Well, three of us, my gig-owning friend Bill, my antique motor nut friend Charley, and me had a good road trip yesterday. First we stopped at the Steamup near Brooks. Lots and lots of neat machinery!

I looked for you John, but as you know, that was a big place, and there were lots of folks there, and I usually had my nose close to one of the engines trying to figure "How does it do that?" Also, I

John, I got my outboard motor back yesterday. It had dirt in the carb and a broken reed with one reed missing. Runs fine now. So I'll be there unless it rains too much. Don't care to play in the

Dick- I think we're going rain or shine, unless it's _really_ rainy and miserable. So far the weatherman says a chance of showers early then partly cloudy, that sounds pretty good. If the weather is

Pat- We were looking out for you, but of course with all that beautiful machinery to look at we were distracted more often than not. You probably passed right behind us while we were drooling over

The tin skiff flaked out again! :o( I'm beginning to think maybe he's not so reliable. <g> So I'm taking Pickle to Elk City tomorrow, and will have room for one or two passengers. Let me know if you

I am new to this stuff. I live in Milwaukie, and am starting to get interested in small boats. I keep hearing about Rivers West. What do they do? Is this a club or ...? I also saw where someone

Welcome aboard Rivers West Small Craft Center is kind of a boatbuilding group/school. John Kohnen will probably give you the whole story when he reads your post. Might want to try his boat-links

How went the Elk City trip? If I don't here from you in a week or so, I'll assume the motor repair didn't go so well, and send somebody to look for you. I wonder if anybody besides you know there is

chnookie- What's you name? We don't have any secrets here. <g> RiversWest just got a new Web page host after their previous one left town in a hurry. The new site worked fine a few days ago, I

The Antique Outboard Motor Club folks had their annual get-together yesterday and voted to have an outboard showing in Florence for the chowder fest September 22. We're going to combine the promotion

Sorry about the cloak and dagger. Didn't even think about it. Thanks all for the notes. Thanks also for the info on Rivers West. Kind of about what I hoped for and figured it would be, but I

yeah, the Rivers West group. I'm not sure if that was the name of them when my Mom took a small boat building clas from them fifteen years ago, but the Oak's Park group have been there for awhile.

We had a good time Saturday, Dick Mitsch and his brother Bob showed up with Dick's beautiful skiff Orca, and I was there with Pickle. The trip up to Elk City was a bit tedious at times, as we passed

Chris- Welcome aboard! What kind of boat are you thinking of building? This list isn't just for planning messabouts, we also talk about our various boat projects and dreams. Most of us have built a

Pat mentioned that most of this list's members are in the Eugene area. Not so, Pat. So far most of the members are from elsewhere; a couple on the coast, one down near Ashland, another in Lebanon, and

I have a huge list of boats I would like to try. They include: drift boat, drift pram, dories of all shapes and sizes (I like dories), yankee tender, some kind of whitehall or wherry, and just

I was ignorant, but I don't want to stay that way. I've met a couple of people on this list, but it was at Depoe Bay, and by the time I'd gotten to put names with faces, everyone kind of looked the

Pat- When I thought up the messabout list I imagined corraling all the small boat folks I'd met at the launch ramps on Fern Ridge so we could talk about getting together for messing about, you folks

OK, looks like their site is back up at www.riverswest.org . Good little review, sounds interesting.