Topic: Boaters - post your photos!

[Stev-o]

It's boating season boys and girls, let's see your boats in the water [or on the trailer]!
Here's mine...plan on being on it this weekend.

[scrapvalue]

This was last year at the Petoskey marina.
Don't have it in the water yet this year.
Gonna have to get a lot warmer before I am motivated enough to deal with it. Hopefully it will be a nice summer up here.

[kirkn]

Oh, man,  I have so many 'action' shots of the kids being pulled around the lake.  Hard to choose!  I'll upload a few to photobucket and post 'em.

[BeSeeingYou]

These are all taken in the northern reaches of Lake Superior.  Boat is a 1985 Siruis 22

Lampton Cove Slate Islands


Horace Cove Slate Ilslands


Barr Island


Sleeping Giant near Thunder Bay in the background.

[BeSeeingYou]

How about little boats too.

Canoe trip in the BWCA

Curtain Falls on Crooked Lake


Shortcut on the Oyster River


Nina Moose River


favorite island camp site on Lac La Croix

[seaweb11]

Little boats are great!

[Formosa41]

My 1975 Formosa 41'

[seaweb11]

How's the teak decking holding up?    Beautiful boats.

[Formosa41]

Oh....ya know! The teak itself is great......whats under the teak....now thats a mystery. no noticable soft spots yet. The house sides an top there are definatly some soft spots.

[seaweb11]

Yeah, but wood boats feel and smell so good inside

[6pkrunner]

Here she is in all her pride and glory. CSL Plover. A 31 foot survey launch. Got a well seasoned cox'un and myself as hydrographer.  Plover currently has a Kongsberg EM3002 multibeam echosounder system. Listed as good to 200 metres depth, but I past 160 or so the data gets twitchy. Gotta call in the bigger systems for that. However I like to play in the shallows. The launch draws 1.1 metres and we've been there more than once. And that transducer is $130,000 to replace. We've surveyed when larger vessels - ships have refused to come out and play. To combat 3-4 metre swells the launch has the same inertial guidance as a 747. Takes out all the movement of the launch - pitch, roll, heave, squat, yaw. And gone are the days of having to install a tide gauge. A company called Omnistar has a multi satellite GPS add on that makes the launch a real time tide gauge. As a tribute to the AVG and just 'cuz I love the P40 shark look I painted her bow.



And her she is with her shipmate, CSL Pipit. The mothership CCGS Matthew carries 2 launches.



And here is a result of one are I surveyed in 2008. Its the Penguin Islands south of Western Newfoundland. The black holes are the islands themselves. Its surveyed to the low water line. This area is approximately 3 by 2 kilometres. Depths go from around 160 meters to 1.3 metre dry.

[Tom in Newcastle......Ontario]

One of the canoes that I built..this one is a 17ft Freedom(Bluewater Canoe company)

Made from cedar and cherry which I dropped on my property,had a band saw come in ,then ripped routered, glued then epoxy in and out

[markb]

Wow, some cool boats.  Here's mine:

I do charter fishing on Lake Superior out of Knife River in the summer.  If you're interested here's a link to my website:
http://www.reelescape.net/
If you're in the area stop by and say hello.  If you want to do some fishing I'll knock 25% off for any SOHC4er.
Mark

[wannabridin]

1986 Kawasaki 550SX.  i figured we could shout out to the REALLY small ones too!     too bad i had to sell it lasat summer...  MAN it was a blast to ride!!!  (not for any distance though!!)

sorry for the tiny pics, it's all i have on this computer at work

[kirkn]

OK, family boating is my hobby after vintage bikes, so here we go:

Picked this boat up 6 or 7 years ago for $1000.  A 19' Galaxy bow-rider family boat.  Here's our first outing, putting in the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach, FL:




Now living in Orlando, FL.  Here's how some of the boating trips end:  getting towed back to the ramp by a kind stranger for one malfunction or another...   



But when things go right, it's just a great time:



A few years back, it was time to replace the rotted interior with something a bit less plush, but a lot more user-friendly:



And they all have a great time.  And it's amazing to look back and see how much those guys are growing!!  All a bunch of fine young men, now.

[seaweb11]

It's in my front yard it must be mine

[wannabridin]

only $1000???  dang, good find!  cute jack russell too

It's in my front yard it must be mine

don't we all wish we had one!!!

[seaweb11]

Here are are a couple of my past boats/ and a present one.

The 1st Seaweb ,  Seaweb11  both sold now, and finally my speed boat that I still have

[strynboen]

here is a strynø boat..build in 71,,by a group of farmer/fisher vho deside to build a boat specaly for this area of small island and low vater,,inside are a 2 silender 4 stroke "korsør" gas  engine

[rustrocket92]

[333]

Any members here belong to the Wooden Boat forum?

[seaweb11]

I did for a bit.......
 

[wannabridin]

i didn't know that was you!  i've seen your ski over on either green hulk or xh20!  that's on some river after you got your paint job done and it was cold as hell right??

[mark]

How about little boats too.

Hydro-Cycle circa 1967-ish....



it's rated for up to 25hp so the 18 I got should be ok.

dude I got it from said it was "exciting" with a 10.

 

[wannabridin]

anyone have an old wet bike??