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The photos are starting to trickle in from the Alex Bay. Steve Lapkin and Kent O. Smith Jr are working their magic eyes again. This is insane, here we are getting amazing photos from two of the best in one day! AHHHHHH, all header quality. And even better no captions. My head is gonna explode.
... Read more.A huge thanks to our reporters Rabbit and Dane Anderson for the fun report from the great state of Minnesota. It’s no Reedville, but I suppose one mans crab skiff is another mans BearCat! Take it away gentlemen. And best yet, NO CAPTIONS, SO.. Yup, I GET TO MAKE THEM UP. Bob Speltz Would Be
... Read more.Another year, another two weeks of large boat shows is now in the past. We hope you have enjoyed the wonderful talents of the Steve’s and Kent O. Smith Jr. I stand an aplaud the effort and skill. Our passion is a wonderful community for sure. Once again, i can not thank the Steves and
... Read more.A huge thanks to fellow Woody Boaters Steve Lapkin and Steve Natale for sharng some of the pre show setup fun at the big 2019 Lake Tahoe Boat Show. This is the largest and most important show on the West Coast, if not the country. Winning a Lake Tahoe Award is a major deal in
... Read more.Fellow Woody Boater Mike Lang sent us this wonderful barn Find story. We all love Barn finds. The time sitting waiting for you to love to help her shine again. That’s what we all live for. Take it away Mike! Let me introduce myself, Mike Lang from Kingston Ontario. Owner of Lang Wooden Boats, I’ve
... Read more.I know this past week has been a bit of over load of Stinky, WECATCHEM and Sweet Pea. I had the week off, and apparently so did many of you. So you spent your time doing what you should have done. OUT BOATING! It was the perfect week. A holiday smack Dab in the middle
... Read more.Yesterdays story on the Tarp Find Prototype Cobra erupted into a back and forth about an insulting comment made regarding the quality of wood and craftsmanship of the work being done on the Cobra. The reason why it became somewhat contentious. Is the tone that the comment was made. Not that it may have been
... Read more.Late yesterday ish, the Tarp Find Cobra made her way to her home for a while. The team at Katzs marina started digging and looking around. She was purchased from Photos. This is one reason we have not had the full picture…ironically. But things will start appearing shortly. Remember that gas tank on the other
... Read more.As we all drool over the amazing Tarp Find Cobra, other stuff is happening in Canada.. Like wet other stuff with huge water issues. A huge thanks to fellow Woody Boater Chris Bullen for sending in this wonderful report from their spring tour. And yes, we are gonna keep going on the Cobra. But this
... Read more.When it comes down to it all. What is the sexiest classic boat ever made? Now this may require some breakdown of boats and sex appeal. And to be balanced about it all. Are we talking Sexy to men, or women? I know that to many of us readers. 85% men are readers, when we
... Read more.Well as the season is about to get roaring into full speed, we thought we may need to have a refresher on propper wardrobe for your boating season. Here is the good news, it hasn’t changed in decades for all of us. It’s the rest of the fashion forward planet that has changed. But here
... Read more.Ugh, despite all the storm drama on the local weather station, we survived with 7 mph of wind. Sunny skies and NO BOATS. What the hell? So I was relegated to yard work, more yard work, and did I mention yard work. The highlite of the weekend was varnishing. Its got a little yellow pollen
... Read more.Yesterday we got some fantastic images and story in from Allen Mackin and Bob Kays who went on a trip to look at a “Boat in a boathouse” A couple hours later she made it back to Katzs Marina where Allen is manager. This is a personal boat for Allen, not a marina boat. And
... Read more.Thanks to the YNOT Yachts gang we have a real set of great photos to share today. Its always fun to see how different people see the same things we see. At one point we went out together and grabbed the exact same photos, of course theirs are so much better, I threw my camera
... Read more.One sure sign I am getting revived is that I havn’t been on ebay for an entire week! I am sure you all are thankful as well. Today we started the day by going to the show by boat. Never even got into the car. Now that is an amazing day! Lunch with great pals
... Read more.As we all are about to meet up again in Lake Dora in two weeks, There will be no doubt about the topic of conversations in club meeting. We Need More Younger People. Yes. And then the real elephant in the room topic will come up. Cost of Printing, Mailing of magazines and FACEBOOK! That
