What did you do today?

[Handy Don 14,060]

13 hours ago, Wayne0 said:

Good on the wood! I love a Cedar strip canoe!!

I drive by Lowell's Boat shop in Amesbury, MA. all the time. They have been making Amesbury Skiffs since the 1800s.

Still there on the Merrimack river. Great piece of history.

My best friend, now passed, had two Amesbury sailing skiffs and one motor skiff. We spent many an hour zig-zagging on Haverstraw Bay in the Hudson River going nowhere in particular! The boats went to family members who could store them and, I hope, are using them. 

 

10 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

We've got an Old Towne plastic kayck and a chepo Wally World kayck.    The ease of paddling them is a couple of quantum levels.  My wife uses the Old Town, and I am working pretty hard to keep up with her in the cheapo.

Been looking at plans and kits to build a wooden kayck.  I've  found a couple with similar hull lines to the Old Towne.  Almost ready to pull the trigger on a kit.

An Adirondack Guide Boat is terrific for solo rowing—startlingly fast and dry in calm and rough—but lovely for two adults plus child or one adult and two children in lake conditions. On the Hudson, I’ve been out in two-foot (trough to crest) breaking waves. At first, with its low-ish freeboard, I was quite apprehensive but as I gained confidence it became an adventure. Mine is the Kevlar version with cherry trim and a sliding seat. 

[davem1111 2,161]

6 hours ago, Wayne0 said:

Several years back, I sold my 10' Old Town Loon kayak. Stupid mistake.

 

I still regret not having the foresight to move the Old Town single and tandem kayaks we had before leaving my Ex-wife 14 years ago. Bought them both brand new. She probably just sold them. 

[davem1111 2,161]

3 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Went for a hill walk this morning. 

Yepp. Trina checked her All trails app. 3.69 miles and 554 feet Elevation gain.  

 

We've known about this cabin in the forest for years. Today we walked over to it. 

 

 

This made me curious.  Is it on private property?  Does someone live in it?  Or did someone put it there for anyone to use if they need shelter in a hurry?  

[adsm08 3,225]

10 minutes ago, davem1111 said:

 

I still regret not having the foresight to move the Old Town single and tandem kayaks we had before leaving my Ex-wife 14 years ago. Bought them both brand new. She probably just sold them. 

 

My mother has a saying about times like that:

 

In this house, we don't believe in divorce. We believe in murder, but not in divorce.

[Handy Don 14,060]

47 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

In this house, we don't believe in divorce. We believe in murder, but not in divorce.

Just don’t ever introduce your spouse as “my first wife.” 

[adsm08 3,225]

1 hour ago, Handy Don said:

Just don’t ever introduce your spouse as “my first wife.” 

 

We have a joke about that too, in my house.

 

My family, on both sides, usually gets to at least 90 in pretty good shape. My wife's family usually doesn't get to 70. I like to tell her my second wife hasn't even been born yet, gonna get me a Bill Belichick deal when she dies.

 

Then she hits me.

[ebinmaine 72,604]

2 hours ago, davem1111 said:

 

This made me curious. 

 

Us too!

 

2 hours ago, davem1111 said:

Is it on private property? 

 

It WAS, Yes... but that doesn't mean in Maine  what it does in other states. 

Maine has "Permissive Trespass".

We can access whatever we want to that isn't Signed otherwise or has Purple Stripes. 

It's now in a preservation area.  

 

 

2 hours ago, davem1111 said:

Does someone live in it? 

 

I'd say not full time but it's obviously taken care of. The plant life is trimmed around the building. 

 

2 hours ago, davem1111 said:

Or did someone put it there for anyone to use if they need shelter in a hurry?  

 

We believe it's likely a hunting camp.  

There are several across the hills in this area.  

It's not intended for public usage. The door is padlocked.  

 

[8ntruck 7,831]

90 degrees here today.  Only made about 1/2 a mile walking the dog.  He had maximum toung hang out for cooling by the time we got back to the car.

 

This afternoon, Mrs. 8n and I took the pontoon out to the middle of the lake, threw the anchor overboard, and followed it.  I think the lake has springs feeding it.  We know areas of the lake that have cold spots in the water - feels really good on a day like today.

[adsm08 3,225]

I finally fixed the exhaust leak in my Escape today. A few years ago I broke a weld on the exhaust taking the subframe out, and I've just been welding it back together periodically, but the metal isn't in great shape, so the welds don't stick well.

 

This week I had some time off, so I ran to the local junk yard and found a good muffler assembly for it. $25 for the muffler and resonator assembly, $14 for new clamps, 2 hours getting everything cut and bent just so to make it fit properly (original pipe has a catalytic converter in it, so I couldn't buy the whole thing). A new muffler, that I would still have had marry the cat to, was $150. I'd say it was worth it.

[ebinmaine 72,604]

10 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

I finally fixed the exhaust leak in my Escape today. A few years ago I broke a weld on the exhaust taking the subframe out, and I've just been welding it back together periodically, but the metal isn't in great shape, so the welds don't stick well.

 

This week I had some time off, so I ran to the local junk yard and found a good muffler assembly for it. $25 for the muffler and resonator assembly, $14 for new clamps, 2 hours getting everything cut and bent just so to make it fit properly (original pipe has a catalytic converter in it, so I couldn't buy the whole thing). A new muffler, that I would still have had marry the cat to, was $150. I'd say it was worth it.

 

 

You done good.  

 

We can't even get exhaust from a salvage yard here. At all.  

 

 

[adsm08 3,225]

5 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

You done good.  

 

We can't even get exhaust from a salvage yard here. At all.  

 

 

 

Is that a legal issue, or a practical one?

 

I went through four vehicles before I found one worth taking, and only because it had already been replaced. And that doesn't count the ones that had the wrong part because they had the wrong engine.

[ebinmaine 72,604]

Just now, adsm08 said:

 

Is that a legal issue, or a practical one?

 

 

I've asked in years past but don't recall the answer.  

 

No exhaust or brakes from anywhere. 

I only know one place that'll sell a used battery.  

[adsm08 3,225]

2 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

I've asked in years past but don't recall the answer.  

 

No exhaust or brakes from anywhere. 

I only know one place that'll sell a used battery.  

 

Well I wouldn't be buying used brakes anyway. Exhaust is admittedly dicey, but with the way the modern ones are built it's at least worth looking at. They don't rot out like they used to.

[Mickwhitt 5,129]

Big sports day today!

Our women football team won the euro championship in a penalty shoot out, very nervous until the last spot kick went in.

Also it was the last day of England v India cricket test at the Lancashire county cricket ground in Manchester. 

Me and Mrs W both went along for the day and enjoyed some fantastic cricket. 

Saw our England team close up and the valiant India team who played their socks off to force a draw. 

this guy is their number one fan, he travels to every game and paints his body in their national colours.  Over here he wears a lycra body suit as it's too cold for the paint lol. 

Mrs.W looking foxy in the stands before start of play. 

[Achto 29,391]

3 hours ago, Handy Don said:

Just don’t ever introduce your spouse as “my first wife.” 

 

I like to introduce my wife as "My ex-girlfriend." 

[ebinmaine 72,604]

Got this pole trailer finished up and tested.