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17'runabout construction pictures
Hi Guys,
If anyone is interested I just finished putting fifty pictures on my website of the runabout construction. www.resourcecreations.biz just click on the boat on the home page and again in the gallery. If anyone want more detailed pictures I would be happy to e-mail directly to you. I have over five hundred pictures of the construction in hi res pics. Tom |
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:21:22 GMT, "Delburt D"
wrote: Hi Guys, If anyone is interested I just finished putting fifty pictures on my website of the runabout construction. www.resourcecreations.biz just click on the boat on the home page and again in the gallery. If anyone want more detailed pictures I would be happy to e-mail directly to you. I have over five hundred pictures of the construction in hi res pics. Tom Nice job, really nice. |
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:21:22 GMT, "Delburt D"
wrote: Hi Guys, If anyone is interested I just finished putting fifty pictures on my website of the runabout construction. www.resourcecreations.biz just click on the boat on the home page and again in the gallery. If anyone want more detailed pictures I would be happy to e-mail directly to you. I have over five hundred pictures of the construction in hi res pics. Gorgeous. Even think of detailing the process and sending an article to Wooden Boat Magazine? |
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Actually there is a preliminary article being reviewed at WBM as we speak.
We will also be at the Portland boat show in the beginning of January and the Seattle boat Show at the end of January. Tom "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:21:22 GMT, "Delburt D" wrote: Hi Guys, If anyone is interested I just finished putting fifty pictures on my website of the runabout construction. www.resourcecreations.biz just click on the boat on the home page and again in the gallery. If anyone want more detailed pictures I would be happy to e-mail directly to you. I have over five hundred pictures of the construction in hi res pics. Gorgeous. Even think of detailing the process and sending an article to Wooden Boat Magazine? |
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:21:22 GMT, "Delburt D"
wrote: Hi Guys, If anyone is interested I just finished putting fifty pictures on my website of the runabout construction. www.resourcecreations.biz just click on the boat on the home page and again in the gallery. If anyone want more detailed pictures I would be happy to e-mail directly to you. I have over five hundred pictures of the construction in hi res pics. Tom That was spectacular, both the boat and the presentation. I'm not a boat builder, and probably never will be unless I move next door to someone like you. But you showed and told a good story there. I envy the joy you must have had working with a son and good friend putting that thing together. The photos did a great job of telling the story and showing the detail of the process. Kudos to whoever took the pictures - you, I assume. Lastly, I was impressed with what appeared to be your home built sound system! -- John H |
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"John H." wrote in message ... On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:21:22 GMT, "Delburt D" wrote: Hi Guys, If anyone is interested I just finished putting fifty pictures on my website of the runabout construction. www.resourcecreations.biz just click on the boat on the home page and again in the gallery. If anyone want more detailed pictures I would be happy to e-mail directly to you. I have over five hundred pictures of the construction in hi res pics. Tom That was spectacular, both the boat and the presentation. I'm not a boat builder, and probably never will be unless I move next door to someone like you. But you showed and told a good story there. I envy the joy you must have had working with a son and good friend putting that thing together. The photos did a great job of telling the story and showing the detail of the process. Kudos to whoever took the pictures - you, I assume. Lastly, I was impressed with what appeared to be your home built sound system! -- John H The construction of this boat involved a total of six people at various times. During planking we had four sets of hands on site. My shop while being fairly large was designed for one person full time or maybe two occasionally. Add a 17' boat and things tended to get a little cramped. All in all the experiance was a very positive one even as the projected construction schedule pushed out again and again. Until you have built one of these boats there is no way to estimate what it takes. At the end of every day I would just stand a look for a few minutes trying to visualize the end result, a vision that got easier with each passing day. I have built huge curved free standing stair cases and many large and complex feature details in many high end homes in our area, but none of that compares to building a boat of this caliber. All the original picture were shot with a Sony DSC-H1 digital camera in the highest resolution which I then copied and resized to obtain the web pics. Years ago I worked for a spin off company that was developing a new speaker system. When I went to work for these guys I had not seen the synopsis from the two "engineers" that had developed the radical new system. After several months working with the group, most of which had no audio expertise, I was able to read this now infamous document. To keep it very short, they made the following statement. " We have found a way to cheat the laws of physics to achieve a sound quality that far surpasses anything on the market today". My first impression was. WHAT!!!!! The laws of physics are just that laws!! They cannot be cheated or fudged or manipulated. Anyway my tenure with the company was short lived as the product as designed required a driver that was so expensive that a comparable pair of Advent book shelf speakers out performed these monsters. We built them out of black walnut veneered high density particle board and the boxes were beautiful but sounded like crap. The off shoot of all this is I learned how to build speaker systems right and got all the drivers I needed to build these monsters. The Sony receiver I originally crapped out recently and I found a Harmon Kardon factory recon unit to replace it. Huge difference in sound quality. The HK out performs the Sony by leaps and bounds. Tom |
