40, Maybe 50 Ish Days Til Lake Dora, Give Or Take A Weekish Or Two Ish

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Well, that crept up on me fast. Lake Dora is in about two months, or one month depending on when you want to go. Lets just say, you can go tomorrow and go boating. So thats the beauty of it all there in Florida. That and a very nice tax…
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Grand-Craft Shuts Doors For Good. Sad But True.

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I am not one to talk about bad news, after all our mission here is to promote the positive in the classic boat community, and of course the occasional disaster. Okay, maybe being towed in, okay maybe... WOW, I am sure gonna work on that.…
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Witch Paddle And The Sons Of Halloween, I Can’t Make This Stuff Up.

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We got in this wonderful heartwarming yet scary story fgrom long time fellow Woody Boaters Jeremy and Misty regarding a special event they do up in Michigan. I am so moving up there. These folks are nuts and I love it. Here is the Rolf's…
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A Spontanious Butler Boats Reunion

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The weather has been jaw dropping and everyone is using this moment to get their boats ready for the winter. And just pure luck we had three of the Butler Built Boats here at the railway at one time. The Glenna Faye, a wonderful 1940's round…
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Now That The HUGE Boat Show Is Over, Here’s A Story About A BIG Boat Show.

A huge thanks to Rabbit, and Dane Anderson for this report from Minnesota. Are you ready, cause you are gonna want to book rooms now. And also just be prepared for the milking. Like imagine Sir Plug Lot with serious professional help. Here…
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Bay Harbor From A Facebook Post. Just This One Time. WOW!

Fellow Woody Boater David Irvine from the Michigan gang shared some amazing images from the Bay harbor International, and HOLY CRAP! Kudos to the ACBS for blowing the universe away with all this mahogany magic. I mean, HOLY CRAP! I mean,…
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Let’s Do The Mich Mash Up.

The reports have been coming in and my bilge pump isn't able to keep up, Shannon, Scott, Chris And Julie have been doing an amazing job, pumping the images in, my problem is I have been actually working. As in meetings and traveling for…
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More Pre Event Images From The Pre Pre Event In Michigan.

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Today we finish up the unofficial pre pre event up in the Hessel area. A special thanks to Shannon and Scott for the amazing pics, and a reminder that it's all about the boats, people and friendship. And boathouses, okay and tools, gotta…
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An Unofficial Pre Pre Event For The Actual Big International. Kinda Like Christmas Ads Already On TV.

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A huge thanks to Shannon and Scott Knight for sending us all in a gazillion images from the  unofficial pre pre event in Cedarville/ Les Cheneaux islands?  Just pictures, no captions, no story. A sort of tease. So guess what? Ya! I get…
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A Groggy Morning In Woodyboaterville -Boat Show Hangover

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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…
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Reedville Ready At WoodyBoater Global HQ

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Last night the party here in Reedville VA the party got started. And the welcome reception got underway, about 40 folks showed up to the bar and yummy food provided by the Reedville Fishermen's Museum and some big giant fans, which kept…
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The Art Of The Race By “Knot That Jeff Gordon”, Starring Tommy Beatley

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We have weeded through over 400 photos and about 35Gigs of footage, and today we are going to show some of the crazy artsy and behind the scenes images from the big Beatley Edwards Reshootout. The race footage is going to take a little time…
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Zip & Yip, Are Ready To Rip At The Reedville Classic Boat Show

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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…
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Four Regional Shows This Weekend. It Ain’t Over Yet!

Port Huron, Michigan, Buffalo, NY, Minnesota, and Reedville VA Be there!  We sure love a good plug here and if it helps awarness of your gathering its a win win. Okay Port Huron - Boat The Blue event, Poster says it all. The…
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The 2023 Henkel Parade On Harsons Island Michigan

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Today we got a report in from Sir Plug-A-lot himeself, Greg Lewandowski from the Michigan Gang. What struck me was the color and history. The color of the water and mahogany is just like the old color images, which I always thought was the…
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Live-ish From September 1967

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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…
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Getting Zip Ready For Her Comeback Run

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While everyone was enjoying the Gull Lake Tahoe Hessel mash up of visual splendor, Wayne Bomb and I were getting Zip ready for her big comeback run. As you may recall. Or not. Doesn't matter, Zips fateful havoc wreaking run was on...wait…
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Dane Anderson Wraps Up Gull Lake In A Nice Bow.

