Hobby Thread - November 22, 2025 [Buoyant Rex]

Welcome hobbyists! Ahoy! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on boating.

Last week's RV life theme spurred some to suggest that RV life was like boating life because of the ability to take your home with you.

Are you thinking "I don't know much about boats, I don't swim, and I still have JAWS trauma, but I am curious about boating. I'm eager to learn more. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome - even if you're into hording Compute! magazines and playing Hunt the Wumpus. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Pants are optional but swimsuits or board shorts are recommended. Puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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TRex is not wise in the ways of boats. I have never owned a boat. Nobody has nicknamed me "Admiral" or "Commodore." I understand they have a charm and have heard the classic adage of the happiest two days for a boat owner are the day of purchase and the day of sale. I have also heard the familiar advice of better to have a friend with a boat than have a boat yourself.

I also don't understand the difference between a boat and a ship. Seems like a ship is a bigger boat, but maybe that's what they teach in the Navy. The best explanation I could find on the interweb is: "A ship can hold a boat. A boat can't hold a ship." That doesn't explain a u-boat (or maybe it does).

Looking for help from the nautical Morons in the gray boxes on this one. If you're not nautical, you are welcome to join and further confuse things. Morons are particularly susceptible to canoe accidents, so be careful on this thread.

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I believe that JackStraw sent these photos. I think he built this boat. I don't know because my notes are bad and I can't find the purported original email. If I'm correct, perhaps he will join and tell his tale. If I'm incorrect, here are two random pictures of a boat with no context or story at all.

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Mandatory content for this theme.

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There are roughly a bazillion videos on YT about boating in all its forms. There are enough to give RV life videos a run for the volume award. Given my small dino brain and short arms, I've attempted to select a few of the less obvious videos for reasons of variety and novelty. I've also selected a few that might intrigue hobbyists in general.

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Handmade means handmade:

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Wow. A wood whisperer. This is fascinating.

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The 3D modeling for this video is only surpassed by how impressive it was to design and build ships like this in period.

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This qualifies as eccentric (and a little crazy) but I'm glad the world is big enough to accommodate the eccentrics. Long, long video so save this one for later. Serious skills and a LOT of labor but it is here cause it involves a boat. I really felt for the guy when he unexpectedly found 374 bronze screws filled with epoxy and plywood epoxied to tongue and groove boards (start at the 33:50 mark). Full disclosure - this episode has some boat restoration but a lot of other woodworking. Youtube may be a lot of things but it gives a platform for creators like this that wouldn't easily exist elsewhere.

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Maybe we'll stick with something on a smaller scale.

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Random hobbying, but finally found a good use for broccoli.

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How interesting can re-engineering a tape measure be? Turns out, very interesting!

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I suspect that some among the Horde may have made an Airfix Spitfire plastic scale model. You will appreciate this:

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an RV life theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

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Notable comments from last week:

Bonus MoMe news:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute something from your personal hobbying. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.

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1 Boats! We used to have one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 05:30 PM (uQesX)

2 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:31 PM (+qU29)

3 The hardest thing about having a boat is where to put it when not in use. Fortunately, we had a large side yard at the time. The second hardest thing is where to launch and getting out before everyone else.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 05:35 PM (uQesX)

4 I never had a boat but my dad always had some small watercraft.
Remember as a young kid he and my grandfatther (mom's dad )
Went down the river on day trips a couple times.
Later he had a small Sunfish sailboat. My dad was a avid scuba diver who volunteered for rescue service for years in my young days.

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:35 PM (+qU29)

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It would help if their sign showed an image of a sextant.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:36 PM (fxs8T)

6 Ahoy, Polloi!

Posted by: Spaulding at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (Wnv9h)

7 New Mr Chickadee video! First one in nine months.

https://tinyurl.com/yesu8kma

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (+mUZM)

8 Yea, that was my boat. Some friends and I built, mostly assembled, it.

That was her maiden launch.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (viF8m)

9
Oh dear, the oak video above mentions "bamboo." Don't let Ace see it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:39 PM (fxs8T)

10 Welcome Hobbiests
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:31 PM

Even after so many years, I still read this as Hobbitses.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 05:40 PM (Wnv9h)

11 He may have rebuilt that boat but he didn't build it from barrel to trailer. That takes many people. Looking for experienced boat builders now, know any, ain't got time to train them.

Posted by: Bob at November 22, 2025 05:41 PM (YiqZD)

12 Motorboating! Whether missy's boobs or hinder!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 05:42 PM (K2do1)

13 My time with boats and boat guys didn't involve any actual boating. My husband's hip replacement surgeries had limited his mobility. I got to ride in the Aqua Home when it was towed to the dock. Amd I spent a little time in it and the sailboat at the dock. And I got to see attempts to raise sunk boats and the successful attempt to remove the dock.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:43 PM (+mUZM)

14 I've heard that the two best days in a boat owner's life are 1) the day he buys it, and 2) the day he sells it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 05:43 PM (CHHv1)

15 Boats. My dad built racing boats and the engines they used. Spent my early life at a lake somewhere that was having a boat race.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 05:45 PM (sDNVV)

16 The boat builders I know are older and in OR. The younger guy I knew was working on boats for a company. Sorry.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:46 PM (+mUZM)

17 My dad bought a used wooden pleasure boat with an Evinrude motor when I was a kid. I went with him on it's maiden voyage on a large lake with various connecting bayous in Louisiana.

After about an hour and a long way from our launch point the motor decided to quit. My airplane mechanic father couldn't fix it and we were stranded for about 4 more hours before another boater towed us in. IIRC the boat was gone the next week and he never bought another.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 05:47 PM (KDPiq)

18 Sorry to have missed the RV thread last week. It's getting to be a busy time of year. Looking forward to seeing what I missed!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 22, 2025 05:47 PM (QGaXH)

19 Don't take the three hour tour.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2025 05:47 PM (pkeXY)

20 >>He may have rebuilt that boat but he didn't build it from barrel to trailer. That takes many people. Looking for experienced boat builders now, know any, ain't got time to train them.