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"Delburt D" wrote in message I have built huge curved free standing stair cases and many large and complex feature details in many high end homes in our area, I would be MOST interested to see some photos of your staircases!!!! The boat is amazing. cof42- AT - embarqmail.com Don |
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"D-unit" cof42_AT_embarqmail.com wrote in message ... "Delburt D" wrote in message I have built huge curved free standing stair cases and many large and complex feature details in many high end homes in our area, I would be MOST interested to see some photos of your staircases!!!! The boat is amazing. cof42- AT - embarqmail.com Don When I built the big curved staircase years ago all that was available were the old film cameras. I shot about twenty pictures of the project when completed and left the job site. It took a week to get film processed way back then. When I got my film back there were no pictures at all. My own camera was being repaired and the loaner pentax they gave me had an issue with the film advance so I had no pictures at all. About four weeks later I got my Yashica 35 mm back tested it on some mundane subjects and satisfied that it was working well contacted the builder to see if I could make arrangements to take more pictures. I was floored when I was told they had a huge fire and the home was totally gutted. It seems the home owner was a bit of a hobby mechanic and he was working in one of his jalopy's when a parts run became necessary. He had not noticed that the electric fuel pump just installed was dripping gasoline from the tank side fitting. The house was up in the rural hills west of Portland and his favorite parts store about 45 min away. Well as most of us do he started to shoot the breeze with some of his cohorts. All the while gas was dripping and building up vapor in the garage. Unfortunately the house was heated by an oil furnace located, you guessed it in the garage right next to the vehicle he had been working on. I think the rest of the story is self explanatory. Several hours later he arrived home to find several fire trucks and a structure engulfed in flames. Bummer Huh? He could have at least waited to burn it down until after I had taken some pictures. Tom |
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"Delburt D" wrote in message news:mEU7j.8048$581.4742@trnddc04... "D-unit" cof42_AT_embarqmail.com wrote in message ... "Delburt D" wrote in message I have built huge curved free standing stair cases and many large and complex feature details in many high end homes in our area, I would be MOST interested to see some photos of your staircases!!!! The boat is amazing. cof42- AT - embarqmail.com Don When I built the big curved staircase years ago all that was available were the old film cameras. I shot about twenty pictures of the project when completed and left the job site. It took a week to get film processed way back then. When I got my film back there were no pictures at all. My own camera was being repaired and the loaner pentax they gave me had an issue with the film advance so I had no pictures at all. About four weeks later I got my Yashica 35 mm back tested it on some mundane subjects and satisfied that it was working well contacted the builder to see if I could make arrangements to take more pictures. I was floored when I was told they had a huge fire and the home was totally gutted. It seems the home owner was a bit of a hobby mechanic and he was working in one of his jalopy's when a parts run became necessary. He had not noticed that the electric fuel pump just installed was dripping gasoline from the tank side fitting. The house was up in the rural hills west of Portland and his favorite parts store about 45 min away. Well as most of us do he started to shoot the breeze with some of his cohorts. All the while gas was dripping and building up vapor in the garage. Unfortunately the house was heated by an oil furnace located, you guessed it in the garage right next to the vehicle he had been working on. I think the rest of the story is self explanatory. Several hours later he arrived home to find several fire trucks and a structure engulfed in flames. Bummer Huh? He could have at least waited to burn it down until after I had taken some pictures. Of all the nerve... Im sure it broke your heart (in a way) when you first learned about it. I hate to sell houses I've worked on for 4-6 months. When I meet prospective buyers, Im in effect interviewing them and deciding whether I want them to have the house or not. My Dad is a great cabinet builder and carpenter. He once said he would jump at the chance to be Norm's helper. Im no where near as skilled as he but I'd love to start a project like that sometime. I wish I had the time/skill/patience for it. db |
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On Dec 11, 9:21 pm, "Delburt D" wrote:
Hi Guys, If anyone is interested I just finished putting fifty pictures on my website of the runabout construction. www.resourcecreations.biz just click on the boat on the home page and again in the gallery. If anyone want more detailed pictures I would be happy to e-mail directly to you. I have over five hundred pictures of the construction in hi res pics. Tom Very nice job! |
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