Posted by wtozer on 12/17/99 from pm120.black-elk.com:
In Reply to: Beckfoot Motor Launch posted by Iain Hobbs on December 17, 1999 at 10:42:38:
As a child in the 50's and 60's in canada i remember most of the small motor launches or cabin cruisers had their steering behind the cabin. i grew up on and on the shores of lake okanagan, a 80 mile long lake about 1 - 1&1/2 miles long over a mile deep in places & warm enough to swim and once in my lifetime actually freezing over. so i did see a lot of these sort of boats. as a entusuiastic ransomite i even had a rather unique sailing craft - a wooden frame like a catamaran with inflatable pontoons unfortunately this was washed away in one of the more incredible storms the lake has experienced and by age 14 i had purchased with my own money (earned at my parents motel) a little sabot that sailed faster and farther me being older but could not compare for sheer thrills with my older craft. the inflateable had been at my grandfathers hardware store for decades basically unopened and i was allowed to use it because i could swim and no-one thought the parts were all there. they were i had secretly checked it out and gathered all the stray parts. we even had to paddle it down the creek for about a mile to get to the lake! eventually i stored it at a friends parents place where it met its unfortunate demise. a trip down memory lane guess i shouldn't read mixed moss before hitting the net. merry christmas to you all and enjoy the parties of the false millenium. i hope to meet many of you inperson at the international AGM. bill