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This Columbus Day I spent in Columbus Ohio. I was delivering a boat I sold on ebay to a wonderful couple from Chicago. It is a 12 foot 1958 Whirlwind JR. A incredible little boat. I loved this boat. But got board of it. I was torn as to sell it or not. But the
... Read more.A huge standing ovation to all that put together the smaller boat shows around the county. While setting up and getting stuff going for the show, it all seems energizing, and then when its over. It hits. And the usual 4AM wake up your internal clocks alarm just kicks off. And right now, I am
... Read more.I am not sure where to start here today. We shot yesterday at around 6 and with over 400 images and tons of footage, its gonna be a bit time consuming to edit it all. To top all that off, the smile plastered all over my face and lack of sleep are not helping. But
... Read more.Today we feature KAKI again on a short tour of the water surrounding Reedville with Peale Rogers and Charlie Gilmore in KAKI a 1954 Montgomery Wards 14 Whirlwind type boat. She has been in the Rogers family since new, and as you may have seen, been preserved at the Railway by Peale. We captured the
... Read more.A huge thanks to Kent O. Smith Jr for the amazing images and story by Bob Hamilton, Exec VP of the Chesapeake Bay Chapter. Never quite sure what an exec VP is? If the P dies or is ousted for some sort of Cancel Culture Fopa, does the Exec VP step in? Or is the
... Read more.Tell me, o Yip muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Not thy Troy of many pervy photos. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea, lakes,
... Read more.Last week we found two WoodyBoaters. Or maybe they found us? Either way we found each other and its a true joy to see a father and son come together like mahogany and varnish. Mike Bodenstein father had always wanted a wood boat and Mike found this very cool Whirlwind on ebay. I think John
... Read more.Really? Giant Killer Bee’s from Japan now? Really? Can we just take 2020 and throw it in the toilet, and pump, pump, pump.. and move on. I am keeping my distance, trying all sorts of crazy ideas to keep this pandemic fun.. and now this. BYW, if you are wondering what in the hell I
... Read more.If you are starting out in the passion of classic boating, this may be a fun way to start. These little Palomino’s are cool and fun. This little gas sucker looks clean according to these photos. Of course you should inspect it. But for the price, not to shabby of a risk. Now one
... Read more.A huge thanks to all the great folks that came out and shared your hello’s and good wishes at this years Reedville Classic Event. The entire town was busy, restaurants full, and the weather did not disappoint as predicted. Heck, even Dorian took a turn out to sea and lowered to a tropical storm in
... Read more.What a cool boat, looks like a stall tactic to market to returning service folks and people to wait until this is made thing. The molded plywood hull design is very cool as well, and I wonder if this is a similar method used on Whirlwinds and other smaller boats? Those have held up extremely
... Read more.I was on a car web page the other day and the comment gang was squawking about a car that had sold at auction for $30K and how it was an extreme price for the car. Normally a $10K car. And I thought, shut the hell up. We all win if the price goes up?
... Read more.A couple days ago in a story about the boat shows growing and interest in classic boating possibly growing, we got one of the usual angry comments regarding how its an elite hobby and so on. These comments are always the same and tap into what is an ongoing image of classic boats. That they
... Read more.As we dove in deeper into the Newspaper Image of the fateful Zip race on Glebe Pt here on the Northern Neck, new boats started to emerge. And one of them popped out, and was the winner as it turned out. Leon Edwards Whirlwind! And we just so happen to have a 12ft Whirlwind here.
... Read more.Today is kinda a special day, it’s the beginning of September and that marks almost exactly 56 years ago that Zip had her moment in time. The race was in September 1967 and we went back to the exact location during the trial run and had some fun. This is where it all happened. She
... Read more.One of my pals around here was gifted a very cool wood boat that his family had in a barn for decades. To give you an idea how long, the engine was given away 50 years ago! At first without seeing the Sea King logo, I thought it was a Whirlwind. And I do think,
... Read more.A shout out to Kent O Smith and the internet for getting us some very moody images from Burlington Vermont at the pre events at the Big International. We are also working on some pre events at the Big Global at HQ. For example, I took 6 cans of trash to the dump yesterday. YA.
... Read more.My email was on overdrive yesterday from pals sending me this Rob Report article on Young people snapping up Vintage Wooden Boats. Link at bottom of the story. So if you want to skip my missspelled babblethon, scroll down. Then scroll past the click and look for Troys comment, and then your day will be
... Read more.Well the first Woody’s & Wieners event is in the history books. And it did not disappoint. Small, fun and silly. Like being immersed into the comment section. Now of course within 5 minutes of getting to the Railway to set up, I knew we were off to a wackadoodle start. RING RING! “Matt.. yes..