5 of us actually. All of the parts were molded save for the t-top and the forward wet locker. We built moulds for those. The company that was building for me went bankrupt.

Called one Friday afternoon and said if we wanted the pieces, which I had already paid for, we had to show up by noon the next day and take them away. So we did. And then we put it all together. Made a few custom changes.

Came out great. Lots of fun to fish and fast.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 05:48 PM (viF8m)

21 I've got a jon boat. Ever wonder why they are called that? I have.

It's pretty cheap to maintain and operate. I even got it free. Then I gave it away. Then a few years later they gave it back to me. Still works great.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

22 Considering how many guns have been lost in canoeing accidents around here, I bet most Morons have a story or two to tell....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 05:50 PM (IBQGV)

23 Greetings hobby enthusiasts! Currently working on a Japanese Type 1 Ho-Ni Self-Propelled Gun. I think one of my favorite parts of model building is learning about the vehicles. These guns were built on the Type 97 Chi-Ha chassis and performed fairly well but most never saw any combat. Some participated in the Battle of Luzon in 1945 but most were kept in Japan, as part of the defenses against the impending invasion.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 22, 2025 05:50 PM (31p00)

24 "Sodium hydroxide, you don't want it in your boat."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 05:50 PM (LEuDt)

25 Cool boat JackStraw. I always liked to go boating. Had a lot of fun. Don't go much anymore, it got kinda expensive. But still go every now and then.

Posted by: Case at November 22, 2025 05:51 PM (5Je/N)

26 Willowed: Sakura, the stray cat, has a soft spot for a little hungry black cat who comes around. She's territorial about our backyard, but seems to tolerate not just the black khet's presence but its proximity.

Also, since she is a Norwegian forest cat, contemplating changing her name, maybe, to Freya. Opinions?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025

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Sounds appropriate. There's a long tradition among Siberian breeders of giving their cats Russian names. I broke that by calling my current Siberian "Dagny," a Swedish or Norwegian name that means "New Day."

Look online for Norwegian names and pick one that sounds good to you. There are a lot of Russian names that don't appeal to me at all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)

27 Watching the guy redesign a tape measure.
Now I feel like a expert at their use as wouldn't doubt owned dozens of them in my years.
You only rent them as they all break eventually. The tabe is first mostly.

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:52 PM (+qU29)

28 If you are from Louisiana, chances are you skied behind a 16 ft flat bottom boat with a 25 hp Mercury.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 05:53 PM (KDPiq)

29 Boats are great. It's the people that can, well...
Just prior to Mrs' health news, we were looking at 20+ foot long center consoles.
Plenty of very low hour ones on the used market for far, far less than new.
Prefer around 23 - 25', twin ob, and full size hardtop...

Ah well.

Posted by: man at November 22, 2025 05:54 PM (XuXeR)

30 >>Cool boat JackStraw. I always liked to go boating. Had a lot of fun. Don't go much anymore, it got kinda expensive. But still go every now and then.

Thanks. Yea, I've graduated to OP boats. Other Peoples.

It's a lot cheaper this way.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 05:55 PM (viF8m)

31 Yes, subs are referred to as "boats," even though they are pretty long compared to fishing boats and the like. I suppose a U-Boat or a US WWII sub could be lifted aboard a carrier, for example. Modern nuclear subs are much bigger, but as far as I know, navy people still call them "boats."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 05:56 PM (wzUl9)

32 Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

Always referred to them as flat bottom.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 05:56 PM (KDPiq)

33 I've heard that the two best days in a boat owner's life are 1) the day he buys it, and 2) the day he sells it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 05:43 PM (CHHv1)

I've heard that somewhere, too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 05:57 PM (uQesX)

34 In the mid 70s, Dad and my little brother built a boat for a 25 hp motor he had. It was a short, shallow thing that zipped across the water if it was flat. They had so much fun with that thing.

Posted by: huerfano at November 22, 2025 05:58 PM (98kQX)

35 Boats! This is all very buoyant of you, Mr. Rex.

Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:58 PM (RuTUS)

36 the day he buys it, and 2) the day he sells it."

Nah.

But there are two types - those who have forgotten to put the plug in, and those who will forget...

Posted by: man at November 22, 2025 05:59 PM (XuXeR)

37 In Louisiana the other ubiquitous boat besides the Jon boat is the Perot or pirogue boat . Like a flat bottom canoe.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:00 PM (KDPiq)

38 >>Boats. My dad built racing boats and the engines they used. Spent my early life at a lake somewhere that was having a boat race.

They build Outer Limits race boats right up the bay. You can hear those things coming miles away when they are ripping down the bay.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:01 PM (viF8m)

39 My grandfather who I mentioned built a wood boat when my mom was little. Supposedly on a closed in porch that everyone thought wouldn't get out without both being whole. But porch and boat parted ways safely. No idea what happened to that boat.

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:01 PM (+qU29)

40 I built more than a few modern warships in my scale model days. I found Revell cement in the tube was by far the best glue to use. You could apply it in pinpoint fashion, something hard to do with the liquid bottle cement that you brush on.

Also I painted my models and let them dry before assembling. Much easier -- though I guess with a ship model already molded in battleship gray, if you miss a crevice here and there, it might not show.

