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Kennneee

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I came across an old album of the “kid” I once was that had more energy than money and common sense.  Built a steel sailboat in a pasture with 2 refrigerators for the tools I borrowed to start the build, an electric fence to keep the horses out and a $250 welder from Montgomery Wards.  A different wife and a different life.   Didn’t know what I didn’t know!

Some kids never grow up!

Ken

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Jay- We lived aboard for 7 years and cruised for 3.  Spent  a lot of time between Northern California and Panama and the Caribbean to Florida.  Wonderful time in my life! I think you built the right boat.  That said, steel saved our skin but that is another story, arhhh!

Ted- Being young and full of dreams gets you through a lot of obstacles.  Still a dreamer but a bit less ambitious.

Ken 

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Kennneee,

This was my 11 foot high school build. My son renovated it recently, painting over the original red/white paint and replacing my plywood deck.  (I had found an old-time marine guy who repaired my broken 1956 30 hp Johnson.)
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In high school, I meant it to be a precursor to a 16’ version  with a 100hp motor when I became an adult… with lots of money. Married at 20 and having four kids by 30 kept me from justifying that hoped-for dream-build.
 

With retirement, a couple months following my Core Sound 15 kit-build, I pulled the trigger on buying a new 60hp Honda for my next build (the horsepower reduction is part of being older 😁.)  I then built the boat below (the subject of many years of daydreaming 😂) from the plans I had bought in the early 1980’s.  I shortened the build to 15 feet, letting me use the 8 foot plywood and 16 foot planks that I bought from B&B, matching the color scheme of the sailboat and naming them for my parents (Norma T and Joe.)  I could start using Joe this summer.  The grandkids can’t get enough of the tube riding. Wait till they learn to knee board and waterski behind it. 😁
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I’m not sure if another build is in me… although I’m really taken by B&B’s emerging SR20. 

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