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I guess I haven't looked in on that thread in a while. I haven't seen the point of it since Charlie told us what we were getting.
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"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")
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And that was post #1!
Those threads really can go off the rails in more ways than one, but the only thing I’m going to say about the whole thing is that I didn’t expect there to be so much Steve Buscemi…
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It sure takes the cool factor down a notch after reading the vitriol from yesterday.
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Seems like it's not really a done deal anyway based on Frank's post in that thread. Just some discussions between Waynorth and Bill Howard that Charlie decided to share with us. The thread title does start with "Proposed" after all. Maybe they'll make that Bunny Knife as a generally available knife run with no particular BF association.
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Here are some photos of the fascinating vintage wooden boats, mostly made by ChrisCraft, we often see on Lake Huron during our vacations.
Tom's Legacy at the dock, and then out in the channel between the mainland and LaSalle Island:
Lucille seen broadside and astern:
A boat whose name I didn't catch with its top up:
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Tom's Legacy at the dock, and then out in the channel between the mainland and LaSalle Island:
Lucille seen broadside and astern:
A boat whose name I didn't catch with its top up:
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The forum knife is awesome. I enjoy using mine a lot and always being reminded of this community that keeps this peaceful hobby for me so fun. I take my forum knife to knife shows and I show it to a lot of folks in the hobby and I talk to them about what a great community we have here on Bladeforums and I encourage folks to join. I agree with
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, the last 10 pages of that thread sucked the fun and enthusiasm out of what was otherwise a fun conversation. I most definitely understand the defensiveness of our fellow members but I think the gate keeping should be toned down a lot and we should leave it up to our awesome moderators to intervene when needed. There’s a lot to be gained from ignoring folks who we think don’t have adequate “engagement” on The Porch and keeping the conversation fun and letting the organizers and mods determine eligibility. I just hate seeing things get so tense when it could be avoided. 
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those wooden boats sure are awesome
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, the last 10 pages of that thread sucked the fun and enthusiasm out of what was otherwise a fun conversation. I most definitely understand the defensiveness of our fellow members but I think the gate keeping should be toned down a lot and we should leave it up to our awesome moderators to intervene when needed. There’s a lot to be gained from ignoring folks who we think don’t have adequate “engagement” on The Porch and keeping the conversation fun and letting the organizers and mods determine eligibility. I just hate seeing things get so tense when it could be avoided.
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those wooden boats sure are awesome 
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Great photos Gary, thanks for sharing them. Those boats bring back another time. That must have been something seeing them rumble past.
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Beautiful boat!
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I don’t frequent this thread but had to come check out the wooden boat pictures you alluded to, Gary. They are such cool boats. Great shots! When I was a kid some friends of ours had a Chris Craft and we used to go to Lake Tahoe with them every summer. I used to tube behind it. Theirs was called Mai Tai.
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My first wife's mother had a place at Sunapee Lake in NH, and under the house was a dock with hoists to lift their Chris Craft up from the water. What a beautiful boat, big inboard engine, rode so nice. Seeing those wooden boats on Lake Huron reminded me of the couple of times I got to see parades of them on Lake Sunapee on the 4th of July. This was Back in the 80's but even then, the sight of those beautifully built craft was something to see.
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Great photos Gary, thanks for sharing them. Those boats bring back another time. That must have been something seeing them rumble past.
Thanks for the positive reactions to boats I really have no connection to other than really enjoying the opportunity to watch them.
Tubing behind one of those vintage Chris Crafts must have been a blast, Bart!
Duane, they have an annual Antique Wooden Boat Show up here the second Saturday of every August, and we happen to rent a cottage on the lake that usually includes that date. I used to enjoy sitting outside the week leading up to the boat show watching boats cruising up and down the channel between the cottage we rented and the island across from it. A day or two before the show they had some kind of "poker run" for boat show participants, and one of the checkpoints was on a little strip of land about 100 feet across a lagoon from the place we rent (that's where the docks in my pics are). But there seem to be substantially fewer boats to watch preceding the boat show the past several years. Maybe a lot of the boat owners are getting old enough that it's more of a challenge to get their boats out and about.
There are some very lovely natural craft cruising these waters as well:
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, sounds like a great time to vacation there. My ex MIL sold off her boat because it was in need of TLC and even back then it was costly to do so. I only had a couple goodbye rides in it.Afteer the old lady died, the kids had the big house torn down and subdivided the property for summer cottages.
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Though it's a rare bunch of kids that can inherit a property together and share it amicably.
My cousin restores and repairs classic wooden boats, and he has plenty of business.
My cousin restores and repairs classic wooden boats, and he has plenty of business.
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Theres a boat in Narooma...The Wagonga Princess...117 years old...it does scenic cruises up the inlet most days...used to be steam powered then diesel...the new owner has put an electric dc motor in it...she glides silently through the water.
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Sounds beautiful, any pictures?
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Even as a little kid I knew it was special.
One of the coolest ones on Lake Tahoe is this cruiser called Thunderbird. (Not my picture)
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Lake Tahoe is such a magical place. I was there two summers ago during wild fires and still had a great time and caught some yummy trout. That is such an epic cruiser. We went kayaking and apparently one of the properties we were paddling by was owned by non other than Zuckerberg, and he apparently doesn’t like it when kayakers and such get too close to his end, so we of course got closeEven as a little kid I knew it was special.
One of the coolest ones on Lake Tahoe is this cruiser called Thunderbird. (Not my picture)