The weight at the bottom of the hull is a great idea. With one U-Boat kit, I wanted it to float in water. So I glued some heavy magnets into the bottom of the hull, to keep the conning tower from toppling the boat over. Sealed the few hull openings with putty, as I recall. It floated pretty well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)

41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJhmm3D3OY&t=581s

Do not. Touch. The boats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJhmm3D3OY&t=581s

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 06:04 PM (Wnv9h)

42 According to the family story, Dad went out shopping the day I was born. Did he buy a gift for Mom? Baby goods? Nope. Aluminum flat-bottomed fishing boat. Never was brave enough to ask what Mom's reaction was....

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at November 22, 2025 06:04 PM (0lzjf)

43 I'm thinking if I make a tiny little catapult out of popsicle sticks, and load it up with Sambuca dunked chick peas, and ignite the payload....I'm pretty sure I got a shot at taking down that broccoli tree house.

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:07 PM (dIske)

44 When JackStraw mentioned he built a boat, I assumed he carved it out of a big log like an Indian. I didn't know they had fancy materials like that in Rhode Island.

Posted by: bluebell at November 22, 2025 06:08 PM (79pEw)

45 I didn't know they had fancy materials like that in Rhode Island.
Posted by: bluebell at November 22, 2025 06:08 PM

They import them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 06:09 PM (Wnv9h)

46 I watched an episode of How It's Made where they manufactured EV Boats.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:10 PM (KDPiq)

47 JackStraw, a sound I remember well. I also saw some spectacular wrecks .

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:10 PM (sDNVV)

48 Muad'dib builds boats, or at least he did. He once sent me a picture of a beautiful wooden boat that he built. I hope he sees this thread.

Posted by: bluebell at November 22, 2025 06:11 PM (79pEw)

49 I recall that part of the excitement with a new plastic model kit, for me, was "What color will it be molded in?" The naval vessels were pretty much in battleship gray, of course. But earlier, the Aurora Movie Monsters came in different shades: Dracula in black (made it hard to paint his shirt white), the Wolf Man and the Frankenstein Monster in gray, the Gill Man in a green that you could use as the main body color, etc. More expensive car and ship models came molded in more than one color.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:12 PM (wzUl9)

50 New Mr Chickadee video! First one in nine months.

https://tinyurl.com/yesu8kma
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (+mUZM)

One of the things they did in Spain was to have a largish table with a long table cloth and a charcoal brazier under it for sitting around when the weather was cold. I am pretty sure they don't do that since the 70's but one of my profs talked about how his mom and aunts would sit drinking tea around them in the winter.
You had to use charcoal since anything that might spit sparks, like brushwood or pine would put holes in their stockings.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 06:12 PM (rbvCR)

51 I'll have you know we got indoor plumbing and conditioned air too, Ms bluebell.

Rhode Island used to be a boat building mecca. And then Democrats passed the luxury tax and drove a lot of it overseas. Still a bunch of boat builders here but a lot of it is custom or specialty sail and power race boats.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:12 PM (viF8m)

52 Other hobby stuff: A fellow I know on a pipesmoking forum sent me a new tin of a Virginia flake tobacco called "Hamborger Veermaster." Of course wags love to call it "Hamburger Beermaster," but the name means "a four-masted ship out of Hamburg, Germany." It is a German company, Dan Tobacco.

The stuff is mild but with a pleasant aroma. I smoke it in several pipes, but mostly in my German Vauen pipe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:15 PM (wzUl9)

53 "A boat is a hole in the water into which the owner throws money."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:16 PM (wzUl9)

54 I talked myself out of buying one of those heated Japanese tables. But I do have anunheated one. Just need to get ridof the couch and rearrange things for floor sitting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:16 PM (+mUZM)

55 >>JackStraw, a sound I remember well. I also saw some spectacular wrecks .

I bet, Ben Had. The owner of Outer Limits died when his boat flipped end for end on a race on a lake in Missouri.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:17 PM (viF8m)

56 It would help if their sign showed an image of a sextant.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:36 PM (fxs8T)

There is a Sextant Bar and Grill on Marine Drive near Portland, OR, but I don't think it s the one pictured, since the place is on the river side of Marine Drive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 06:18 PM (npFr7)

57 There’s a Wooden Boat Festival out here in Port Townsend every year.

Amazing boats.

When I was married, I had a 25 foot Catalina sailboat. It was awesome and we spent many many nights out in the San Juan Islands seeing them only as you can experience from the water.

Sturdy boat. We put the rail in the water several times. Boat kept on going and seemed to hummmm. I think she liked it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 06:18 PM (mT+6a)

58

I used to have a boat.

I got rid of her when I found out how much seamen she had in here...

Posted by: Elderly Git at November 22, 2025 06:18 PM (eeg39)

59 Still working on the current oil painting; put in an hour on it yesterday. It's now into the final detailing stage where I'm reluctant to touch it in fear that I'll screw it up.

Boats. Meh. I must take after my Dad, who got out of Kansas by joining the Air Force. When asked, why the Air Force, he replied, "The Army walks everywhere and I don't like the Navy's little boats." Apparently the Marines, who also use little boats, were not a consideration either. Yet my brother, upon retirement as a firefighter, sold everything he owned and bought a 55-foot sailboat. Crazy.

Posted by: tankascribe at November 22, 2025 06:19 PM (NtoJk)

60 >>"A boat is a hole in the water into which the owner throws money."

Offshore sailboat racing is standing in a cold shower ripping up hundred dollar bills.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:20 PM (viF8m)

61 It had a pop top, so plenty of headroom in the salon. It was perfect for us when the boys were itty bitty. Could spend two weeks easy up in the islands without getting claustrophobic.

We crabbed and fished and saw meteors and the Northern Lights. And lots of phosphorescence. So cool.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 06:20 PM (mT+6a)

62 It had a pop top, so plenty of headroom in the salon. It was perfect for us when the boys were itty bitty. Could spend two weeks easy up in the islands without getting claustrophobic.

