A Harry Bryan moment

[StevenBauer]

Last week while driving up to the rowing event in Rockland I had a Harry Bryan moment. :) We were driving along on the I-295 and we approached a car ahead with three (3!) Harry Bryan boats. A Handy Billy on a trailer and 2 Fiddlehead canoes on a roof rack. So we
are talking about how nice they look and what a great designer Harry is when my cell phone rings and it's a woman calling from Toronto to ask me about the Bryan designed Thistle that I built. She saw my posts here and had a few questions and was interested in seeing my boat in the water. I'm not sure she can make it here this season so I thought I'd take a video clip for all to see. Some of you may remember my posts from 2003 when I built Minnow:

http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=5708&highlight=thistle
http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=8264&highlight=thistle
http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=4982&highlight=thistle




So anyway I hope this works. I put a little clip up on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdOIXvfB3g

Let me know what you think.

Steven

[Thad]

I think serendipity happens and mind is a powerful force. And Harry is a good guy with good boats too.

[Paul Pless]

Oh that was cool, I've never seen one in action before.:)







Man, youtube could take the forum to a whole different plane, just wait till Smalser starts posting 'how to' videos.:D

[StevenBauer]

Sorry the video quality is so poor.
Here are some recent pics of the boat.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/p56783d3f59ef0070407b4ca13b480db3/ecef0625.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/pa7b5e74f1c6db6e336db9c866829d037/ecef064a.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/p559e8f207841090c823619df2a7b0b2b/ecef0662.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/pd02f15b53cf5c91bb1c521203fc7c3b1/ecef0681.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/p9f9889d7c3443fb1ea94d1575e6baa24/ecef0699.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/p8969eb88e56aa603b798f673e31df4e6/ecef06f2.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/pbd3d775a5125eda86da255eaebced332/ecef00b0.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/p6651008932dbeb3f1a85cfd9b67f428e/eceefea5.jpg

[Hwyl]

Completely cool.

[StevenBauer]

233 views here on the forum and 93 views of the video on YouTube. I guess lots of people have dialup. :) The video is a little shaky 'cause Mary took it from her kayak with a regular digital camera, not a video camera. It was the first time I'd taken the GPS out in the Thistle. It was amazing how quickly I could get up past 5 knots. Not that I could keep it there very long. :D But I could almost effortlessly maintain 2.5. :) If we leave the big pig roast early I may try to get out for a sail with the Rushton batwing sail tomorrow. I wonder what the GPS will show under sail.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid122/pa69344c83542601a5775e315e53c6b7c/f82ef270.jpg