Back in 2008, when John Platou’s granddaughter Emma Grace was 6, together they built – from scratch – an 8′ Minimost Hydro from plans saved from a 1960 Popular Mechanics […]
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Jerry Lindamood’s Catamaran racer. Jerry is building this 16′ catamaran racer from Glen-L Boat Plans and is going to run it with his twin Mark 78’s. First pix are with
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New member Morten Lovstad hailing from The Woodlands joined us at the June Lake Houston meet and sent in some profile photos. Welcome Morten!! Check out the then and now
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You all know of John Platou’s leadership of the Kids Build a Boat events at Keels and Wheels as well as at the Annual Houston Boat Show each January. Well,
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Here are a couple of video links from the recent meet at Lake Catherine in Arkansas that I took using a GoPro on my 10ft Wetback “TopKick” with a 1976 Merc
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Chapter Secretary/Treasurer Chip Rathbun just finished his little 0.5hp Evinrude Mate. Here are some pix of the little motor. What a fine job on the restoration! Way to go, Chip!!
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Hey guys, Does anyone knows what kind of boat this is? I acquired it over the weekend. It’s 8ft long, has OMC Sea King controls with electric start solenoid box.
Feathercraft project by Louis Rothermel and Joe McCauley Louis has had his 13′ Feathercraft runabout for quite a while. He plans to run his Speeditwin on it with rear seat steering,
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