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No,it's the STUPID season!
Having a bad Christmas Brian? Or you just off the meds again?
"Brian Nystrom" wrote in message ... Yeah, that's just what we need, more drunken idiots out motoring around on the water. That's really brilliant. Do us all a favor and post your party plans here, so we can tell the authorities where to bust your sorry asses. -- Regards Brian |
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No,it's the STUPID season!
Brian Nystrom wrote in message ...
Yeah, that's just what we need, more drunken idiots out motoring around on the water. That's really brilliant. Do us all a favor and post your party plans here, so we can tell the authorities where to bust your sorry asses. Yeah, drunken parties on the water should be reserved for those who can afford "proper" yachts, and private docks to tie them to! Scotty, my raft would have some rules, like NO BOAT SHOES ALLOWED! |
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No,it's the STUPID season!
Scotty says:
my raft would have some rules, like NO BOAT SHOES ALLOWED! They build shoes shaped like boats?!? Go figure..... ;-) |
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No,it's the STUPID season!
Brian Nystrom wrote in message ...
Yeah, that's just what we need, more drunken idiots out motoring around on the water. That's really brilliant. Do us all a favor and post your party plans here, so we can tell the authorities where to bust your sorry asses. Hey Brian, you failed to get up Darlene or Trish's ass once again? Oh well, there's always 2005... |
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It's the silly season!
"Andrew Butchart" wrote in message ...
Concept proposed over beer with one of my brothers. A "party barge" for a one-way trip down the river with roughly 12 people and assorted frosty beverages. Power to be provided by a combination of scantily clad slave girls (not bloody likely according to my wife who refuses to be scantily clad) or an old outboard that someone thinks they may have in their shed. This is intended to be a more "classy" trip than the current method of multiple canoes lashed together around an old skiff. Design considerations: - it needs to be able to be taken down to the river and returned in the backs of several pick-ups, or on a special purpose - not road-worthy trailer / hay wagon. - it needs to be able to handle various shallow sections of the river without falling apart, possibly requiring people to jump off and drag it across (10" draft?). - the vessel needs to be stable enough to handle people walking around on it. What quickly came to mind was to have each couple assemble a small, extremely cheap boat that "could" be used independently if the barge survives. Individual boats would be shaped rather like Phil Bolger's "Brick" and have the ability to be attached together. The over-all vessel would then be decked with 1/2" plywood leaving the center open for "frosty beverage" storage, or having this task performed by half-barrels lashed to the sides. Ideas? A little ot but here in CT we have a great raft race every year from Hartford. One year there were a bunch of guys on this old raft with oars, a couple of chairs, mugs, and a couple of kegs of beer. The race started and they were making pretty good way for a bunch of drunks until they stopped and started moving up stream! Nobody rowing, no sail, just against the current. Of course we all soon realized they had a small outboard hidden under the keg right in the middle of the raft, steered by turning the keg. That was many years ago when "responsible" drinkers were left alone on the river, ah for the good ole' days. Scotty |
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It's the silly season!
"Backyard Renegade" wrote in message
om. A little ot but here in CT we have a great raft race every year from Hartford. One year there were a bunch of guys on this old raft with oars, a couple of chairs, mugs, and a couple of kegs of beer. The race started and they were making pretty good way for a bunch of drunks until they stopped and started moving up stream! Nobody rowing, no sail, just against the current. Of course we all soon realized they had a small outboard hidden under the keg right in the middle of the raft, steered by turning the keg. That was many years ago when "responsible" drinkers were left alone on the river, ah for the good ole' days. Scotty In the 70s we used to have river "races" where the most important thing was making sure that you had your beer caches close enough together. I still remember one group having their case of beer dropped 20 feet from the bridge above to them. Fortunately it missed their canoe. It's amazing that to the best of my knowledge that no one drowned. I used to make good money checking the camp sites on the river bank through the summer for empties though. Even now, "frosty beverages" are the choices for many people on the river. For me it's water and a camera although my brother and his friends are all at least 15 years younger than me and still invincible I suppose. A couple of years ago I tried to get some interest in a river "fun race" going again but got scared off by insurance issues. -- Andrew Butchart http://www.floatingbear.ca |
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It's the silly season!
Just use the large cheap plastic pvc pipes lashed together with rope for
floatation "Andrew Butchart" wrote in message ... Concept proposed over beer with one of my brothers. A "party barge" for a one-way trip down the river with roughly 12 people and assorted frosty beverages. Power to be provided by a combination of scantily clad slave girls (not bloody likely according to my wife who refuses to be scantily clad) or an old outboard that someone thinks they may have in their shed. This is intended to be a more "classy" trip than the current method of multiple canoes lashed together around an old skiff. Design considerations: - it needs to be able to be taken down to the river and returned in the backs of several pick-ups, or on a special purpose - not road-worthy trailer / hay wagon. - it needs to be able to handle various shallow sections of the river without falling apart, possibly requiring people to jump off and drag it across (10" draft?). - the vessel needs to be stable enough to handle people walking around on it. What quickly came to mind was to have each couple assemble a small, extremely cheap boat that "could" be used independently if the barge survives. Individual boats would be shaped rather like Phil Bolger's "Brick" and have the ability to be attached together. The over-all vessel would then be decked with 1/2" plywood leaving the center open for "frosty beverage" storage, or having this task performed by half-barrels lashed to the sides. Ideas? -- Andrew Butchart http://www.floatingbear.ca |
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It's the silly season!
This shuld be interesting to you http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/p...e2/update2.htm On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:26:01 -0500, "Scott Downey" wrote: Just use the large cheap plastic pvc pipes lashed together with rope for floatation "Andrew Butchart" wrote in message ... Concept proposed over beer with one of my brothers. A "party barge" for a one-way trip down the river with roughly 12 people and assorted frosty beverages. Power to be provided by a combination of scantily clad slave girls (not bloody likely according to my wife who refuses to be scantily clad) or an old outboard that someone thinks they may have in their shed. This is intended to be a more "classy" trip than the current method of multiple canoes lashed together around an old skiff. Design considerations: - it needs to be able to be taken down to the river and returned in the backs of several pick-ups, or on a special purpose - not road-worthy trailer / hay wagon. - it needs to be able to handle various shallow sections of the river without falling apart, possibly requiring people to jump off and drag it across (10" draft?). - the vessel needs to be stable enough to handle people walking around on it. What quickly came to mind was to have each couple assemble a small, extremely cheap boat that "could" be used independently if the barge survives. Individual boats would be shaped rather like Phil Bolger's "Brick" and have the ability to be attached together. The over-all vessel would then be decked with 1/2" plywood leaving the center open for "frosty beverage" storage, or having this task performed by half-barrels lashed to the sides. Ideas? -- Andrew Butchart http://www.floatingbear.ca |
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It's the silly season!
That was my original inspiration.
-- Andrew Butchart http://www.floatingbear.ca "gk" wrote in message ... This shuld be interesting to you http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/p...e2/update2.htm On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:26:01 -0500, "Scott Downey" wrote: |
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