Thanks for posting this, Paul. I can remember boatyards like this (no hardhats!!!) in the 1950s but most of them are long gone now. Boatyards in many city waterfront areas have been replaced by trendy restaurants, upscale boutiques and pricey condominiums. In fact, Sue and I drove around the marina at Dana Point trying to find a shop that carried marine fasteners and couldn't find one!!! We could find lots of pay-parking and numerous restaurants with salty names but nothing that a person who was working on a boat would find useful. Even that mainstay of marine stores, West Marine (we remember their first store) has moved out of the port area up into town for everything but deck shoes and pricey clothing. Finally we asked a couple our age who looked like they knew their way around and they told us how to get to the local hardware store on 101. And the owner of that store wasn't sure how long stores like his would be able to stay in business. But we got our fasteners. Who could have imagined, even 20 years ago, a marina area with no chandleries? Or, in fact, no working boats at all but only yachts. I could go on about my old port district in Everett, WA (just north of Seattle) which razed all the old shipworks and signed a contract for yupified condos only to have the entire deal collapse with the bankruptcy of the condo outfit in the recession. Now all they have are empty spaces. Excellent video of how it was done in the 1950s and, in some places, how it's still done today. But you must search them out. In Puget Sound only Port Townsend has a "Port District" worthy of its name. That video is a keeper. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Paul Montgomery <paul_at_paddleandoar.com>wrote: > I just posted a video of a start-to-finish building of a REAL stripper. > > http://paddleandoar.com > > Paul Montgomery > paul_at_paddleandoar.com > http://paddleandoar.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jan 02 2010 - 08:00:44 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:39 PDT