... Read more.Well… Yesterdays story on Ink clot Babes caused some drama for sure. Emails and some unsubscribers. I suppose touching on the topic of the use of Women as models caused some folks to check out! You all know that we are talking about ads in the 1950’s..right? Art? Right? And if there was a guy
... Read more.Okay, first let me just say that what I am about to write about is a loose interpretation of a wonderful talk given by Gary Van Tessal at the most recent gathering I attended. Gary had it down and read from manuals, so he was correct, my memory of it is that of a burned
... Read more.One of the advantages of not being burdened by the proper use of the English language, not to mention, any language, is you get to make up your own words. And today is such another day. introducing, Lackaboatrideitus. This is an affliction that causes anxiety, frustration over dumb things and general frustration building up that
... Read more.A huge thanks to longtime fellow Woody Boater and pal Bruce “Rabbit” Bildsten for writing some wonderful copy to keep us all going through the winter of unfortunate ebay stories. We shall all make it through.. But with only one boat? Take it away Mr Rabbit! And no captions on the photos, so I get
... Read more.A huge thanks to fellow Woody Boater Ned Protexter for sending us in this wonderful story about his barn findish. Man oh man, its so cool to see this going on! There is Hope! Long live Ned Protexter and his Century! Barn Find…Kinda 1963 Century Coronado – Lake Okoboji, Iowa Three years ago, I was
... Read more.Well, here it is, one more year of daily dribble. Bad spelling, poorly researched stories and every now and then, gold. And before we kick off the new year of 2019, how about some left over sausage tid bits. These are tid bits that didnt even make sausage days. We are literally using up all
... Read more.If you are into saving the planet, have we got an idea here on Woody Boater. See plastic trash is literally killing the ocean, Plastic is a wonderful product that can be, and has been formed into everything we touch in our lives. And if you watched the latest 60 minutes story, recycling is not
... Read more.Yesterday Jim Staib put this old original name plate in the comment section. Now, one may see a gold/grey treasure from the past that fits your very early Chris Craft, but this tag has far far more going for it. It’s a window into the heartfelt mission of Christopher Columbus Smith and the entire Smith
... Read more.One of the joys of doing this every day, is it can be a small break from a day focused on many other things for many clients and people. Doing this can be rewarding, and fun for me. From time to time though, work is so rewarding that it can occupy 100% of me. I
... Read more.Last week we did some stories on the Lake Dora Show and the “Dock Issue” We had gotten the news about 2 weeks ago, and to be honest, which I always am, even to my exposed stupidity, I didn’t want to put the story out. I knew it would get touchy comments. Which as you
... 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.You know we are getting official now, no more hype. Wait. That’s boring. How about this. In what is to be the largest and most SPECTACULAR boat show in decades if not all time. We bring you the amazing list of amazement that the Boat the Blue team has spent two years setting up! So
... Read more.Passion was in the air as thick as the Saturday morning fog at Gull Lake! While the show has been held for several years, this was the first year BSLOL managed the show, and we bring with us a specific set of beliefs about how boat shows should work. First and foremost, we believe boat
... Read more.Yes, there are a ton of other shows that happened out there. But we would be remiss without a Sausage Day from Lake Tahoe. Now we are also going to include stuff that happened while reporting on the show. Needless to say my brain was been ripped apart via email with all the cool stuff.
... Read more.We have been having fun with featured boat shows the past couple years. During the show we try and report on the news as its happening, and near the then, is when the real art comes out. These are the select shots that are far more than editorial coverage, they are shot through and edited
... Read more.Well, out of the fire and into the frying pan, No, wait, out of the frying pan and into the fire! Despite the fires in California, which have effected the sky at Tahoe, the show is on, and wonderful. We have a series of reports all coming in from our reporters on the west coast.
