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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. |
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