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Re: mistery boat
We had an Ogeechee boat that we used quite a lot when I was a small boy. I almost always had to sit in the precarious position atop the livewell. It was built by a gentleman from Douglas in Coffee Co.GA. my father's home. I do remember that the story was that my grandfather who was an tractor/auto mechanic got it in a swap for some mechanic work. I'm not sure what ever happen to it, but I do remember it having some rot in the stern by the time I was a teenager. Dad kept it upright on some bricks in the very back of our yard underneath an old army shelterhalf beneath some pecan trees. A few times each year either he or myself would pour a quart jar of water in it, to keep the cyprus planks tight. By the time that I became a teenager, cheap lightweight aluminum boats arrived on the scene, which was the death knell of many of the old wooden boats that had been built with so much skill and care.
We had an Ogeechee boat that we used quite a lot when I was a small boy. I almost always had to sit in the precarious position atop the livewell. It was built by a gentleman from Douglas in Coffee Co.GA. my father's home. I do remember that the story was that my grandfather who was an tractor/auto mechanic got it in a swap for some mechanic work. I'm not sure what ever happen to it, but I do remember it having some rot in the stern by the time I was a teenager. Dad kept it upright on some bricks in the very back of our yard underneath an old army shelterhalf beneath some pecan trees. A few times each year either he or myself would pour a quart jar of water in it, to keep the cyprus planks tight. By the time that I became a teenager, cheap lightweight aluminum boats arrived on the scene, which was the death knell of many of the old wooden boats that had been built with so much skill and care.
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