... Read more.What a day! Cloudy and warm, but no rain. And within 10 minutes of arriving, we were on a boat for a 3 hour tour. Luckily we did not become a stranded cast away! But we did have a boat full of buddies. The YNOT Yacht gang said those magic words. Boat Ride. Phil Andrews
... 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.When you think you have seen it all, of course, the eBay gods plop this boat on you. Thanks to Loooongtime WoodyBoater Don Ploetner for sending us this cool boat. Now, what really makes this cool, other than its quite possibly the only survivor, is the trailer set up. There is no trailer. The wheels
... Read more.This past Thursday our friend and Captain of all Insurance at Hagerty, experienced a stroke while at work. We found out and kept this private since it’s a personal thing, and as much as we knew you would want to know we felt it was up to Carla to let folks know. Carla reached out
... Read more.The Boatress has been there for me for over 30 years, despite the fact that today is her 35th Birthday. I really don’t understand the math of it all, and to be honest do not recall getting married to a 5 year old. Even though I am still 12. In honor of the Boatress’s Birthday
... Read more.Today around Woody Boater HQ is a huge day. I am sure it’s the same in your HQ. Over the years fellow Woody Boaters have shared their old photos, so today we thought it would be fun to see more. So here is to Mom, Mother, GrandMother, Mothers to be, and Momma’s all over Woodyboaterville.
... Read more.Long time fellow Woody Boater Kentucky Wonder reports in from Lake Hartwell, this group is a wonderful and very active gang of Woody Boaters and a sure sign, summer is here. Take it away Mr Wonder. More than 3,000 people came out to view the 56 boats. 35 Antique and Classic cars, 24 Art and
... Read more.Well, it finally happened, Facebook has gone off the rails and the other day,I deleted my personal Facebook account. As to the WoodyBoater facebook account with over 17,000 likes, we are keeping that, but will not be feeding it anymore. We need to keep it to protect our Copyright and Trademark, but don’t look for
... Read more.We have an update from Terry Fiest regarding the Lake Dora show and how its all going.Are you coming, looks like regardless of the dock damage many are showing up to show support and have fun. Honestly, for two years I have forgotten to even go out to the docks. The party is with pals
... Read more.As we hit our third year of ownership of WECATCHEM, our favorite boat of all time, we have been searching for more about her history. The seller knew some, but not a lot, and considering it had been in that one family since 1948 is a tad sad, but I get it. It was just
... Read more.Get out a mug of coffee, and your reading glasses, cause here it is. The official word on the Big Lake Dora show this March from Terry Fiest. And If Terry says it, it is so. Etc Etc Etc. Are you ready? Here goes! no Really, here goes.. The official Countdown has started. Ready? okay..
... Read more.Thanks to Mike and Kristen for sending in this whopper restoration story on their cool Century project! We need this sort of stuff this time of year! And the culture needs folks like Mike and Kristen!!! Take it away Mike and Kristen Woodyboaterville is all yours today! Woohooo! I love stories like this! While
... Read more.I saw this photo in a 1950 Chris Craft catalog and thought. Mmm that’s a cute woman. Okay, wait, honestly and sadly, I liked the hat first and then noticed her. Yes, maybe it’s my age, or a BW art photo thing, or maybe on some level it was the torpedo bra. But no, it’s
... Read more.A huge thanks to Kent O. Smith Jr for sending in this wonderful story about. B Roll! It’s always fun to get stuff from Kent, even his B Roll is A List material! Any story, whether printed or published online can only display so many photos. What happens to all the others that were taken?
... Read more.As you may recall we were all invited to visit Glisenti Boats by fellow Woody Boaters Davide and Luca Glisenti, and so we did for sure. In what appears to be an entire trip to lake Como and never seeing one Riva. But man oh man, we have seen some other amazing boats. The standards
... Read more.As part of our adventure out on the lake, we also were able to capture some of the beautiful homes and sights from the water. We stuck around the center of the lake and also took the ferry over to some other towns. The general feeling here by our group is that Varenna is the
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