Mystic, JGSCWW

[StevenBauer]

Are any of you bilgerats going to the John Gardner Small Craft Workshop Weekend June 2nd and 3rd? It should be lots of fun. This years focus is Raid boats and Small Reach Regatta info.
More here: http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=63582


Steven

Some of us are staying on the Conrad.

[S.V. Airlie]

That I know I can't make.. Sounds worthwhile but I'm gonna be stuck somewhere between Mahone Bay and Mystic.. Well not stuck but meandering west...

[Mrleft8]

That I know I can't make.. Sounds worthwhile but I'm gonna be stuck somewhere between Mahone Bay and Mystic.. Well not stuck but meandering west...
I doubt it.Why don't you just trailer the "Marjie B" up and take her on the raid?..... I won't be there, and you'd have a blast in a boat that actually floats! ;) (If you bring a rod,reel, and some bacon, you might even catch some dinner!!!!) :D

[StevenBauer]

We'll be heading down in the morning. Anyone else going?

Steven

[rbgarr]

Not this year, Steve. Have a great time and take lots of pictures. Claudia and Margo will especially like to see one of you (in your pajamas with your teddy bear?) in your bunk on the Conrad!

[StevenBauer]

Last time we we went to the JGSCW was in 2001, the kids were 6, 8 and 11. We all stayed on the Conrad. The kids and I had a great time, slept sound as could be. Mary, on the other hand, was kept up all night by the guy sleeping nearby with a severe case of sleep apnea. Every few minutes, all night long, he'd stop breathing. For a while. A long while. Just as Mary, a lifelong critical care nurse, was about to spring out of her bunk to start CPR he'd finally snort back to life and take a few more breaths. So she could lay awake listening for the next occurence. :eek:
I'm pretty sure she really meant it when she said she'd never do that again. :)

But my berth is confirmed for tomorrow night. Anyone else coming? Joe was planning on it but work got in the way.

Steven

[StevenBauer]

I was telling the sleep apnea story to the guy on the Conrad and he laughed and said "don't worry, he's in a separate cabin in the stern this year and he has a cpap machine." :D

The weekend was fantastic. The rain held off and Sunday wasn't hot at all. Lots of great boats. Fearings, sailing canoes, kayaks, skiffs, double enders, even a Queen Mab!

The real highlight for me was my first visit to the smallcraft collection in the old Rossi Mill building. They have over 400 boats of all kinds in there! Plus antique engines, old outboards and lots of other really cool stuff. You really have to see it to believe it. Everything from dugout canoes and original eskimo baidarkas to English cutters. Boats I've read about for years. And not just replicas of boats I've read about but the actual boat. That incredible Staten Island Oyster Skiff from the John Gardner book - it's there. Not just a W.P. Stephens boat - W.P. Stephens own personal boat! Boats by Culler, Herreshof, Alden, S&S, they actuall have one of the original Herreshof Manufacturing Co.s building forms for the 12 1/2!
I figured photography wouldn't be allowed and I had just come off the water so I didn't have my camera but others were taking all the pics they wanted. I won't let that happen again.
Oh yeah, another highlight during the main highlight - we were wandering around looking at all these incredible boats with people like Ben Fuller and Lance Lee. :)
I've got pics of the rest of the weekend, I'lll post some later.

Steven