I just emailed the latest, and last of 2020, Coot Contact List. If you think you should be on the list, but didn't get it, let me know. The Coots' Contact List is a private list of phone numbers, emai

Saw this on the Pocket Yachters' group: "Greetings in COVID December 2020 "Having built a half dozen small craft in the past I’m interested in a San Francisco Bay Pelican. Rather than build one from p

Received my 2021 Coot calendar the other day and opened it up today. It’s already looking like a better year 🤣 As usual looks great John. Thanks for putting this together every year. Happy Holidays! C

Merry Xmas, Pete! Alas, it looks like there's not gonna be Depoe Bay show next year. <sigh> The Port of Toledo is gonna try real hard to put on the Boat Show in August. We oughta be able to do somethi

It's been a few years since I attended any Coot events, but maybe once life gets back to normal I'll see you again. Meanwhile, all the best to you and yours, have a merry Christmas and a great 2021. C

The other day Earl visited Zena Forest Products in the Eola Hills, west of Salem, and got some bending oak for a bentwood chair he designed. Now he's getting the shop ready. It's too bad we can't join

Well THAT was interesting. On Friday, Dec 4, I had a dry cough. Nothing special, just an occasional "huff." Saturday, Dec. 5, I had a runny nose that irritated my throat and eventually lead to a heada

I'm about to come into possession of an ODay 17 and I am wondering where to go sailing. Columbia is an option, but it's a ways away. I wouldn't mind heading south or west. Any ideas?

If you're in a position to make a charitable contribution before the end of the year, a slightly more painful way than Amazon Smile to support the Toledo Boathouses and/or the Toledo Floating Library

Island of the Lost is an excellent read. It details how two crews reacted to shipwrecking on the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand. Their wrecks overlapped each other, but they never knew of the

The Coot Calendar is at the printer, but I'm having some extra Calendars printed for procrastinators. Due to the lack of events in 2020, the 2021 Coot Calendar will contain previously unpublished phot

Pete in Port Hadlock reminded me of the Amazon "Smile" program, which lets you send a tiny portion of what you pay for any purchase to a charity of your choice. It's not much, but it's painless and, a

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Has no one wanting to build a boat snapped up this Jimmy Skiff II? Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 06:42:49 -0800 From: Richard Green <chaos5@...> To: jkohnen@... C

Due to troubles with his neck, Earl has decided not to build an Oz Goose. He thinks that watching the sails would just be asking for trouble. <sigh> But he'll make somebody a good deal, a _really_ goo

An internet friend sent me this link. I thought you might find it interesting. http://www.thecheappages.com/junk/platt/platt_chinese_sail.html “Throw out the radio and take the fiddle down from the wa

Pete up in Port Ludlow found this old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d30xCdBNjE -- John <jkohnen@...> To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. (W. J. Vogel) -- This email has been

https://lincolncityhomepage.com/charter-titan-lars-robison-dies/ Case Sent from not here -- Dirt

I talked to Debbie at the Port this afternoon and she says I should put a date for the Toledo show in the Coot Calendar --August 20-22nd. They're gonna try real hard to do some kind of show then, mayb

Mark N sent me a video file of an Old Oregon Field Guide segment with Sam McKinney and The Reach of Tide on the lower Columbia. It's a Good One. For a limited time, maybe a week, or until OPB comes af

Portland C’slist right now. Rich