We crabbed and fished and saw meteors and the Northern Lights. And lots of phosphorescence. So cool.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025

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It would be nice indeed to be out on a calm lake at night, away from the city's light pollution, and be able to see the stars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:23 PM (wzUl9)

63 I think the sailboat -ing would be amazing. I think I understand what JackStraw and nurse feel when they talk about it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:24 PM (sDNVV)

64 Hey, check it out. Norm Abram at "This Old House" and the "New Yankee Workshop" built a Clancy boat. Loved the show when it was on. Missed this particular one.

https://tinyurl.com/mwusm8ps

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:25 PM (dIske)

65 I talked myself out of buying one of those heated Japanese tables. But I do have anunheated one. Just need to get ridof the couch and rearrange things for floor sitting.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:16 PM (+mUZM)

I built a fruit dryer using a 100w ceramic heating element to heat it, and I made a "cat-warmer" by sewing up some towels into a terry-cloth cover for a seedling-heating mat since someone suggested the mat as a way to make a proofing cabinet for rising dough.
all in all I think the seedling mat would be safer for an under table since you could forget it and be mostly safe.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR)

66 If I remember correctly the Mythbusters made a boat out of ducttape.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 22, 2025 06:28 PM (kTd/k)

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Speaking of boat building:

https://tinyurl.com/49xbjhba

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:31 PM (XQo4F)

68 They used to have food dryers you could rent. I think you checked them out for two weeks at a time. They were big and made of plywood, with a lightbulb for heat.

Seedling mat would definitely work, especially if you use a covering of some sort. You can buy the heaters only but they are close to $200

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:31 PM (+mUZM)

69 66 If I remember correctly the Mythbusters made a boat out of ducttape.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 22, 2025 06:28 PM
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They did! I think a few of them.

Posted by: TRex - failure is always an option at November 22, 2025 06:32 PM (IQ6Gq)

70 Hey, check it out. Norm Abram at "This Old House" and the "New Yankee Workshop" built a Clancy boat. Loved the show when it was on. Missed this particular one.

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:25 PM (dIske)

I saw that episode.

Here's Jon Townsend making one:

https://tinyurl.com/bdcr2rvs

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 06:32 PM (uQesX)

71 I’ve talked to aliens a lot, but enough about my neighbors yard guys.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:32 PM (/ZNPI)

72 We be alls think down at the Brattleboro Womi s Reproducertive Cetnar thinks Michele Obana is be one of the moist beautifully womin in the zUSA Twoday...

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 22, 2025 06:33 PM (B83UT)

73 Seem to recall something about using flex seal to make a boat as well (over some sort of mesh.)

Worked fine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 06:33 PM (bss/y)

74 Nice you worked 'moist' into that comment about Michelle Obama, Mary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 06:34 PM (bss/y)

75 72 We be alls think down at the Brattleboro Womi s Reproducertive Cetnar thinks Michele Obana is be one of the moist beautifully womin in the zUSA Twoday..

Brown Sugar how come you dance so good !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mick J. from the UK at November 22, 2025 06:35 PM (J9q9v)

76 Now watching the 18th century warship

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (+qU29)

77 68 They used to have food dryers you could rent. I think you checked them out for two weeks at a time. They were big and made of plywood, with a lightbulb for heat.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:31 PM
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Think those were big in the days when people were growing sprouts in their basements for food too.

Posted by: TRex - rabbit food at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

78 Question? Would spraying an older tire side wall with flex seal make it last longer. Not on a car but a gator tire.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (sDNVV)

79 If you keep going back to the same bar for 45 years thinking it might a strip bar you deserve disappointment.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (/lPRQ)

80 5 It would help if their sign showed an image of a sextant.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:36 PM

Their old sign used to.

But on the new sign, the sextant is no longer extant.

They decided to go in a whole other direction.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:39 PM (HlyYF)

81 Would spraying an older tire side wall with flex seal make it last longer. Not on a car but a gator tire.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM

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Not wise. It wouldn't do anything to strengthen the sidewall.

A tire that's seven years old is at the end of it's safe useful life.
So how do you know how old it is?
Read this:

https://tinyurl.com/4fet5yst

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:39 PM (XQo4F)

82 Pillage Idiot, you were in my thoughts today.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM (sDNVV)

83 If you keep going back to the same bar for 45 years thinking it might a strip bar you deserve disappointment.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (/lPRQ)

It was the "BOTTOMLESS COFFEE" sign that tricked me.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM (rbvCR)

84 I used to race on a Cal 39. It was such an awesome experience. We did a couple of Swiftsure races on it and we were totally comfortable in gale force winds in the Straits of Juan de Fuca.

Crazy days.

And the party before the regatta at the Royal
Victoria Yacht Club was legendary.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM (mT+6a)

85 Bing up "redneck houseboat" images for a glimpse of the good life

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (/lPRQ)

86 Quarter Twenty, not to strengthen it but to seal up minor leakage.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (sDNVV)

87 Pondered spray foam inside a wheelbarrow tire that's flat
Figure no loss if it doesn't work

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (+qU29)

88 But there are two types - those who have forgotten to put the plug in, and those who will forget...

Posted by: man at November 22, 2025 05:59 PM

My father was both types of "those" people!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (HlyYF)

89 Skip, I put a solid rubber tire on my wheelbarrow.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (sDNVV)

90 86 Quarter Twenty, not to strengthen it but to seal up minor leakage.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM

In that case, I think it would be like chicken soup when you have the sniffles: it couldn't hurt.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (XQo4F)

91 37 In Louisiana the other ubiquitous boat besides the Jon boat is the Perot or pirogue boat . Like a flat bottom canoe.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:00 PM (KDPiq)

You reminded me of a pirogue story. Boudreaux sees Thibodeaux, and says Oh brother Thibodeax, my wife’s missin’ for two day now, I’m sick, I love dat gal! She kinda crazy but I do!” So Boudreaux say “it’s okay, we take the pirogue out, we look for her all night.”
So next morning he come back and say “oh brother Thibodeaux, I got good news and bad news, which you wanna hear first?” And he say “oh tell me the bad news, I gotta know” so Boudreaux say “Hokay, I gotta tell ya we found your wife face down a”floatin in the Bayou.” So T say “that’s horrible!!! How could you possibly have any good news after that?”
And Boudreaux say “well we got a whole bucket full of crab off her, and we gonna float her again tonight!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (/ZNPI)

92 The best explanation I could find on the interweb is: "A ship can hold a boat. A boat can't hold a ship." That doesn't explain a u-boat (or maybe it does).

