Further New Hampshire updates.
"PUTT" (the top photo)
BOAT; $700 originally
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE; $15,000 PLUS PER YEAR
MOTOR; $3,000
BEER; $20
FISHING EQUIPMENT; $1,500
NEW FISHING HAT; Priceless!
The difference amongst fishing boats!
For the uninitiated (that's the great unwashed or those of you living in Yoba Linda) there is a difference in fishing boats.
The original New Hampshire boat of choice for us has always been "Putt". The top picture. We have used this boat since the first year in 1969. A tin boat of about 14 feet without luxuries of any kind. Its kept on the beach all winter upside down and presumably covered with snow.
Various outboard motors have been attached and most years all has gone well. One year, the motor didn't work and I ended up buying a canoe in Maine to help with the fishing transport. That boat can be found on my website titled "Elizabeth's Canoe", named after one neat granddaughter.
More fish have been brought over the side of "Putt" than any other boat combined, in my opinion, but that's because I always fish from it. No ego here when you tell the truth! Course I will get an argument from the others about this. I do feel the boat can go slower (a good thing when fishing) and one has more control over the fishing tools employed to catch the hapless critters we seek.
This year after a winter's storage, the motor started after the second pull. For you with chain saws, you will appreciate this feat. I for one was eternally thankful to the second pull gods for such grace. We ran the boat on about seven gallons of gas for the week...almost all day every day....take that you gas ripper offers! By the way we are here in SC over $2.10 per gallon again for regular and I guess that means that summer is coming and Exon earnings are slipping.
Jeeeeeeeez!
After the first year fishing in "Putt" at the end of April in 1967, the Bells acquired a new, larger, and more comfortable boat. The "Blue Veiner"! Don't ask! But of course kept "Putt". This boat caught allot of fish too and entertained a growing family for some 32 years. It could be covered in foul weather and of course that was important to we lunatics who went out on the water in spring rains, snow, and foul freezing weather seeking the worldly salmon. This boat is the next to bottom photo.
The second and current "Big" boat is the "Cobia" pictured at the bottom. Bought in 1999 this boat serves not only as our fishing boat (about 1% of it's use) but as a family party boat for kids and grand kids. It can be covered to keep out the bad weather in the spring but is more suited to a party than dirty old men, wearing stinky old clothes and boots, fishing for dirty smelly old fish that bleed all over the place when caught.
"PUTT" (the top photo)
BOAT; $700 originally
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE; $15,000 PLUS PER YEAR
MOTOR; $3,000
BEER; $20
FISHING EQUIPMENT; $1,500
NEW FISHING HAT; Priceless!
The difference amongst fishing boats!
For the uninitiated (that's the great unwashed or those of you living in Yoba Linda) there is a difference in fishing boats.
The original New Hampshire boat of choice for us has always been "Putt". The top picture. We have used this boat since the first year in 1969. A tin boat of about 14 feet without luxuries of any kind. Its kept on the beach all winter upside down and presumably covered with snow.
Various outboard motors have been attached and most years all has gone well. One year, the motor didn't work and I ended up buying a canoe in Maine to help with the fishing transport. That boat can be found on my website titled "Elizabeth's Canoe", named after one neat granddaughter.
More fish have been brought over the side of "Putt" than any other boat combined, in my opinion, but that's because I always fish from it. No ego here when you tell the truth! Course I will get an argument from the others about this. I do feel the boat can go slower (a good thing when fishing) and one has more control over the fishing tools employed to catch the hapless critters we seek.
This year after a winter's storage, the motor started after the second pull. For you with chain saws, you will appreciate this feat. I for one was eternally thankful to the second pull gods for such grace. We ran the boat on about seven gallons of gas for the week...almost all day every day....take that you gas ripper offers! By the way we are here in SC over $2.10 per gallon again for regular and I guess that means that summer is coming and Exon earnings are slipping.
Jeeeeeeeez!
After the first year fishing in "Putt" at the end of April in 1967, the Bells acquired a new, larger, and more comfortable boat. The "Blue Veiner"! Don't ask! But of course kept "Putt". This boat caught allot of fish too and entertained a growing family for some 32 years. It could be covered in foul weather and of course that was important to we lunatics who went out on the water in spring rains, snow, and foul freezing weather seeking the worldly salmon. This boat is the next to bottom photo.
The second and current "Big" boat is the "Cobia" pictured at the bottom. Bought in 1999 this boat serves not only as our fishing boat (about 1% of it's use) but as a family party boat for kids and grand kids. It can be covered to keep out the bad weather in the spring but is more suited to a party than dirty old men, wearing stinky old clothes and boots, fishing for dirty smelly old fish that bleed all over the place when caught.
The second from the top boat pictured here is "Miss Saigon". Owned by Dave Clark and transported from Hilton Head each year on the top of his car. "Miss Saigon" is about 11 feet long and is a metal sneak boat with a little 2 horse outboard. A one man affair. Dave has almost outfished "Putt" from this boat, but not quite.
FICTION AND FACT FROM SKIP'S ALMANAC OF GARBAGE KNOWLEDGE
Vein in Websters
A distinctive mode of expression : styleb: a distinctive element or quality : strain <introduced a welcome vein of humor> c: a line of thought or action
FICTION AND FACT FROM SKIP'S ALMANAC OF GARBAGE KNOWLEDGE
Vein in Websters
A distinctive mode of expression : style
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