... Read more.To me THIS right here is all of us at our best, and most insane, which is our best. We can report that the Bob part is in Dover Ohio, home of Ernest “Mooney” Warther master wood carver Carved the Lincoln funeral train among many other things! to quote Bob himself. The “plan” is for
... Read more.If you have been following this week with the entire spontaneous Daisy Chain story, today we reveal the boat and “trip 1, done by long time fellow Woody Boater T Parsons. We kept the boat a secret because we wanted to surprise our son Hank, Berlin Bureau, SURPRISE! The boat is YIP YAP, a long
... Read more.If you tuned into WoodyBoater yesterday, you were all part of my incredible Fathers Day gift. My family had worked together to hack into Woody Boater and write a story about me. WTH? I have always been embarrassed by such things. As I child, I used to cry at Happy Birthday singing. I still don’t
... Read more.From time to time this subject comes up in the bowels of the comment section. Someone takes a shot at Woody Boater regarding most of our stories being about Chris Craft. Well, is that true, or Russian fake news being spread? Well. It is true. Most of the stories here do contain a chris craft.
... Read more.Over the past 12 years of doing this we have gotten so many wonderful photos and memories of all our fathers here. So as I was preparing today’s story, I found myself just enjoying the love and joy in all these photos. Enjoy them again, I can over and over. HAPPY FATHERS DAY! Kens photo
... Read more.One of the great joys of not giving a crap about spelling is you get to make up your own words. Sausage Sunday didnt seem right for today’s story on two shows that happened yesterday, and trying to do one without the other seemed like I had to pick favorites. So.. I made a smash
... Read more.So those of you I am sure will have this boat pegged. But for fellow Woody Boater XXXXXXXX and I we could not for the life of us read the blurred logo on the side. It has some Shepard in the style. But also that white area is very Whirlwind. But the deck is off.
... Read more.Over the past couple weeks, we have been focused on some monster shows, Clayton and Tahoe are whoppers for sure. But as we talked about yesterday, smaller shows like Harvy’s Lake can be small but very rich in boats, and then there is what could be the smallest show of the year. But one of
... Read more.Thanks to fellow Woody Boater and super supporter Dave Bortner from Freedomn Boat Service for reporting in Live-is from the Jerry Dyhrkopp Iowa Great Lakes Chapter, ACBS, Boat Show at Historic Arnold’s Park, IA. Take it away Dave! A glimpse of our future, and it is good! I simply have no excuse. We have some
... Read more.I will say that the last month has been a bit of a whirlwind. And today could be close to the end of it all. But I need to be on a 7AM flight home, and with the new entry screening it takes 3 hours advance to clear the airport. Which means 4AM.. And I
... Read more.Well, well, we cannot claim the smallest show in the universe anymore. After doing some Gozintas, were came to the bold number of around 50 boats at the show. Dang! When and how did that happen. There was even a crowd there. This is all very exciting stuff here in Reedville Virginia. The Reedville Fishermens
... Read more.This Fathers Day weekend started on Friday right after work, we ran up to Lake Hopatcong to visit the “Good People” of Lake Hopatcong and had a fun time drooling all over WECATCHEM and sniffing Stinky. Report on that later. Oh that glorious chrome. Anyway it was a drizzly day and like the fair weather
... Read more.Well, what started out as a fun back and forth to Buffalo for some wicker chairs turned into a whirlwind of a weekend. Heck a week of stories. We could do 2 full stories just on Bob Weavers amazing collection. And just may try. So to recap.. we left Friday AM at 5AM, got a
... Read more.Having been to many shows over the past 9 years of doing Woody Boater has made me somewhat burned out on boat shows by this point in the summer. At least the boat part, the people part is always amazing and is the fuel that keeps me going. There are countless folks I see maybe
... Read more.Last night the Boatress said, “did you read your sons website today?” Note, she reads his site and not mine.. More on that later. I looked at it at dinner and had one of those moments where you realize that it’s the dumb little things you do with your kids that can define them. Not
... Read more.I have now written 5 stories today that all are crap. Nothing I write is right, it all seems to frivolous, or just not appropriate. My two boys will be coming home soon from school. One tonight and the other next week. Home for the holidays. Never have I felt so lucky that I am
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