I think that's more accurate with "does" than "can." A cruise ship is a ship because it carries lifeboats. A submarine is a boat no matter how big it is because it doesn't carry smaller boats.

Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (nhCoE)

93 75 72 We be alls think down at the Brattleboro Womi s Reproducertive Cetnar thinks Michele Obana is be one of the moist beautifully womin in the zUSA Twoday..

Mary, I like Big Butts and I cannot deny it !!!!!

Big Mike gots Back !!!!

Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (J9q9v)

94 Mostly amazed a 18th century sailing warship didn't sink straight away from weight

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (+qU29)

95 The Navy got a new boat yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/b4xsxbtj

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (XQo4F)

96 tire that's seven years old is at the end of it's safe useful life.

Stopped going to an El cheapo bicycle shop, one reason was the pre dry rotted sidewall tires and tubes "new old stock".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (1BL3C)

97 Realized that I was remiss in omitting the Top Gear amphibious car boat challenge episode from the content. Peak television. My apologies.

https://tinyurl.com/5ayku5z9

Posted by: TRex - For Belgium! at November 22, 2025 06:49 PM (IQ6Gq)

98 >>Mostly amazed a 18th century sailing warship didn't sink straight away from weight

If you ever find yourself in Boston with some free time go see the USS Constitution. It's beautiful.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:50 PM (viF8m)

99 82 Pillage Idiot, you were in my thoughts today.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM

Thanks for the thoughts!

Bride of PI had her big school play last night. Definitely their best show ever.

She has finally managed to build up a "drama culture" at her school. Kids that are not in her classes now ask if they can audition for her play.

Two fifth-graders in attendance asked if they could be in the play next year when they come to middle school.

I suspect Bride of PI is much relieved, but I can't be sure ... she is taking a nap now!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:50 PM (HlyYF)

100 94 Mostly amazed a 18th century sailing warship didn't sink straight away from weight

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM
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Agree. Somehow displacement and weight are different things. I enjoyed that video.

Posted by: TRex - avoid the brig at November 22, 2025 06:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

101 I been on the USS Constitution as a kid

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)

102 94 Mostly amazed a 18th century sailing warship didn't sink straight away from weight

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM

Modern warships are made out of steel ... they should sink even faster!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM (HlyYF)

103 Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (/ZNPI)

Hah.Cruel but funny.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM (KDPiq)

104 Bad day on a boat?

Not as bad as this. The worst maritime disaster in United States history.

https://tinyurl.com/5yvrn24d

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (XQo4F)

105 When I was an AF Nav on the B-52 I used a Sextant to Navigate from Korea to Guam.

This a warm spot in my heart and a lost art navigating off of the sun's position...

Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (J9q9v)

106 "Would spraying an older tire side wall with flex seal make it last longer. Not on a car but a gator tire.
Posted by: Ben Had"

I have injected tires with expanding foam insulation on wheelbarrows and carts. You have to drill several holes in the sidewalls to make sure you get foam everywhere in the tire. Some will leak out. Just cut it off after it sets. Woe lah, flat proof tires.

Ride quality may be affected. Mileage may vary.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (vFG9F)

107 Pillage Idiot, Pierre Dulaine brought ballroom dancing to NYC schools. Mrs PI is inspiring those that will benefit from the inspiration. Bless her.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (sDNVV)

108 Thanks for the dandy Hobby Thread, T-Rex!

Hubs owned a bass boat and loved fishing in South Texas. Nowadays he fly fishes for trout in mountain lakes and rivers. And enjoys it far more than the bass fishing.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 06:54 PM (kB9dk)

109 I used to use the opposite line when I went to a strip club.

I'd tell the ladies I didn't know this was a strip club. I only came in to get a donut and a coffee.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:55 PM (KDPiq)

110 108 Thanks for the dandy Hobby Thread, T-Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 06:54 PM
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You're welcome. Good day to you!

Posted by: TRex - water resistant dino at November 22, 2025 06:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

111 Love to watch boats of any kind...went on friends' boat on the Atlantic, and it was big fun. However, when friends in CA invited me I suffered dreadful sea sickness every single time. And that was enough that I just watch from shore now. But when we get to TN, I'll be more than happy to sail on a friend's boat on the TN River!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (IQ6Gq)

112 Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (J9q9v)

What years ?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (KDPiq)

113 98 >>Mostly amazed a 18th century sailing warship didn't sink straight away from weight.

The Mary Rose, the first truly dedicated warship built by Henry VIII, had fearsome armament, but turned just after firing its cannons. A gust of wind caught it while the gunports were open, it rolled onto its side and went straight to the bottom with most of its crew.
That kind of thing happened to the British several times with experimental ships; was reading this week about “The Captain” , the first British ship with rotating turrets for its guns. Same date befell it, lost on a trial run with all hands.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (/ZNPI)

114 Can you put a tube in it, Ben Had?

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (vFG9F)

115 TRex, we gotta coordinate! I would have sent you a picture of a 4 year old me sitting in a racing boat so we could all have a good laugh.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM (sDNVV)

116 101 I been on the USS Constitution as a kid

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM

I have been on as a 6'3" tall adult. I believe the Navy height limitation at the time the Constitution was built was around 5'4". The shipbuilders designed to a very tight tolerance.