A huge thanks to Duke Dane Anderson and Sir Steve Lapkin for an amazing job reporting in from the center of the classic boat universe this past week. This show is becoming an international event, and 100% should be on your 5 Gallon bucket…
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Shoot Out On Gull Lake.

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If you are tuning in to see another report from Sir Steve Lapkin today. Well, you are gonna get more than you bargained for. As in, not just one report, but two. That's right, today we are gonna try and mash together two reports, and two…
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“Tomorrow Won’t Come Soon Enough!” Managing Eleventh Hour Minutiae.

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And the hits just keep coming from Sir Lapkin of the Gull Lake - And a new word MINUTIAE and even more larger words, so you know I didn't write it. Take it away Sir. “Tomorrow Won’t Come Soon Enough!” Managing Eleventh Hour…
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Lapkin Live-Ish – “To Know a Place: Immerse Yourself”

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Steve Lapkin Reports in from Gull Lake GAAAAADZOOKS! Traveling is a passion, a way of living. It will help to find yourself, or it will help you to gain a better perspective of who you already are. You can never travel too far. And once…
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The Reedville Classic Boat Show September 9, 2023

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,…
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Late Live-ish From Hessel 2023 By David Irvine

I huge thanks to David Irvine for sending in this very well, presented and warm story. Take it away Mr Irvine. I spent five summers as a child on Block Island, Rhode Island, with my grandmother. I immediately fell in love with the water and…
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Longtime Fellow Woody Boater Captain Grumpy Reports Back In From Four Year Absence

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A huge welcome back hug to longtime fellow Woody Boater Randy Rush for a quick report in from Alton Bay. And you guessed it. No captions, so I get to get back in the saddle again after Steve Natale, and Kent O. Smith did such an amazing job…
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Continuous Clayton, Part the Second By Kent O. Smith Jr

Welcome to the second half of my report on the 59th Annual Antique Boat Show in Clayton (NY) in the beautiful Thousand Islands. I’m glad you all enjoyed the first part, and as always, I appreciate the kind comments. So let’s wrap this…
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Continuous Clayton, Part The First. By Kent O. Smith Jr

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This year was the 59th Annual Antique Boat Show at the Antique Boat Museum in Thousand Islands, Clayton, NY. The mark classes celebrated were Old Town, Correct Craft and Herreshoff. According to Executive Director Rebecca Hopfinger, it is…
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Just Another Sunny Day In, On, At Late Tahoe.

Another huge thanks to Steve Natale for keeping us all up to date and allowing me to milk the Tahoe event to Lactose Intolerance level. We don't have on the water stuff yet, and I am sure will. This has been more of a real time kinda report.…
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The Tahoe Trickle Becomes A Perlitta Too Pour

Another HUGE thanks to Steve Natale for keeping the reports coming in from Lake Tahoe. We have all sorts of wonderful images, and a wonderful appearance of Perlitta Too. Which has been a Woody Boater Fave for over a decade. Its amazing…
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Lets Do The Tahoe Trickle, Trickle….

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A huge thanks to Steve Natale for sending us in some Trickle, Trickle…. Yes the wooden boats keep trickling in to Obexer’s Marina here in Lake Tahoe as the Tupperware boats are being relocated. We have a full pool this year as a result…
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Steve Natale Does A Trickle Report From Lake Tahoe

It's Wednesday and the boats are starting to trickle in on Lake Tahoe. The Lake Tahoe show is the Pebble Beach of boat shows, and there is always some jaw dropping magic happening. The other big show on Gull Lake will also be dropping jaws…
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Syd’s Text Message Boat Show

We all know and love Mr Syd Marsdin, Marsden? Marsdan? One of those is right, I am sure of it. I think. Anyway, Syd has been to every show on the planet eart, from day one..ish, and is slated to go up in Space X to go a boat show on planet…
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Doing The Zip Flip, Git’n Ready For Her Debut.

At this years Reedville Antique & Classic boat show, the railway will be full, and hosting the reception on Friday. Hopefully this year I will be able to attend. last year I was blessed with Covid, which of course was  rather ironic,…
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Runaway Boat Wrecks Havoc At Glebe Point Races.

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We found this cool front page story in the Northumberland News the other day. YUP!  Runaway Boat Wrecks Havoc.... Have you connected the dots yet? It's okay,  but for me, this might as well have been a winning lottery ticket. Okay not…
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WoodyBoater Mike Call for Help, Any Mike Info? Mike?

