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Pogo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:30 pm

Stands for Repair & Refinish. Gotta do it every so often. It's a PITA, but such a joy when it all comes back together.

Ahhh, now to take 'er out and abuse her and scratch her up and let her bake in the sun forever and ........... well, see ya next time around. :roll:

Iamdamoder · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:29 pm

Wow,
What nice tumblehomes you have there. I really like a boat with hips. :wink:

neon14 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:18 pm

Man that is a beautiful boat. I have to agree. Nice hips

Shadow_Fox · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:42 am

WOW, that is a really nice ride. Must have taken a good deal of time (and beer) to complete. Really nice workmanship on it, I agree I like the "hips" on her as well.

Pogo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:21 am

Thanks fellas! But check out Dogpaddlin's now -- it's the same design, but his makes mine look like a dog to be paddlin'. :lol:

It's a NW Canoes Merlin, BTW. Mine was built from the old hand-drawn plans you had to buy, but now the plans are CAD ....... and 100% free, and that's what DP used. So it seems Toby does everything better than me. I hate him.

http://www.shop.northwestcanoe.com/Nort ... 947203.htm

Shadow_Fox · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:17 am

Nice wood work, but why put a replica fish in the boat??? :lol:

Pogo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:18 pm

No, no, no ..... that's a guaranteed genuine yeller cat (see 'im yellin'?). Ya want a wood boat with replicas decorating it? THIS is a wood boat with replicas on it:

Or not. Get in front and take yer chances...... :shock:

Dogpaddlin · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:47 pm

Pogo wrote:

Thanks fellas! But check out Dogpaddlin's now -- it's the same design, but his makes mine look like a dog to be paddlin'. :lol:

It's a NW Canoes Merlin, BTW. Mine was built from the old hand-drawn plans you had to buy, but now the plans are CAD ....... and 100% free, and that's what DP used. So it seems Toby does everything better than me. I hate him.

Damn, I knew I should have taken pictures of the Merlins next to each other the last time we went out! Now no one is going to believe YOURS is the ugly duckling! :wink:

All kidding aside, I would not (1) have built this boat if it weren't for Pogo and (2) mine would not have turned out nearly as nice as it did with out his tutoring and putting up with my constant ,and sometimes stupid, questions. For every post and update I did here on the BBF, there were probably a half dozen emails sent behind the scene.

Pogo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:04 pm

Half a dozen??? HAH. I went through that many keyboards answering dumb questions......

All kidding aside, they were all really really good questions, I swear. Now, when the heck are you gonna update your Colorado trip report??

Iamdamoder · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:27 pm

Pogo wrote:

No, no, no ..... that's a guaranteed genuine yeller cat (see 'im yellin'?). Ya want a wood boat with replicas decorating it? THIS is a wood boat with replicas on it:

Or not. Get in front and take yer chances...... :shock:

Shees, I thought the regular handgun crowd was over the top. :roll:

You wont be able to trim the OI with that rig (and youre size) without a couple sixers of Lone Star in the rear hatch. :lol:

Shadow_Fox · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:57 am

This is Texas, the only people who run around with replica guns are the young kids. :lol:

All kidding aside they are some very nice boats, not something I could do.

Dogpaddlin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:41 am

Pogo wrote:

Now, when the heck are you gonna update your Colorado trip report??

Probably right after we have Ben potty trained! I am sure you know I posted a trip report on the camping forum, I just have not done a performance report. I promise I'll get to it, I just don't know when. :oops:

Pogo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:05 pm

Whoops, missed the camping forum ..... don't check over there too often. I'll go have a peek.

DunkEm · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:06 pm

Pogo wrote:

No, no, no ..... that's a guaranteed genuine yeller cat (see 'im yellin'?). Ya want a wood boat with replicas decorating it? THIS is a wood boat with replicas on it:

Or not. Get in front and take yer chances...... :shock:

I'm sitting here trolling for ideas about a boat to build with the 8 year old son who had just told me he wants to build a "boat with lasers" when I come across this. His eyes got HUGE. :lol:

I'm think I'm going have a hard time selling him on any other design.

Pogo · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:40 pm

If you want a tour of the League City boat works, just drop a PM, will be happy to show you a variety of home-brewed boats. But no machine guns, sorry. They're now where they belong........

DunkEm · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:30 pm

pm sent!

preacher · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:51 am

you build planes also? Got to say your boats and other stuff all seem to come out beautiful. :clap:

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

Hey Preacher , It is great to see you posting.
How are you doing?
Ron

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