I have no idea how David Robinson served on a submarine!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM (HlyYF)

117 The Mrs had a ski boat when I met her. She sold it to pay for our wedding. I told her I would buy her another one day. Never did. Did pay off her maxed out credit cards though.

Posted by: Javems at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM (8I4hW)

118 115 TRex, we gotta coordinate! I would have sent you a picture of a 4 year old me sitting in a racing boat so we could all have a good laugh.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM
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Never too late!! The Hobby Thread mailbox is open! Especially for baby Ben Had pictures!

Posted by: TRex - who lives in a pineapple under the sea? at November 22, 2025 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

119 I have no idea how David Robinson served on a submarine!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Truth!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 22, 2025 07:00 PM (IQ6Gq)

120 fd, I hate tubed tires. The back tires in my gator keep losing air and it has to be from small leaks in the sidewall.

I am going to try the flex seal and report back

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:00 PM (sDNVV)

121 120 I am going to try the flex seal and report back

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:00 PM
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Phil Swift approved!

Posted by: TRex - because it works! at November 22, 2025 07:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

122 I loved tubed tires because, staying on theme, you could make one hell of a raft with them .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)

123 My former son-in-law recently got a new boat, the main purpose of which is to get my grandson and himself into the most advantageous position to hook bass. (The fish, not the stand-up kind that Mr. Throckmorten believes is an immediate indication that the band will be good.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 22, 2025 07:05 PM (ZwntJ)

124 My father had boats when we were growing up. He sold the last one when jersey just couldn't keep their filthy hands off the sport and started making people get licenses.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:05 PM (snZF9)

125 The Mary Rose, the first truly dedicated warship built by Henry VIII, had fearsome armament, but turned just after firing its cannons. A gust of wind caught it while the gunports were open, it rolled onto its side and went straight to the bottom with most of its crew.
That kind of thing happened to the British several times with experimental ships; was reading this week about “The Captain” , the first British ship with rotating turrets for its guns. Same date befell it, lost on a trial run with all hands.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (/ZNPI)

You can see what they have been able to bring up from the bottom, and various artifacts from it, at the Mary Rose museum in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Also there, among other vessels, is the HMS Victory.

Posted by: Vendette at November 22, 2025 07:07 PM (MR1yy)

126 Do not. Touch. The boats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJhmm3D3OY&t=581s
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Enjoyed the story of our ventures in the Mediterranean so much so that I listened to his history of Gonzales to San Jacinto which contain, until now, unknown history.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 07:07 PM (LEuDt)

127 Our government, if it moves tax it. If it quits moving subsidize it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:08 PM (sDNVV)

128 One of the biggest thrills of my life was going through the Panama Canal on a tugboat. It was a huge favor from a friend with connections and was my farewell to the isthmus.

When we first arrived in country, I spent countless hours at the locks watching big ships transit the canal and enjoyed every minute of it.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 07:10 PM (kB9dk)

129 Have you tried tire slime, Ben Had?

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:11 PM (vFG9F)

130 Hey, check it out. Norm Abram at "This Old House" and the "New Yankee Workshop" built a Clancy boat. Loved the show when it was on. Missed this particular one.

Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:25 PM

But before we check it out, first a few words about shop safety....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 07:12 PM (Wnv9h)

131 fd, yes. I had a tire replaced on the riding mower because of leakage in the sidewall and it got me to thinking.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (sDNVV)

132 >>128 One of the biggest thrills of my life was going through the Panama Canal on a tugboat. It was a huge favor from a friend with connections and was my farewell to the isthmus.

That must have been very cool.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)

133 A boat?! LMFAO

I've got two dependent children with families. And by "dependant" I mean I'm supporting all of them assholes.

I could probably run a modern day Arleigh Burke DDG for less.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (NwnyJ)

134 My ex husband used to race J24s out of Harwichport. He took me out a couple times for a practice.

Holy shit. I was waaaaay outta my league.

Those guys are freaking insane.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 07:14 PM (mT+6a)

135 112 Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (J9q9v)

What years ?
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (KDPiq)

441st BS at Mather AFB. B-52G from 1983 to 1989 then off to FB-111s at Plattsburgh from 1983-89.

Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 07:15 PM (J9q9v)

136 135 112 Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (J9q9v)

What years ?
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (KDPiq)

CORRECTION: 441st BS at Mather AFB. B-52G from 1981 to 1983 then off to FB-111s at Plattsburgh from 1983-89.

Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (xl8DV)

137 fd, I hate tubed tires. The back tires in my gator keep losing air and it has to be from small leaks in the sidewall.

I am going to try the flex seal and report back
Posted by: Ben Had

Fill with Green Slime.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (/lPRQ)

138 I think I told this before, but the funniest thing that ever happened on our boat was the day my father, me, and my brother were out on it. I was probably 15, my brother was probably 12. My father tells me to throw the anchor because we were fishing. I pick the anchor up, the chain/rope was attached, then he tells me to put it down because he wanted to move the boat a little. Then he says ok throw it. I pick it up and toss it, and there is nothing attached to it. I watched it sail into the deep blue by itself. All I heard was *glook*, and it was gone. My father in his infinite wisdom instantly because Jacque frigging Cousteau, stripd down to his underwear and dives over like he's going to find it. He jumps over and leaves us 2 alone. My brother looks at me and says "so what now?" He eventually surfaces and says I can't see anything. No shit, no shit you can't see anything. Were in some frigging bay between staten island and new jersey, a fucking container ship is a few hundred yards off our bow and you think diving over as fruit of the loom man is gonna find an anchor??? We still laugh about that one.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (snZF9)

139 >>128 One of the biggest thrills of my life was going through the Panama Canal on a tugboat. It was a huge favor from a friend with connections and was my farewell to the isthmus.

