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Re: hull extension in progress with picks
Re: hull extension in progress with picks
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR A BOAT-A-HOLIC
just a short story for yall.....this happened to me yesterday
yesterday morning i brought my bayliner to work....(i park it in the back alley so i can putz with it when its not busy).....
in between coustomers....i was in the b-liner trying to track down a faulty speedo, and other minor things........at about 3pm....kenny, my resin rep came to the store......we started talking about gellcoating the proj and other boat related things.... the delevery guys came in when we were talking........after he left.20 mins...i asked chez (the delevery driver) to keep an eye on the store when i was in the bayliner so i jumped in and got back to where i left off.......shawn floats called..(from iboats)...he came to town, so he gave me a call....(chez over heard the conversation).....it was good to finally talk to him...we made arrangements to meet....(i really want to see his big shiney new boat !)........i went back into the bayliner for a bit....just putzin........after a while, i sat down with the guys for a minit to chat....the phone rings.....some guy wants to see the bayliner...(its 4 sale)....so i ask the guys if they want to go for a boat ride for an hour or two...(we were previously talking about it)....that way....the guy on the phone can water test it...
so we pack up the store...i load the boat on the truck...check the connections and head out to the boat launch.....at the launch...there is a house boat tied to the dock that had partially sunk in last weeks high winds...(ill whip down there and get picks for dockside chat....its really bad)....well chez is a construction frame-er. so he started asking structural questions of what was happining with the badly listing boat.....its is literally held up by liening on the top of the pier posts.....so i described what happend to the pontoons to cause that bad of a list, and pointed out other structural things that had happened to it.
it was really too windy to go out but i knew i and the boat could handle it....so we launched and went to the calm side of the lake waiting to meet the guy for the water test..he remarked about how high the waves were and how smooth the ride was (i only got spray over the side a few times in 30 knot winds and bigger water) .....after we got to the calm area, i take chez and john water skiing....chez wants to learn the correct way to pick up a downed skier with out killing him....so i show him safetry procedures and what to do so its done safely...by this time....its 730 and the guy hasnt showed......chez asks me about the project.....he says....."whens it gonna be done" ...i say "as soon as you come grab a long board and start sanding"
......so he asks when im gonna work on it next....i told him.... "i was on it till about 11 last night and im goin there right after we get off the water for a few hours......
thats when he flipped.......he recanted all he had just witnessed and heard today. and decided.......IM A BOAT-A-HOLIC !
Re: hull extension in progress with picks
HOW TO TELL IF YOUR A BOAT-A-HOLIC
just a short story for yall.....this happened to me yesterday
yesterday morning i brought my bayliner to work....(i park it in the back alley so i can putz with it when its not busy).....
in between coustomers....i was in the b-liner trying to track down a faulty speedo, and other minor things........at about 3pm....kenny, my resin rep came to the store......we started talking about gellcoating the proj and other boat related things.... the delevery guys came in when we were talking........after he left.20 mins...i asked chez (the delevery driver) to keep an eye on the store when i was in the bayliner so i jumped in and got back to where i left off.......shawn floats called..(from iboats)...he came to town, so he gave me a call....(chez over heard the conversation).....it was good to finally talk to him...we made arrangements to meet....(i really want to see his big shiney new boat !)........i went back into the bayliner for a bit....just putzin........after a while, i sat down with the guys for a minit to chat....the phone rings.....some guy wants to see the bayliner...(its 4 sale)....so i ask the guys if they want to go for a boat ride for an hour or two...(we were previously talking about it)....that way....the guy on the phone can water test it...
so we pack up the store...i load the boat on the truck...check the connections and head out to the boat launch.....at the launch...there is a house boat tied to the dock that had partially sunk in last weeks high winds...(ill whip down there and get picks for dockside chat....its really bad)....well chez is a construction frame-er. so he started asking structural questions of what was happining with the badly listing boat.....its is literally held up by liening on the top of the pier posts.....so i described what happend to the pontoons to cause that bad of a list, and pointed out other structural things that had happened to it.
it was really too windy to go out but i knew i and the boat could handle it....so we launched and went to the calm side of the lake waiting to meet the guy for the water test..he remarked about how high the waves were and how smooth the ride was (i only got spray over the side a few times in 30 knot winds and bigger water) .....after we got to the calm area, i take chez and john water skiing....chez wants to learn the correct way to pick up a downed skier with out killing him....so i show him safetry procedures and what to do so its done safely...by this time....its 730 and the guy hasnt showed......chez asks me about the project.....he says....."whens it gonna be done" ...i say "as soon as you come grab a long board and start sanding"
......so he asks when im gonna work on it next....i told him.... "i was on it till about 11 last night and im goin there right after we get off the water for a few hours......thats when he flipped.......he recanted all he had just witnessed and heard today. and decided.......IM A BOAT-A-HOLIC !
