On 5 Feb 2005 07:03:44 -0800, wrote:

My Gal

William Garden was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1918. The Garden family
relocated to Seattle about the time young William was ten years old.
After graduating from a Seattle High School, William attended Edison
Tech's Boatbuilding School and then landed a job at Andrew's Boat
Company on Portage Bay.

I had a second house on Portage bay. Darn nice place.



Garden served in the army from 1942-46 where he
worked at a ship repair facility in the Aleutians. By 1947 he was a
licensed naval architect, and he launched one of the most influential
careers in modern boat design. Among many hundreds of designs, he drew
this month's NW Classic, "My Gal", built in 1967 at Vic
Franck's Boatyard on Portage Bay. The design was a departure from the
prevailing norm in its day, but as Bruce Ramon of Wolfe Marine
observed, "This boat really inspired a long series of Pacific
Northwest cruisers." As we inspected the 64' cedar on oak
motoryacht, it was easy to appreciate Bruce's insight.

Bruce was a very good friend of mine. He reguarly consulted me when
drawing prints.

Sixty to seventy-foot pleasure boats of the mid-1960's were typified
by flush deck motoryachts from legendary builders such as Chris Craft
and Pacemaker.

I had two Pacemakers when I lived on the "Big Island" Hawahii.


Stylish designs featured a long foredeck and
inconsequential sidedecks, with most superstructure and a high
bridgedeck well aft. Garden's earliest designs were primarily working
commercial vessels, and the propensity for creating stout boats with
excellent seakeeping characteristics endured throughout his career.
"My Gal" features a raised pilothouse behind a Portuguese bridge, a
high bow, decks sloped to drain aft, and wide, covered side decks. So
advanced was Garden's design that "My Gal" doesn't appear badly
outdated in 2005, but she must have garnered some intrigued stares from
owners of Chris Craft Commanders, Matthews Voyagers, and horizontally
layered Pacemaker Flush Decks when first debuted.

When I first moved to Venice, I had a matthews, but it wasnt a
Voyager, I believe it was larger.

We boarded "My Gal" at Vic Franck's Boatyard, where she was
launched thirty-eight years ago. Dan Franck reported that the boatyard
has been doing periodic refits on the boat for a short list of
successive owners. Her hull and superstructure gleamed, even on a dark
January day, "We repainted her not all that long ago," said Dan
Franck. "We were about to do some minor updating on the interior
when, unfortunately, the owner of the boat passed away and its now
being sold as part of his estate."

Good luck with you boat.

"JimH" wrote in message
...

Nice spin. Nice try. No cigar Chucky.

Now go get that stash of hundred dollar bills slipped under your door last
night by XX Boat Company and finish your "unbiased" review of their boat.
Remember, nothing but positives and do remember to stretch the truth as
much
as possible. Oh those advertising dollars from XX Boat Company will
surely
start to sprout.


JimH,

Obviously you did not read the original post. If Chuck is hyping boat
builders, why is he writing an article about a boat built 38 years ago?
From the post at the top of the thread: "Among many hundreds of designs, he
drew this month's NW Classic, 'My Gal', built in 1967 at Vic Franck's
Boatyard on Portage Bay."

"Snafu" wrote in message
...

"JimH" wrote in message
...

Nice spin. Nice try. No cigar Chucky.

Now go get that stash of hundred dollar bills slipped under your door
last
night by XX Boat Company and finish your "unbiased" review of their boat.
Remember, nothing but positives and do remember to stretch the truth as
much
as possible. Oh those advertising dollars from XX Boat Company will
surely
start to sprout.


JimH,

Obviously you did not read the original post. If Chuck is hyping boat
builders, why is he writing an article about a boat built 38 years ago?
From the post at the top of the thread: "Among many hundreds of designs,
he
drew this month's NW Classic, 'My Gal', built in 1967 at Vic Franck's
Boatyard on Portage Bay."



I was referring to a previous boat review of his.

SNAFU wrote:

imH,

Obviously you did not read the original post. If Chuck is hyping boat
builders, why is he writing an article about a boat built 38 years ago?

From the post at the top of the thread: "Among many hundreds of
designs, he
drew this month's NW Classic, 'My Gal', built in 1967 at Vic Franck's
Boatyard on Portage Bay."

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Hurtwit doesn't need a *real* excuse to make personal attacks. He's got
a mental hard-on right now because Karen Smith is once again on the
loose, and he thinks he has a new "ally" in his cause. :-)

Hurtwit wrote:


I was referring to a previous boat review of his

***************

But unable to point out even a single inaccuracy, and unable to
formulate a contrary opinion,
you reduced your comment to your specialty, personal attack. Thinking
of buying a boat again, one of these days, Hurtwit, or are you going to
be one of the bitter old non-boating reactionaries with no purpose here
and nothing to contribute exept negativity and bile?

wrote in message
oups.com...
Hurtwit wrote:


I was referring to a previous boat review of his

***************

But unable to point out even a single inaccuracy, and unable to
formulate a contrary opinion,
you reduced your comment to your specialty, personal attack. Thinking
of buying a boat again, one of these days, Hurtwit, or are you going to
be one of the bitter old non-boating reactionaries with no purpose here
and nothing to contribute exept negativity and bile?


Sort of like you have been and are currently doing. I used to make fun of
folks names when I was a little kid. I see you never outgrew that. A
shame.

So who lives in Ohio besides JimH that is so obsessed with Harry K that
he or she would spend hours every day pretending to be HK? Only the
shadow knows......

My guess is it is Harry Krause.
wrote in message
ups.com...
So who lives in Ohio besides JimH that is so obsessed with Harry K that
he or she would spend hours every day pretending to be HK? Only the
shadow knows......

wrote in message
ups.com...
So who lives in Ohio besides JimH that is so obsessed with Harry K that
he or she would spend hours every day pretending to be HK? Only the
shadow knows......


If you think that I ever pretended to be Harry Krause you are indeed one
sick puppy.

If you think that I ever pretended to be Harry Krause you are indeed
one
sick puppy.

**********

Therefore my question, *who* lives in Ohio, besides yourself, who hates
HK enough to
spend all the hours it takes to create a dossier on everything he ever
posted and then pretend to be him? It may not be you. So the question
remains, who lives in Ohio who hates HK enough pull this crap?

When the question is posed with a "besides Hurtwit" that's called an
presumptive exculsion.
The field was narrowed to exclude you. However, if people then decide
that in their own opinion the correct answer is "nobody", then it falls
back on you- and sorry about that. (but not very)

It has been determined that the bogus Harry is posting from Ohio. I
believe there may be several million people in that state in addition
to yourself. One of them is in serious need of emotional help. I hope
he or she seeks it before it's too late.