today they would go ballistic if you tried something like that at a
govt controlled dam.



Will videogames and websurfing provide the same kind
of character building, not to mention fond memories in later life?


No its going to make a bunch of overweight fat ass liars like the
blobster.


Fresh Breezes- Doug King