Showing posts with label Boats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boats. Show all posts
Monday, June 08, 2026
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Monday, December 29, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Saturday, September 14, 2024
I'm often entranced by people making things, or restoring them... but when making things, to see how expertly the plan comes together, and so many types of construction and mechanics are utilized in the make... it's so impressive
In this boat build, there is a lot of fiberglass work, electonics, remote control, engine, jetski propeller, guages and controls, fuel sytem, cable and levers, solar panels, steering and painting.
Compare this to the bubble top cars of the early 60s for example.
Just the creativity in the clamshell door openers alone... superb work!
Congrats to Mr Ho, Thanh Che!
This is a good example of why I have the tags "Innovation and Innovative"
Thursday, September 12, 2024
When there ain't enough room in front of the garages for a car, or boat, without parking on the sidewalk, and this person don't give a damn.
and the tickets will just get piled up under the wiper blade
I kid you not, this boat used to be sideways across the front of both garage doors, and not across the sidewalk, and that car was not around at all.. I posted the photo on the blog, 'cause it still looked ghetto AF
Monday, June 03, 2024
Ever watch the cool hydroplane movie (was there ever more than one?) Madison, starring Jim Caviezel and Bruce Dern? Here's the hydroplane they snagged the engine out of the static display WW2 fighter plane for
There are some other recognizable actors, like Jake Lloyd, famous for his role as Anakin Skywalker, and Paul Dooley, emmy winner with 217 roles and you'll know him but not where you know him from. Consider that Sam Jackson has only 216 roles.... that's how much these guys were EVERYWHERE in shows and movies
Anyway, the movie Madison, is abou the APBA hydroplane racing in the 1970s, based on a true story. It stars Jim Caviezel as a driver who comes out of retirement to lead the Madison, Indiana, community-owned racing team.
After an accident ends his career as a hydroplane pilot, Jim McCormick settles into life as an air-conditioner mechanic, husband and father in a Midwestern town.
The population of Madison, Ind., is about 12k, but it has been a fixture of national powerboat racing for decades, but the piston engine era was over and the jet turbine engine era was beginning. With life in the town being bleak enough as is, Jim, with the blessing of his wife and son, enters the 1971 Gold Cup hydroplane race.
Madison, Indiana, on the Ohio River, has sponsored powerboat racing since 1911 and began holding an annual race called the Madison Regatta in 1929.
Beginning in 1954, the annual July race became affiliated with the American Power Boat Association. Though Madison has a population of only 12,000, the Regatta maintains its place in the Unlimited hydroplane American Boat Racing Association series, whose other races are in Seattle, Kennewick, Detroit, and San Diego
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Wednesday, May 08, 2024
I think we are all fed up with stupid rules from stupid people, especially the govt, and love to see the underdog win one over against the Karens who insist on interfering with our simple joys in life. Like having your boat in your drive way.
A few weeks ago, someone received a letter from the city stating he needed to build a new fence to hide his boat from view of the street.
After reluctantly building the fence, he realized an artistic rebellious idea.
A painting of boat in a driveway next to a house on a fence, in front of a boat in a driveway next to a house!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Thursday, February 08, 2024
Saturday, February 03, 2024
Monday, November 20, 2023
oh I'm glad to tell you about THIS! If you remember the master carpenter and millworks shop owner (and Vietnam combat vet, 101st Airborne) in Eureka I posted about in Feb '23, well, his tv show has a new episode about restoring a historically mind blowing Higgins Boat!
this Higgins boat (landing craft) went through 7 different D days;
Okinowa, Sicily, Tarawa, Guam, Phillipines, Saipan, and the Marshall Islands
It was found in Shasta Lake, only due to the drought lowering the water reservoir until there was basically no water, only puddles.
The show is 44 minutes, on Max +, the HBO streaming service
I posted about the history of Higgins Boats in 2018 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/05/after-success-of-higgins-landing-craft.html
I posted about the tv show and Eric Hollenbeck, and his wood craftsmanship, 9 months ago https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/02/theres-tv-show-you-might-get-lot-of.html
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Minnesota neighbors own some of the country’s finest vintage boats
He inspired his neighbor, John Allen, who also owns one of the country’s largest and rarest collections of classic wooden boats. “I’d see Lee running those boats before anyone else was interested, and it kindled my interest,” says Allen, 67. His first acquisition: a 1929 Gar Wood triple-cockpit in 2001. “That was 29 boats ago.”
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
an amazing guy, with an amazing life of adventure on the Mississippi
He got started after high school with earning a living with his brother getting clams from the river bed as a diver, and then realized that he wanted to make a big difference cleaning the trash out of the Mississippi.
Since then, he bought a barge, expanded his operation, got some cranes, excavators, more barges, boats, crew, and now he goes to where the work is on the Anacostia, Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers ... making a difference, like during Katrina his crew went on down river, and anchored to be a huge help in patching roofs with a crew of carpenters, and delivering ice after Hurricane Harvey.
Recently, the crew helped the Cincinnati police pull 21 cars out of the Ohio river, https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/more-than-a-dozen-cars-pulled-from-the-ohio-river-in-large-scale-cleanup-operation and 10 cars out in Louisville Kentucky, https://www.fox19.com/2022/10/25/authorities-have-recovered-10-cars-ohio-river-last-week-heres-why/ and through the years he has put together the largest collection of "messages in bottles" in the world, PLUS is making pallets out of plastic bottles pulled out of the river jetsam.
Making pallets out of plastic bottles is genius... the scummy people that throw plastic bottles into ditches, sewers, streams, rivers, etc that the many floods in the midwest push downstream, well, they will never stop. And the plastic is then free to whoever cleans up the river
It's unlikely that Americans, or anyone else, will ever stop this fad of constantly wasting plastic bottles for water, so, there is not a foreseeable future where there isn't a couple million pounds of plastic bottles a year washing down the Mississippi and those are easy to grind down, and recycle into plastic pallets.
Plastic pallets last much longer than wood ones. Plastic pallets are RECYCLEABLE! They can be used about 400 times by trucking companies before they are broken, AND then they can be ground up AND REUSUED to make NEW plastic pallets.
43% of hardwood trees are cut down to make single use pallets. If a big company buys 100,000 pallets, that saves 12,500 trees.
NO TREES are killed to make pallets when recycling water bottles. The river gets cleaned up, the bottles get recycled, trees CONTINUE to make OXYGEN and contain carbon dioxide.
That, is a win win situation.
When working with Cincinnati to clean up the river, not only were 21 cars pulled out of the Ohio, but 4,153 pounds of trash from the banks of the river were removed, which included 177 pounds of plastic, 16.5 tires, four propane tanks and a refrigerator.
Interesting observation about his non-profit, is that of the crews, there have been 13 marriages and only 1 divorce
Kudos to John Deere for donating a long reach excavator!
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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