Tell me you don't want to build this boat...

[Missourian]

Personally...I can't wait.

 

[Moonglow]

I don't want to build any boats.

 

[Missourian]

I don't want to build any boats.

But...but...but...you have the Elk River virtually on your doorstep...

 

[Wyatt earp]

Two words West system

 

[Desperado]

Never own a wooden boat,,,,, Too much maintenance

 

[Wyatt earp]

 

[Missourian]

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I wish. Unfortunately I don't have 60 grand laying around with nothing to do.

 

[Likkmee]

Better option for today

 

[Missourian]

Never own a wooden boat,,,,, Too much maintenance

True...but building your own boat for a couple hundred dollars. Can't pass that up.

 

[Missourian]

Better option for today

Sorry...all out of gopher wood.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Never own a wooden boat,,,,, Too much maintenance

True...but building your own boat for a couple hundred dollars. Can't pass that up.

It's not that hard my dad and I built a few back in the day

 

[Missourian]

It's not that hard my dad and I built a few back in the day

I really want to build this:

The Escargot Canal Cruiser - Small Boats Magazine

I was sitting in the cabin of the Escargot canal cruiser BONZO, a boat my son, Nate, and his friend Bobby Calnan built the summer after they’d graduated from high school. It was a winter evening—cold and dark outside—but I had a fire going in the woodstove and a few candles lit. I heard a...

smallboatsmonthly.com

But figure I better start with something smaller.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

This is more my speed....

 

[Shawnee_b]

Personally...I can't wait.

I have a couple books, packed so can't check the titles. Something building weekend canoe and weekend skiff. Skiff could be motor, sail or row. Had very nice lines on both. The canoe was more of a pirogue. I'll try to find them.

Here is the skiff. Amazon.com

The canoe. https://www.amazon.com/Building-Six-Hour-Canoe-Richard-1994-07-&tag=ff0d01-20?tag=usmb-20

Here is the canoe, for sale same page. New book price is outta sight now though! Used are priced good.

 

[Shawnee_b]

It's not that hard my dad and I built a few back in the day

I really want to build this:

The Escargot Canal Cruiser - Small Boats Magazine

I was sitting in the cabin of the Escargot canal cruiser BONZO, a boat my son, Nate, and his friend Bobby Calnan built the summer after they’d graduated from high school. It was a winter evening—cold and dark outside—but I had a fire going in the woodstove and a few candles lit. I heard a...

smallboatsmonthly.com

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But figure I better start with something smaller.

That's pretty cool. Great on the lakes with many inlets we have here. Like the ops litttle flat bottom though I prefer a bit more flare in my sides. Negates the "shoebox like rocking"

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

It's not that hard my dad and I built a few back in the day

I really want to build this:

The Escargot Canal Cruiser - Small Boats Magazine

I was sitting in the cabin of the Escargot canal cruiser BONZO, a boat my son, Nate, and his friend Bobby Calnan built the summer after they’d graduated from high school. It was a winter evening—cold and dark outside—but I had a fire going in the woodstove and a few candles lit. I heard a...

smallboatsmonthly.com

View attachment 441205

But figure I better start with something smaller.

That's pretty cool. Great on the lakes with many inlets we have here. Like the ops litttle flat bottom though I prefer a bit more flare in my sides. Negates the "shoebox like rocking"

You sorry bastard....I had to go look at the video again to see if I missed some little hotty with some junk in the trunk.

 

[progressive hunter]

Personally...I can't wait.

I'm getting ready to start another woodstrip canoe,, will try and post pictures when I do,,

 

[Wyatt earp]

It's not that hard my dad and I built a few back in the day

I really want to build this:

The Escargot Canal Cruiser - Small Boats Magazine

I was sitting in the cabin of the Escargot canal cruiser BONZO, a boat my son, Nate, and his friend Bobby Calnan built the summer after they’d graduated from high school. It was a winter evening—cold and dark outside—but I had a fire going in the woodstove and a few candles lit. I heard a...

smallboatsmonthly.com

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But figure I better start with something smaller.

I found an old picture on the internet of a race boat my dad and I built around 1981

 

[Shawnee_b]

It's not that hard my dad and I built a few back in the day

I really want to build this:

The Escargot Canal Cruiser - Small Boats Magazine

I was sitting in the cabin of the Escargot canal cruiser BONZO, a boat my son, Nate, and his friend Bobby Calnan built the summer after they’d graduated from high school. It was a winter evening—cold and dark outside—but I had a fire going in the woodstove and a few candles lit. I heard a...

smallboatsmonthly.com

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But figure I better start with something smaller.

I found an old picture on the internet of a race boat my dad and I built around 1981


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That's cool. Look at that old outboard, an Elgin?

 

[Crepitus]

Personally...I can't wait.

No more boats.
It's just a hole in the water you throw money into.