How do you spell addiction?

[Noah]

Cause I think that I need inpatient help...

This weekend my dad came up to visit, and we got my "new" Penn Yan out on the water for the first time. It was a bit of work, but it ran great and didn't leak a drop of water. Pretty good for $300. Anyway, my dad was out in the Lyman in case something busted in the Penn Yan, and of course nothing did. At one point we motored over to my Folkboat, so we had 3 of our 4 wooden boats all on the water at once. All we were missing was the Whitehall. So all tied up together we had 60 feet of lapstrake...The first Lyman was $300, as stated my Penn Yan was $300, and the Folkboat was free...not bad. If we had the Whitehall out our total would have been 73 feet of boats. I think that qualifies as an addiction.

Our trip was mostly successful to. It did start to rain at the end of the day, and the trailer broke, but apart from that it was fun. Good to finally get the Penn Yan in the water though it is still kind of rough around the edges. I will take it out a few more times, but I think that it is going to go up for sale. It doesn't fit into my current boat needs, and I would rather it go to someone that really likes it.

Anyway, it was a fun trip. I need to work on the Carb a bit though...

Noah

[John Bell]

That's a right proper navy you've got there! But it sounds perfectly normal to me...

[ 09-22-2002, 07:56 PM: Message edited by: John Bell ]

[John R Smith]

Noah

have you got a picyure of them all together?

John
(I know it's a mis-type, but I kindof like the idea of a picyure)

[Bayboat]

Addiction? No way. Isn't it just normal to try to have as many nice wooden boats as you can? My fleet is about 90 feet long, but it's not all lapstrake; it's a mix of carvel, lapstrake and hard-chine plywood. A Hinckley Sou'wester 34(1947), a Shew & Burnham Whitehall (1970's), two El Toros (1966 & 1980), a Penguin (1963), and a newly acquired Herreshoff 12 1/2 (1930). My grown sons are sailing the Hinckley, the Whitehall occupies the boatshop (a.k.a. garage)for refinishing, a grandson has the choice of the little boats, and I'm having a ball with the 12 1/2. I dream of trading them all for a Malabar II and a long cruise.
I almost forgot the "Belle of the Yucatan," a 12' cartop with outboard. She's aluminum and thus really doesn't qualify as a component of the fleet, but since she's been on almost every bay, river and creek in western Mexico and reef crawling on the Yucatan Peninsula she deserves a mention.