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Wooden Boat Show 2012 edition

tripledigitken - 6-18-2012 at 09:43 AM

Every Father's Day Koehler Kraft marine on Shelter Island puts on a show. Here are a few of my favorites...........

the teak decks!






This beauty built in Turkey is a 30' runabout with 2 very large V8 engines




stern view same beauty




One of Koehler's creations, almost a piano finish!




some working boats too, the door caught my eye






something for everybody.....


woody with a view - 6-18-2012 at 09:45 AM

i went to school with John Koehler, not that it matters.... cool stuff!

J.P. - 6-18-2012 at 09:51 AM

Works of art. A friend has a collection of old runabouts.

bajajudy - 6-18-2012 at 09:56 AM

Sweet
I love wooden boats:bounce:

Hook - 6-18-2012 at 09:57 AM

I'm sportin' wood.

Thanks for the pics. Better to view pics than to actually own one and have to maintain it. :lol:

tripledigitken - 6-18-2012 at 10:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hook
I'm sportin' wood.

....... Better to view pics than to actually own one and have to maintain it. :lol:


Have to agree with that one!

woody with a view - 6-18-2012 at 10:50 AM

these are more my style. just as soon as the prices come down a couple more decimal points!:lol:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47828632

Udo - 6-18-2012 at 10:50 AM

The two happiest days in a man's life...

When he buys his dream wooden boat, and the other, when he sells it.

Phil S - 6-18-2012 at 10:54 AM

My father in law has a wooden boat. Sticker says made by Hughes Tool. Probably made about the same time as the Spruce Goose was made. It's a gorgeous thing. About 8' in length. Includes an old gas engine type outboard that you wrap the rope around the "flywheel" to start it. It's either a Johnson or Evinrude. Old as dirt I think.

DavidT - 6-18-2012 at 05:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
i went to school with John Koehler, not that it matters.... cool stuff!


Woody,
Here is what he's been up to lately.

http://www.jonkoehler.com/

He also designed and made the lighthouse on the new Point Loma Seafoods building.

woody with a view - 6-18-2012 at 07:04 PM

WOW! good for him. last time i saw him, well, he done good!

capt. mike - 6-19-2012 at 10:21 AM

Ken - did you ever get on The Pointe's boat at shelter or harbor island? i forgot which but we had huge parties on it back when the resort was trying to get built. A 50' + wooden trawler classic beautifully maintained. I believe BG still has it there. Wish i had a picture. Am pretty sure Ty and Mike B were on it before, maybe Charlie too. It was all for biz entertainment.
12 kts at full power and 8-12 hrs to catalina overnight.

Phil S - 6-19-2012 at 01:38 PM

Hey Mike. You gotten to fly much? Hope the economy has improved for you.

Pompano - 6-19-2012 at 02:22 PM

Ken, I have been to those classic wood boat shows, too...always loved the time spent there. Thanks for some beautiful photos.


"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
Keates

"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place. "

Arthur Ransome



I suspect the Souix craftsman who fashioned this canoe felt much the same as those poets above.




Gotta love wooden boats!...until the repair bills dull the luster. :rolleyes:




WOODEN BOAT CLASSIC:

How you you make a small fortune in wooden boats?

Start with a large one...


..and in the end..attention to your priorities.







[Edited on 6-19-2012 by Pompano]

bill erhardt - 6-19-2012 at 02:34 PM

Ken.....Nice boats. Nice pics.

hell no....

capt. mike - 6-19-2012 at 03:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Phil S
Hey Mike. You gotten to fly much? Hope the economy has improved for you.


Damn bird just sits presently. I'd sell it if the market wasn't so soft. Next opportunity for biz use is a year away if not 6 mos. Getting 2 hours a week in it for a year pd for by last client sure was nice tho....while it lasted till oct, but all projects have to end sometime.

Looking for deals but they are scarce in this economy and likely to get lousy still.

If i had more on my plate i'd fly the Sams clinic trips but even those as a volunteer costs a lot.

CortezBlue - 6-19-2012 at 05:18 PM

Love the CC

tripledigitken - 6-21-2012 at 12:03 PM

Missed that one Mike.
Quote:
Originally posted by capt. mike

Ken - did you ever get on The Pointe's boat at shelter or harbor island? i forgot which but we had huge parties on it back when the resort was trying to get built. A 50' + wooden trawler classic beautifully maintained. I believe BG still has it there. Wish i had a picture. Am pretty sure Ty and Mike B were on it before, maybe Charlie too. It was all for biz entertainment.
12 kts at full power and 8-12 hrs to catalina overnight.

capt. mike - 6-21-2012 at 04:16 PM

well they were good parties, fully catered and all the booze as you know their styles.... but at the end most of the guests were the lawyers as you're aware of things when they were going south....