Puffin 28 building site update

[Mike Keers]

Hey Gang,
Some of you know I'm building the Karl Stambaugh designed Puffin 28 Diesel Cruiser. After a slow winter, mostly waiting for 'epoxy season', I've resumed construction. I'm sheathing the hull with cloth and epoxy these days. The Big Turn-over could be in a few weeks. Maybe.

Anyway, I just updated the website. You can link to only the newest page from the main page, or check out the whole site if you have a mind to. It's nothing fancy, just following the building and thought processes with pics and blather.

www.personal.riverusers.com/~emkay/puffwelcome.html (http://www.personal.riverusers.com/~emkay/puffwelcome.html)

[imported_Daniel]

Arizona has a non epoxy season? I like this boat as well Mike, it is very pleasing to my eyes. Good luck with the turn over, I will be checking your site for updates.

[John R Smith]

Mike

good website, really quite inspirational. This looks to be a great project, keep us informed!

John

[ken mcclure]

Looking good, Mike! Last time I was through AZ, the winds were steady at 40mph with gusts to 60. I was driving a van at the time on the way through to LA, and was running with a group of big trucks. We kept to single file on the windward side of the highway, but were still pushed off the pavement several times. We all decided eventually to stop and wait it out, as it was getting pretty unsafe.

A couple of us had portable grills, so we took up a collection and I went and picked up some fixin's and we barbecued steaks and potatoes in the lee of a furniture van.

[Alan D. Hyde]

Looks good, Mike.

Thanks for linking to your well-done website.

Does Stambaugh visit your website and keep in touch with you?

Alan

[John of Phoenix]

Hi Mike. I was in your neck of the desert last weekend. We stayed in Bisbee at a new place right next to the Copper Queen called the Parana Bistro and Hotel. Neat place, great food, and wonderful people. I love that little town. Everyone is so friendly and just a little wacky. We had breakfast at the world famous Dot's Diner (http://www.theshadydell.com/dots.html) at the Shady Dell Trailer Park. Heather is the waitress/co-owner in the picture, and if you didn't know better, you'd think you were talking to Karen from "Will & Grace." What a kick the whole place is.

Check this out, a 38' Chris-Craft, in the middle of an old Airsteram trailer park, in an old 1880's mining town, a mile high in the mountains, in the middle of a desert.

Like I said, just a little whacky.

http://www.theshadydell.com/images/boat1.jpg http://www.theshadydell.com/images/boatinside.jpg http://www.theshadydell.com/images/dellall.jpg


CHRIS CRAFT YACHT
Be the captain of the ship without getting seasick. This 38' pleasure boat has been elegantly restored and decorated with vintage boating memorabilia. The cozy v-berth sleeping area has one bed while the galley is fully equipped, including comfortable sitting area and refrigerator complete with champagne. The salon or living room is elegantly appointed and has a vintage phonograph with a selection of 1940's records. There is a small bathroom and an outdoor sitting area on the stern. The private dock has a charcoal grill, table and deck chairs. Although permanently dry-docked, there is the illusion of being on your own private lake. Sleeps two - $150 per night w/2 night minimum.

All the vintage televisions work in conjunction with a VCR only. Video tapes of early television shows and old black and white movies are furnished in each trailer having a television.
Mike, where are you going to float that big babe? The Baja?

[Ed Harrow]

Geez, another person making me look bad. Building a good-looking boat and a good-looking website at the same time.

How do they do it?

[Mike Keers]

Thanks for the encouragement and compliments guys. To answer the various questions, yes Karl is aware of the sight, and we do communicate ocassionally. He asked for permission to link to it and mention it on the CMD site, but I don't know that he did. As far as he knows, I'm the first to build this design, so he has perhaps a bit more than a passing interest in it...altho it's an older design.

One reason I chose the design was because I want to be able to keep it on a trailer and haul it myself---not for weekend outings of course, primarily 'relocation'. I originally built it for Baja, but frankly, I've grown sick of Mexico (the politics and bureaucracy). I might try it down there 'just because', and in the larger lakes like Powell and Mead, and eventually drag it up to the Pacific Northwet, and try an Inland Passage adventure up to Alaska or whatever. Being able to relocate opens up vast areas...the Gulf of Mexico is only on the other side of Texas (only?!)

I've seen that Crissy advertised....what a hoot, eh? Beats letting them dry up and blow away like the two others here in town. We're about twenty miles from Bisbee by the way, near Nicksville or Palominas...you weren't too far away! Bisbee is a neat little town, worth a visit if anyone is passing nearby. From booming mining town, to near-ghost town, to 'artist community' now...as the bumper sticker says- "Bisbee-All gurus, no students". :D

And as for winter--we're nearly at 5000', so altho the weather is usually clear, it can get pretty cold in the winter....like down to 13-15 at night, altho the 20's are more common.