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More proof that Bruce on the Bangkok Dock is no sailor
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:34:01 -0400, "Leanne" wrote:
wrote in message .. . On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:48:04 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:27:46 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:00:03 +0700, wrote: y out board is almost ten years old and still going strong drinking its 50::1 mix. Wonder if your 9.9 will last as long? My outboard is more than eighty years old. Starts with a rope, of course. One half HP. Powers an aluminum canoe. Grumman if it matters. I apologise for unclear writing, but the canoe is the Grumman. The motor is an Evenrude. Parts for the boat are sheet metal and rivets. Neither has ever needed any parts. The motor doesn't necessarily have high hours, no way to really tell. Sure as hell couldn't ask previous owners, when we got it fifty years ago. It wasn't that old then, a mere thirty years. We have a recoil start one horse that is only slightly newer. We also had a duckboat. Twelve foot long, it was shaped almost exactly like a WWII German S-Boat. [also called E-boats], and was fast for the power, 22 mph with a five, and not bad with the one. The canoe is scary fast with a three, the narrow beam and all, but the one is nice. My dad used the half with his sixteen foot schooner. { a converted cedar,with an oak keel, rowboat. Made locally, the type hull was the standard local fishboat for decades} got the hull free from a neighbor. Sat out for years, the keel had rotted away. Cedar was still good. Replaced the keel with custom made steel. Got it from the Des Moines firm that made the Gateway Arch, at about the same time. They had two jobs that year. Casady I knew that Grumman built boats but did n not know that they had built engines also. I just assumed that hey were one of the early outboard motor makers that disappeared in the early on. In looking things up I did discover that Ole Evenrude was not the first maker of out boards, which is sort of a standard belief here. There was actually an earlier builder who appeared to be fairly successful but still disappeared fairly early on. Waterman built up top 1,000 engines a year as far back as 1905. Aluminum was the first nail in the wooden boat market and when GRP came along it pretty much killed the wooden boat makers. Back in the days of wooden working boats all the lobster boats were cedar on oak frames. From talking to the old folk the wood lasted but the galvanized boat nails holding it together only lasted 10 years, or so. . Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) I remember watching Enoch Winslow steaming the oak frames and forming them into the shapes that he needed. He used to build up to 40' boats. He would start one in the fall and it would be on the way to the water on or about Memorial Day. It was a one man operation and something to watch, especially when it was all planked and he rolled it over to finish it out. My dad's automobile garage was next door to his boat building shop. Most were Eldridge-McGinnis designs, but he made three or four of his own lines. Leanne When I was living in Maine all of the lobster boats were wooden boats with an underwater profile like a very shallow draft sailboat. They had a proper keel, although probably only 2 feet deep at the rudder, steam bent ribs and cedar planking and were built right side up. The tradition was to build a boat during the winter, fish it all summer, sell it in the fall and start on a new boat. I was privileged to know a 80 year old fisherman who was still living this way, pulling 50 traps a day, although he was, when I knew him, semi retired (and the price of lobsters was high) so he had not built a boat in several years. Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom) |
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