Congratulations Graduates – The University Of Classic Boat Community Growth Or TUOCBCG For Short.
Working early mornings for the classic boat community – Roy Furchgott Photo
It was a tough week of lessons, and shameless ego photos of myself with a wrench, and the Boatress from Portrait Photographer Roy Furchgott, They are just too nice to not share.
I have spewed wisdom from my throne, and now need to flush. – Roy Furchgott Photo
And now we are all qualified to grow the classic boat community. Each one of you is now an official ambassador to our little universe. Each and everyone of you has the power to bring joy, smiles and meaning to the down trodden amongst us. The sad lonely empty souls that are unwoodyboated.
The Boatress and Big Bubba the shop truck – Roy Furchgott Photo
So go out there young graduates and share your knowledge, your infectious passion. Give rides, lend a varnished hand, and insights throughout the bleak winterness of unsoulful boats.
I am smiling inside – Photo Roy Furchgott
To all the pontooners, jet skiers, Clorox bottle boaters, and rubber dingers, there is hope, there is a life on the water that can be extended into your empty shelter. A Woody Boat will give you all the love you give it. It’s more than just a boat, it’s a soul first mate.
Splaining wisdom from the parts room. Roy Furchgott photo
Now get out there and go boating this weekend, In the water or in the Barn. GO! Go with the varnish gods and bring joy back to the universe.
My joy is always by my side. Unless I smell like gasoline. – Photo Roy Furchgott-
Is an ambassador a higher rank than a shameless plugger?
Not really. Shameless Plugger is the highest of highest of honors that can be bestowed upon anyone.
Are those portrait photos available in poster form? It’s been an interesting week in WoodyBoaterville.
some nice pictures and thoughts…plug away you deserve it!!! it’s also nice to put a face to people!!
just a 2cent thought.. been involved in wood boats, shows and clubs for close to 40 years. and the biggest takeaway is think about the people trying to talk to you at shows and events.. it’s always busy there and sometimes people come off wrong, with everything going on.slow down and enjoy talk to the kids.. young people there…it’s going to be the future of the hobby
I agree!
The best place to be at a show is on your boat. A lot of people will approach you and talk. They are usually fun conversations and can promote the passion!
I am thinking of doing the Saddam Husain thing and having them posted around town on the sides of buildings
Love the worn binoculars.
Taken off a Nazi Solder durring WW2 by my father
I’m happy for you both. What I see is a great couple with the best of our boating world.
Love your site Matt. Almost as much as we love our wooden boat🙂
Love the pics! I’m on your site infrequently, but seem to find myself here more often lately. I always enjoy the old wooden boats, and of course the stories that go with them.
Great photos. You couldn’t have better surroundings for backdrops. So along the same theme from this week, I spent the day going to our high school auto classes car show where students were displaying motors from the shop. Thinking they’d be interested in telling me about what they learned or were working on, the couple of boys I asked were disinterested in engaging in conversation so on to the tractor show at the fairgrounds. Those guys were of course much older and very interested in conversations about their tractors. So the lesson? I’m sure I don’t have to explain it to you guys.
I met a young couple this past spring at the Presque Isle Harbor Wooden boat Show that had just piked up a Century that needed some TLC. They were hungry for knowledge and as we all talked we learned that she was the motivator and he was ready to learn and get’er done. I sure hope they come back to the PIHWBS and we get to see their boat and visit again. Everyone had their two cents of advice to offer them including knowledge of this website. So Community grew by two more boat souls. I’ve been a boat soul as early as I can remember. Taking a piece of 2×4 and pointing the bow and pushing it in the water of a ditch next to the railroad tracks. As the years went by my father would take me with him to the boat shops in the area and then as a teen I was fortunate to meet and become friends of Don and Dorthy Morin whom always had one or two boat build or restorations projects underway. There is just something about boats, the wood and the skills of these folks that just keeps on ringing my bell. I love it and can’t get enough. The boat I’ve been building is in honor of that friendship of Don and Dorthy Morin and family.