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Today we are doing a shout out for Loooooooooooooongtime WoodyBoater Mike Mayer, regarding his true love.... Mike. Oh you know you want to read more. Your fingers just ready to click. And no way I am giving it all away here on the home page,…
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We Have Visual Proof Now there Was A Show In Algonac This Past Weekend

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I was starting to wonder if in fact there was a show in Algonac this past weekend. I mean the Michigan Gang is lightning quick with the reports and yet. All we got was Greg LEWANDOWSKI ... spelled right.. Anyway Greg plugging the Port Huron…
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Greg And Art Have Loose Screws, But Thats Okay, George Is There To Take Care Of It.

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WARNING: Lots of Screw Jokes here today. But actually the headline will make complete sense once you read through all this, and that of course invites the question. If it makes sense, do you have a loose screw? And if that is correct, then…
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ACBS Resto-Mod Category Now Official

We have been talking about this new Category for months now.  And behind the scenes at the ACBS it's been a tough debate. But today at 7AM the official notification came out on the ACBS site regarding the category at this years big International…
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Big Winners On Lake Hopatcong By Bob Kays And Some Algonac Heads Up!

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Today is a mash up of sorts. We just get some nice action shots of Elsie and Toots on Lake Hopatcong. Okay and maybe some extra bling from Katz's marina to get you all revvvved up for the weekend. BTW,…
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Late Live-Ish From St Michaels

A huge thanks to fellow Woody Boater Bob Hamilton for sending in some images from the Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the ACBS's weekend show. The show has been a Fathers Day tradition for years, and St Micheals and the Museum there are AMAZING! …
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I Had A Boat Show For Me This Weekend.

Dang, tons of boat shows this weekend. Hopefully some images will come in, I did get some from Maryland, and thats it for now. I will do a Sausage Show Day this week. But for me this weekend is about being at home, always has been, so I…
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Toots Steals My Heart, Mind, And Reignites My Passion

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Every time I think I am bored by all this, Bob Rice's new Century 1948 Sea Maid steals my heart. I swear it skipped a beat when I saw the photos. Or maybe it was the bacon I just had? Either way I felt it. And was happy for it. Bob Sea Maid…
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It’s Plug Your Show Day! You Know What To Do!

I have been getting a ton of emails, and lots of comments to plug shows. And instead of crafting a story for each show. NEEDLE IN EYE PLEASE. You can. Plug away in the comment section. And the best plug will get a feature plug. As in a story…
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Parking Lot Show, And I Didn’t Send Myself Captions.

Yesterday there was a small boat car show thing in Kilmarnock VA. As in a hodgepodge of folks that all kinda thing the same parked in a parking lot and catching up. Waynebomb and I made a quick drive by and ended up spending more time than…
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Teaser Saturday, What? You Think You Can Just Sit At Home And Have All This Fed To You At Once?

Yesterday was spent at the tent, and meeting folks again after a year and some even longer. One thing is for sure, no one has starved over the covid years. MYSELF INCLUDED. We all just kinda sit and stare at, at, well anything that moves.…
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WHOOPS Is Ready For Lake Dora, But I Am Not Sure Lake Dora Is Ready For Her. YIKES!

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Yesterday we did the final water test for WHOOPS, the restomod 1961 17 Chris - Craft Ski Boat that Wayne Bomb is bring to Dora. Now, she ain't perfect, as you may recall from last year, we had to kinda spruce her up. But she was built like a…
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10 Days, The Big Countdown Is Here, Are You Going There?

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It's officially the big countdown 10 Days. 10 Days til sunshine, summer, and boating with friends. Towing in, being towed in, over eating, over everything..ing. Of course its all hands on deck getting ready, but man oh man it's all worth it.…
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Classic Archive Look Back – Cruisin’ To The Old Club Of Harsens Island

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Today we are rerunning a story from 2012 in Algonac when we made the annual run to the Old Club as a reminder of how special it is to the classic boat community. Note that there are 16 comments from then, and yes Greg is there at 6:25 AM ----the…
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Late Live-ish From Summer In New Zealand

A huge thanks to our fellow Woody Boaters from New Zealand for sharing todays worldwide adventure. And another thanks for allowing me to make up the captions. The James Bond boat driven by actor Roger Moore in the film ‘Moonraker’…
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