That must have been very cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)
* * * *
It was indeed! I've always had a soft spot for tugboats, even though I grew up in the desert southwest. Their shape reminds me of a huge shoe in the water! And they have lots of power, thanks to the powerful engines.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 07:17 PM (kB9dk)

140 We have a boat. It has all kinds of things for fishing on it. Being easily amused, I like to watch the graphics of the fish on the sonar monitor - especially when they are all different sizes and the schools get big or little. I am especially amused when it’s just one fake fishy swimming across the screen. I don’t get invited often. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (OoFl2)

141 Does a floating turd count?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (sptJg)

142 Used to be a DJ who had a call in contest for the "Poor Bastard Award".

One guy called in and said he came home to find his wife in bed with his best friend.

He said he was going to miss her but the worst part was his friend had the greatest boat.

Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (sPsWv)

143 >>My ex husband used to race J24s out of Harwichport. He took me out a couple times for a practice.

You should have seen the Wednesday night J24 races around here back in the day. It was just a Wednesday night thing but the race was littered with national and world champion sailors.

JBoats is a local business.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (viF8m)

144 Speaking of anchor chains:

https://tinyurl.com/2p5bcvh5

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 07:21 PM (XQo4F)

145 My ex went through the bass boat stage. Never caught a fish.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:21 PM (sDNVV)

146 My sister's ex father/mother in law have a boat that can do the eastern seaboard... something apparently popular with the 60+ crowd. IIRC it can navigate open ocean for some determinate number of nautical miles.

Looks a bit like a gay tugboat.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:22 PM (NwnyJ)

147 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Thanks for being here and keeping the Hobby Thread afloat. New theme next week.

See y'all later in Club ONT!

Posted by: TRex - water proof dino at November 22, 2025 07:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

148 >>It was indeed! I've always had a soft spot for tugboats, even though I grew up in the desert southwest. Their shape reminds me of a huge shoe in the water! And they have lots of power, thanks to the powerful engines.

We used to dive on them a bunch when I was living in PR. Back then there was lot of tug and barge traffic between the islands. From time to time one of them would wrap one of the tow cables around the prop. We'd get hired to get it off.

Their props are enormous. Some had some pretty cool interiors as well. More spacious than I had thought.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:23 PM (viF8m)

149 Based on the sign, The Sextant looks like it's a place that deserves my money.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 07:23 PM (7xrfc)

150 Were in some frigging bay between staten island and new jersey, a fucking container ship is a few hundred yards off our bow and you think diving over as fruit of the loom man is gonna find an anchor??? We still laugh about that one.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (snZF9)

Fruit of the Loom man? ROFL!!! Maybe he thought he could catch it on the way down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:24 PM (/ZNPI)

151 olddog needs to be here. He has a neat boat that the family enjoys on the lake.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:24 PM (sDNVV)

152 "Never caught a fish."

Wow. It's not that hard to do.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:24 PM (vFG9F)

153 TRex, thank you for the fun topics.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:26 PM (sDNVV)

154 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM

Now that's just freakin' funny!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 07:26 PM (Wnv9h)

155 fd, that's what I thought too.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:27 PM (sDNVV)

156 153 TRex, thank you for the fun topics.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:26 PM
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You're welcome. Glad you're here!

Posted by: TRex - land-based dino at November 22, 2025 07:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

157 145 My ex went through the bass boat stage. Never caught a fish.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025

Ha! Ours is a center console, but apparently we now need something bigger. So we can be more comfortable? Why of course not! So the dog can hang out in the cabin on a couch and / or bed.

Posted by: Piper at November 22, 2025 07:27 PM (OoFl2)

158 I spent a summer as a deckhand on an oyster shell dredge on the Mobile Bay. That was the summer I grew up.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 07:28 PM (XQo4F)

159 I've got two dependent children with families. And by "dependant" I mean I'm supporting all of them assholes.

I know exactly how you feel, Martini Farmer. Many is the time I think of Aouda in Lawrence of Arabia; “I am a River to my People!”
They don’t leave much for me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:29 PM (/ZNPI)

160 Never owned a boat nor been a boater, but I have one fun story. In the summer that Sister Babe and I dated before getting engaged, she was invited by a church friend to join him and some friends for an afternoon of boating. The crew included us, Boater's geeky friend and his hot boss, three women in bikinis and what I remember being two Russian models who took turns photographing each other.
At one point Geeky Friend was at the stern with Hot Boss, who at that time was doing pilates in her bikini while she talked to him. Another boat came the opposite way, and their captain just had his head turned completely fixed on our boat, probably wondering where he went wrong.
Afterwards, I would always encourage Sister Babe to invite Church Friend to any social events we 'd host, and he could bring as many guests as he'd want. For some reason she never found that as funny as I did.

Posted by: Brother Bob at November 22, 2025 07:31 PM (tBfGm)

161 Jackstraw, I visited PR once and loved it, especially Vieques. If I could live anywhere outside the continental US, it would be Vieques. Why? Because that is the laziest place in the entire damned world, and that suited me completely.
Wife and I went down to Half moon bay one morning, beautiful spot, and the only other person there was some guy picking up seashells about 1/4 mile away. All the little tide pools looked like tropical fish aquariums, I loved it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:34 PM (/ZNPI)

162 Speaking of the Mary Rose and ships that sank on their maiden voyages, while in Sweden visiting the bro-in-law, got to see the Vasa. I never saw such a huge human artifact, it blew me away. Until I got to see an entire Saturn V rocket...those sorts of things just leave a person gasping in awe. Possibly because both items were on display inside these hugely cavernous buildings, which might have made them seem even more impressive.

