My photos from the Ponchatoula Rendezvous
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Here's a pic of Pipersan's awesome smoked ribs and a few more goodies. The fryer and the grill in the background were responsible for some tasty morsels too.
Piper's daughter also made her rounds with the camera.
Piper's daughter also made her rounds with the camera.
Wannabe asked about the blue boat and I am still wondering about it myself. Inquiring minds want to know.
Jimmy
Jimmy
OK, the blue boat.....
The Forum has a member from Great Briton, a Mr. Dennis Davis, high school manual arts instructor turned boat designer. Came up with a series of really good yak designs about 15 or so years ago, that his boys could make at school in shop classes. All were "tortured plywood" designs, affordable, could be build in increments so they could be assembled in class-time........pretty neat stuff.
Well, the blue boat is a DK-17.......light, fast, affordable, roomy and pretty stable. I build her back in about 1993-1994 in my violin shop while still carrying on with the regular work. She is 5mm luan and glass tape only on the seams with polyester. Back when I was younger this boat would go so fast there was a rooster tail squirting up out of the water at the stern.
My goal is to scrape/sand and epoxy the whole exterior and layer it with lightweight glass.
thanks for asking!! Piper
The Forum has a member from Great Briton, a Mr. Dennis Davis, high school manual arts instructor turned boat designer. Came up with a series of really good yak designs about 15 or so years ago, that his boys could make at school in shop classes. All were "tortured plywood" designs, affordable, could be build in increments so they could be assembled in class-time........pretty neat stuff.
Well, the blue boat is a DK-17.......light, fast, affordable, roomy and pretty stable. I build her back in about 1993-1994 in my violin shop while still carrying on with the regular work. She is 5mm luan and glass tape only on the seams with polyester. Back when I was younger this boat would go so fast there was a rooster tail squirting up out of the water at the stern.
My goal is to scrape/sand and epoxy the whole exterior and layer it with lightweight glass.
thanks for asking!! Piper
Piper San's "Blue Bomb". Sorta like the one Slim Pickens rode out of the bomb bay. (Only slim was better lookin' than Piper San.) (So was the bomb, come to think of it.)
Oz, that was the DK-15.......round bottom, very light weight and very 'tender" in the water.........the 17 is way more stable.
piper
piper