It kind of pains me to see...

[rbgarr]

the bows of a Hinckley and a Tumlaren turned into pretty bizarre liquor cabinets:

http://www.nauticalsofmarblehead.com/tables/tables.htm

[Alan D. Hyde]

Pretentious kitsch.

Alan

[Nicholas Carey]

What did those boats ever do to them?

[Concordia..41]

This has been on the Forum before. I forget who, but one enterprising Forumite calculating the vast riches were he to chop his precious boat to bits and make $2000 coffee tables

I believe the vote was to keep the boat and skip the coffee table plan.

- M

[rbgarr]

On another part of the website they mention chopping off old Chris Craft transoms and turning them into bars.

A local eatery here in Savannah did something like that and it was pretty sad. Even sadder is a 'Chowder House' in Boothbay Harbor that turned an International One Design into an outdoor bar complete with strings of Japanese lanterns... but at least they used the whole boat so I guess we have to take solace in that.

[Art Read]

"A miniature brass document tube with information and photographs about the boat's heritage scrolled within."

Sigh...

[Fitz]

Yah, the wood canoe book shelves kill me. Especially when a rather rare one shows up cut in half on ebay.

The shape of the canoe is not really conducive to shelving books either.

[Otter]

Thats sort of like stuffing your dead grand-dad, putting him in a butlers uniform and propping him in the corner with a drink tray in his hand.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]