Posted by: tankascribe at November 22, 2025 07:37 PM (NtoJk)

163
Our Cub Pack went out on a day trip today in nearby Maryland. Things were damp from last night's rain. The day was sunny and mostly free of wind. We got a couple of hearty fires going, had everyone contribute to making our meal, and then gladly ate it.

It is so enjoyable to watch youngsters run around in their chaotic play.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 22, 2025 07:38 PM (xG4kz)

164 My only experiences with tropical, Caribbean waters is a family trip in the 80's to St. John USVI, and Virgin Gorda UKVI (or whatever they're called.)

Beautiful water, reefs, etc.

Really poor outside the "complex."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:38 PM (NwnyJ)

165 Some people are not patient enough to fish. It scares the fish off.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:38 PM (vFG9F)

166 Sailing around the the Cape Horn has got to be for the only stoutest of minds.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:39 PM (sDNVV)

167 Sailing around the the Cape Horn has got to be for the only stoutest of minds.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:39 PM (sDNVV)

168 In case you missed it the first time!

Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:40 PM (sDNVV)

169 Fishing is a ruse to hang out and be by yourself and not have to talk to anyone.

And maybe enjoy a beer.

But mostly not have to do anything for anyone. And just. Be.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (hQPf/)

170 I experienced the two greatest days as a boat owner, the day I bought the boat and the day I sold the boat.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (YGRGv)

171 Minx's mysteries. You cannot do an identical post even if you wanted to but every once in a while the blog has a hiccup.

Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

172 Las Vegas Grand Prix is on a 11pm tonight so not staying up too much longer

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:43 PM (+qU29)

173 Fishing is a ruse to hang out and be by yourself and not have to talk to anyone.

And maybe enjoy a beer.

But mostly not have to do anything for anyone. And just. Be.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (hQPf/)

That was always my idea of fishing. On a shoreline somewhere on land, not in a boat.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:43 PM (snZF9)

174
I have hot to call our boat guy to learn what are the damages to the bank from this year's extraction and winterizing. I also need to schedule a pickup date and time for its canvases so as to be able to give them a good cleaning and restoration of their water repellent.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 22, 2025 07:44 PM (xG4kz)

175 I experienced the two greatest days as a boat owner, the day I bought the boat and the day I sold the boat.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (YGRGv)

Thats exactly what my father says.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:44 PM (snZF9)

176 Thete are videos about ships traveling around South America

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)

177 WE HAVE A MOVIE MARQUE

NOOD

Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)

178 141 Does a floating turd count?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

I resent that.

Posted by: Conan O'Brien, sippin' rum punch in Haiti at November 22, 2025 07:46 PM (gKWVE)

179 Ahoy! Movie thread is up!

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 22, 2025 07:46 PM (rbKZ6)

180
Breathing ~~Fishing~~ is a ruse to hang out and be by yourself and not have to talk to anyone.

Let's just saying my decisions of when to be sociable are quite selective.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 22, 2025 07:47 PM (xG4kz)

181 Now we live on the northern plains so opportunities to own another boat seems extremely remote.

Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 07:48 PM (YGRGv)

182 >>Jackstraw, I visited PR once and loved it, especially Vieques. If I could live anywhere outside the continental US, it would be Vieques. Why? Because that is the laziest place in the entire damned world, and that suited me completely.
Wife and I went down to Half moon bay one morning, beautiful spot, and the only other person there was some guy picking up seashells about 1/4 mile away. All the little tide pools looked like tropical fish aquariums, I loved it.

I never made it to Vieques but I visited Culebra a number of times. It would be hard to find a place more laid back. Beautiful too.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:48 PM (viF8m)

183 Once got a chance to troll off the back of an LCU.

Only four of us on board (besides crew) and no cargo.
Was a weird little military recon mission.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 08:04 PM (/lPRQ)

184 I spent a summer as a deckhand on an oyster shell dredge on the Mobile Bay. That was the summer I grew up.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Growing up on the coast of SC, many roads were oyster shell.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2025 08:15 PM (XeU6L)

185 Reading 'Six Frigates', the Navy went to great lengths to obatain White oak for ship construction. A great deal of it obtained from the southern coast,at great cost of manpower.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2025 08:17 PM (XeU6L)

186 But on the new sign, the sextant is no longer extant.

They decided to go in a whole other direction.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:39 PM (HlyYF)

ISWYDT!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 08:24 PM (npFr7)

187 My brother built a canoe, it tipped over on its maiden cruise and I never saw it again.

Dad bought a very used small cabin boat and wanted to head out on the Big Lake to fish. Started the outboard to discover that "reverse" was the only working gear, so backwards was how we pulled out of the slip; then backwards was how we circled inside the bay. Peering out the window, I noticed a crowd gathering at the end of the dock to watch as we continued circling until finally giving up. Backwards into the slip again and quickly abandon ship.

I fondly remember the rowboat my pop untied from an isolated dock on a country lake, picking up a 1" x 8" plank to use as an oar and told us kids to climb in. Fortunately or not, a man appeared and said we must leave, it was his boat and we weren't allowed to use it or he'd call the cops.

And those were the good times...

Posted by: ju at November 22, 2025 08:59 PM (EgpoY)

188 The Sextant? I've got a sextant story.

Years and years ago, I had a 27-foot sloop in the Alamitos Bay marina. Being interested in all things scientific AND practical, I read up on celestial navigation and decided I needed it in my skill set.

So, one summer afternoon, I was working on the flowers in our postage-stamp-sized front yard in our crowded neighborhood and my first wife was nearby in a sun chair reading one of those popular how-to-ignore-and-mistreat-your-man magazines.

Perhaps a bit out of the blue, I mentioned that I was thinking of getting a sextant.

She looked nervously up and down the street and asked, "A sex tent? where would we put it?"

Posted by: Bill Lever at November 23, 2025 02:35 PM (mZSNq)

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