John
You got a picture of me and my wife Kay in your picture.
Bryn Thoms' Don Hill "Standard" driftboat. That's me
right over the transom. "The guy in the neckbrace."
I'll get a better one today. I'll put in a brand
new one of me and my Rapid Robert. It's off the trailer.
We only have one trailer, and our Son Chad has gotten
our Hobie 16 put together and is using it after being
stored next to the "Toad" under the shop for 10 years.
Also going to put in a Pic of my wife, and what a Rapid Robert
is all about.

Pat Patteson
Molalla, Oregon

--- In MessaboutW@y..., jhkohnen@b... wrote:

Bryn-

I saw Rich's launch in the Register Guard at a price I couldn't

resist, so

now it's mine. I haven't got the engine going yet, mostly becuase

I've been

busy with other things, but possibly also because of an unconscious

fear

that it'll blow up. <g> I've been fooling with it some the last few

days

and will give it a try tomorrow or the next day. The boat is in

better

shape than your Cruiser, but it's still a diamond in the rough,

I'm not at

all sure that it'll float, even after it swells up. We'll see soon.

I've

wanted one of those one-lungers for decades! I told Rich about this

list,

but I don't know if he's lurking here. Are you here Rich?

Dorena gets its share of motorboating yahoos, but you should have

been at

Cottage Grove reservoir last Sunday, they were really churning the

lake up!

Fortunately most of them went home late in the afternoon and I

managed to

get in some good sailing. The winds at Cottage Grove Lake don't

seem quite

as fluky as at Dorena, probably because the hills surrounding the

lake

aren't as big. It's a small lake, but I'll probably sail there

again--

preferably on weekdays! Dorena can get some good waves just from

the wind

if it's coming up the lake, but nothing as nasty as Fern Ridge.

John McCallum at Applegate Boat Works has adapted a steamboat yawl

for

plywood stitch 'n' glue construction, he claims that's the kind of

boats

that the early McKenzie rivermen used. Does this look anything like

the

Helfrich/Pruitt boat, or was theirs a Kaarhus boat?

http://www.teleport.com/~boatshop/mckenzie.html

I picked up that book about Buzz Holmstrom, the gas pump jockey from
Coquille who ran the Green and Colorado alone in the '30s, from

one of the

authors at the Portland Wooden Boat Show, an excellent read! I

don't think

I'll ever be a whitewater boater, but I can understand what drove

people

like Holmstrom and Helfrich and Pruitt. The book is called 'The

Doing of

the Thing" by a committee of authors, despite which it reads well.

A few

geographical and boatbuilding errors gave me pause, and should have

been

caught by somebody, but they don't detract much from the book.

There's no reason to build a nondescript skiff when there are so

many plans

for nice ones out there. <g>

I don't have a picture of you (Bryn), but I've got one of your

drift boat

and Gloucester Gull.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:34:02 -0700, Bryn wrote:

That's Rich's Launch, I didn't know you (John) picked that thing

up. My

lapstrake '60s Cruiser's Inc. runabout is from him. I'm

surprised he isn't

on the list, well maybe he is, maybe we just don't hear from

him. I was

eyeing the launch when I went to his house the first time to look

over the

runabout. Did you ever the get the engine going? I was so hot

on launches

and one-lungers awhile ago, that I almost bought that from him, I

realized

that a free boat is bit easier to bring home that one you have to

pay for.

However, your boat from Rich floats, mine is missing the

garboards and

several other integral parts.

John - if you have a photo of me from the Depoe Bay fest, You're

welcome too

put it in the messabout file for the mugs.

I was at Dorena this Sunday, put in on the north side and rowed

the

driftboat out aways and had a great time swimming, it was very

nice, not too

many PWCs or drunken water skiers, just enough to make some

bouncy waves.

The kids loved it, it kinda felt like we were in the ocean,

granted the wave

action isn't real good for the shoreline, but nonetheless, it was

a good

time. I even got a very colorful compliment about my boat from a

drunken

party barge pilot with the kids and grandma right next to me. I

thought it

was quite funny, although I don't think my mother-in-law

appreciated his

language. I could see they were connoisseurs of good taste, cut-

off shorts

and Hams talls.
...
I really want to build a simple skiff, Ed monk design or maybe

Ken Swan, or

maybe a nondiscript thing from Gardner's small craft book, I'd

like to turn

a 50' troller into a troller yacht, I'd like to build a Carolina

Dory for

use in the estuaries, crabbing,.. Herreshof 12 1/2 would quite a

project or

the trailerable Joel White version, that would be a a great

daysailer for

the family. I recently dreamed of building the Prince Helfrich

and Veltie

Pruit boat, early Rapid Robert, that those guys used in the upper

Mckenzie

watershed. That's with spruce planks and all.

--
John <jkohnen@b...>
http://www.boat-links.com/
Nobody ought to wear a Greek fisherman's hat unless they meet two

conditions:

1. He is a Greek
2. He is a Fisherman <Roy Blount Jr.>