The key to fishing (is fishing where the fish are)

[Flitch]

What's not to love?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3361/4559878818_119fd2c635_o.jpg

Make sure you listen to the song!
http://www.workinglives.ca/music/Hand-Troller.mp3

[goodbasil]

So where is it?

[P.L.Lenihan]

Oh my...very nice! What kind of bait works best for a catch like that?
While I'm asking, how's your boat coming along? Resto all done?


Cheers!


Peter

[Paul Pless]

The key to fishingmust be having a really attractive deckhand:)

+1 on the song

[Larks]

What's not to love?




Well said, lucky man!!:)

[Jim Ledger]

Perfect!:)

[Roger Long]

What kind of bait works best for a catch like that?

A Mercedes and a beach house maybe.

[Flitch]

Oh my...very nice! What kind of bait works best for a catch like that?
While I'm asking, how's your boat coming along? Resto all done?


Cheers!


Peter

Thanks for asking. One more year to go!

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[David G]

Great looking fish. Looks like a fun day. And yes, an attractive deckhand indeed. Grand-daughter? Daughter? Wife? Mother? Does she sand? paint? Does she bait her own hook? Does she let you catch any of the fish?

[seayou7]

That sure does not look like catch and release...

[Flitch]

Great looking fish. Looks like a fun day. And yes, an attractive deckhand indeed. Grand-daughter? Daughter? Wife? Mother? Does she sand? paint? Does she bait her own hook? Does she let you catch any of the fish?

I wish I could say that was my fish but I copied and pasted it unashamedly from this commercial fishing site. Great site if you like PNW fishing.

http://www.salmontrolling.com/viewforum.php?f=17

Warning: It's easy to spend an hour or so looking at boat pics here!

They just don't make boats like this anymore!

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[P.L.Lenihan]

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Holy Cow Flitch!! I've seen homes that don't look that good! Absolutely gorgeous!

It isn't all that difficult imagining a chap living onboard and pretty much never wanting to go out again.Ever!


How about a little walk through explaining what we are having the pleasure of admiring and the types of wood used etc...



Cheers!



Peter

[Boatguy1972]

Beautiful boat, beautiful deckhand, beautiful scenery. Someone has their priorities well in order. thanks for sharing

[Michael D. Storey]

Lissen to the man, lissen to the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVWWmIXKxk

[Bob Triggs]

Adorable...

[Flitch]

Holy Cow Flitch!! I've seen homes that don't look that good! Absolutely gorgeous!

How about a little walk through explaining what we are having the pleasure of admiring and the types of wood used etc...

Cheers!

Peter

Hey Peter,
You will have to bestow yourself with some good ol Canadian patience! I can't launch a forum page on my resto until my website is ready! Coming soon.
Oh okay a little teaser... 40' ex salmon troller, gutted 'er from the wheel house back, steamed 52 new frames in
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2350986170_92b80ba98b_m.jpg
and replanked a third of 'er and then I laid 'er floor timbers across on the top stringers from the wheelhouse right to the aft end. (no ups and downs except into the V-berth forward of the wheelhouse). Then I built my walls 6' high but framed them right over the gunnels following her curves...
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... custom doors and windows on either side... a nice window out the aft end. Given the preponderance for all the cheap/free wood I can use, I selected clear vg old growth WR cedar for the wall panelling and clear vg fir and larch for the flooring.. I have so much of this stuff I burn it for kindling so I hand picked out pieces with heartwood and sapwood in them for that striped look. Matching hatches.... Oh and I made a nice cedar skylight with butterfly windows... new rudder.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2773/4049278182_43490b18dd.jpg
I also welded up a mast step and installed it in the boat for my mast and when I am done, she will have forward and aft booms with block and tackles. Rewired 'er. Lotsa Italian brass lamps... Lee Valley stainless in the galley...
Still to come, a bowsprit for my mermaid figurehead...http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2930002217_6fa532f497.jpg

finish the wedge seaming, sheathing the top deck in epoxy and glass, maybe sheath the hull (Vaitses method)... re-launch Father's day 2011.
I'll start a thread one of these days...
Flitch

[goodbasil]

Hey Flitch, where was your boat built and by whom?
There was a Japanese fellow here who had a great reputation as a boat builder but when the war broke out he was shipped to an interment camp in the Kootenays. After the war he stayed up there rather than return to the coast but he kept building boats and people were willing to pay the extra to have them shipped to the coast.
I was wondering if yours was one of his.

[Flitch]

Hey GB,
Nope. Mine is a Finish built double ender by Taivo J. Aro of Sointula BC. (1949).

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/3955009490_5409b060c5_o.jpg

[P.L.Lenihan]

Hey Peter,
You will have to bestow yourself with some good ol Canadian patience! I can't launch a forum page on my resto until my website is ready! Coming soon.
Oh okay a little teaser... ...http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2930002217_6fa532f497.jpg
I'll start a thread one of these days...
Flitch




Oh my!!Free wood, a ton of work done already, a skylight with butterfly windows,a few pictures of excellent work and a gorgeous figure head.......and ya think it'll just take some "good ol canadian patience" da ya?! :D:D

Sounds fantastic Flitch and very much look forward to your website..no rush...but do start a thread.It'll be a treat!!!


Cheers!


Peter Eagerbeaver