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I'm at the historic Rideau Ferry Regatta today.

Some pretty cool old wood here.

The event is older than Jer. Lol

Rideau Ferry Yacht Club | Regatta

Kevin

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Kevin ... DO YOU KNOW HARD IT IZ TO CLEAN SPIT OUT COFFEE FROM MY KEY BOARD. Happy Trailz Pal. BTW, First wood hull I ever got ah ride in waz ah 1938 18' Chris Craft My next door neighbor owned. Right after the war when they stopped rationing gas, lol. Jer
 
Kevin ... DO YOU KNOW HARD IT IZ TO CLEAN SPIT OUT COFFEE FROM MY KEY BOARD. Happy Trailz Pal. BTW, First wood hull I ever got ah ride in waz ah 1938 18' Chris Craft My next door neighbor owned. Right after the war when they stopped rationing gas, lol. Jer

Here's one Jer from the show the previous weekend, 33 foot Hackercraft.

Kevin

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Love those Mahogany Twin Compartments. The CC I got the ride in was Twin Compartment too but way shorter, lol. I bumped into a 1956 56' Wood Hull (solid Mahogany and Teak) CC over in Milwaukee with a good survey in the summer of '78 when I was hauling those Big Bad Boyz all over the country Out of Pompano Beach, Fl. back then. CC opened up that plant 'bout the time they built the '56 'cuz they couldn't get them to Lake Michigan the half mile from their plant in Holland, Mi. Couda' had that Bad Boy for 35K back then but chasin' the 48 and most of the Provence's, I wasn't too far away from havin' my ever lovin' makin' trips down to Toledo, gettin' up on an overpass above I-80 when she knew I'd be flyin' thru' and liftin' her dress and pointin' to one of Her and MY best play partz and yellin' "HEY STUPID, NEXT EXIT IT'Z TIME TO MAKE AH NORTH BOUND TURN" That fall I made a delivery under I-90 in Seattle to a 3rd generation family owned Wood Hull Manufacturing Company that refused to switch to fiberglass like the rest of the industry did in the mid '50s. So they went all over the country buying up all the "Blue Water Boats" they could find and guess what? There sat that '56 CC up on blockz in their Marina We had ah good chat about that little yatchit. I'm babbling Kevin and my memory's runin' wild so take care for now, Jer
 
Love those Mahogany Twin Compartments. The CC I got the ride in was Twin Compartment too but way shorter, lol. I bumped into a 1956 56' Wood Hull (solid Mahogany and Teak) CC over in Milwaukee with a good survey in the summer of '78 when I was hauling those Big Bad Boyz all over the country Out of Pompano Beach, Fl. back then. CC opened up that plant 'bout the time they built the '56 'cuz they couldn't get them to Lake Michigan the half mile from their plant in Holland, Mi. Couda' had that Bad Boy for 35K back then but chasin' the 48 and most of the Provence's, I wasn't too far away from havin' my ever lovin' makin' trips down to Toledo, gettin' up on an overpass above I-80 when she knew I'd be flyin' thru' and liftin' her dress and pointin' to one of Her and MY best play partz and yellin' "HEY STUPID, NEXT EXIT IT'Z TIME TO MAKE AH NORTH BOUND TURN" That fall I made a delivery under I-90 in Seattle to a 3rd generation family owned Wood Hull Manufacturing Company that refused to switch to fiberglass like the rest of the industry did in the mid '50s. So they went all over the country buying up all the "Blue Water Boats" they could find and guess what? There sat that '56 CC up on blockz in their Marina We had ah good chat about that little yatchit. I'm babbling Kevin and my memory's runin' wild so take care for now, Jer

You'll love this one then. It's a replica of if I'm not mistaken a 1931 Hackercraft that won the Gold Cup. It was 31 ft but the guy that commissioned the boat wanted to use a 4M2500 Packard V12 out of a Navy PT boat so they fed the plans into a computer and scaled them up to 41 ft to house the beast.

Kevin

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You'll love this one then. It's a replica of if I'm not mistaken a 1931 Hackercraft that won the Gold Cup. It was 31 ft but the guy that commissioned the boat wanted to use a 4M2500 Packard V12 out of a Navy PT boat so they fed the plans into a computer and scaled them up to 41 ft to house the beast.

Kevin

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Would love to hear the exhaust note on this one!!!
 
Cool stuff!

Back in '88, my parents and some family friends rented a houseboat (big, cumbersome pontoon job) and we ran the Rideau waterway. I never made it back there, even after living in MTL for ten years and traveling to TO often. Awesome memory though and I'd love to get up there with my wife sometime.
 
Kevin, I'm in awe. At my age I'd give BOTH STONEZ JUST FOR AH RIDE IN THAT BEAST. Good thing I don't know where shes moored. I'd go sit in it and refuse to leave 'til the owner gave me ah ride, lol. Jer
 
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