April 22, 2010

WALATKA

Stopped at the FREE city dock in Watakla.

Walked into town and found the Maritime Museum. It's a building full of wooden boats. It's not a great idea for me to go in places like that. Gives me ideas. I've owned several wooden boats. A sailboat from the 1930's. A 59 Century Coronado, and a 1938 Chris Craft barrel back triple cockpit that I owned twice.

Most of the boats in the museum were built by a man named Speas. He took blocks of wood and then glued them together. Then he sanded them smooth. He would find old motors and then build a boat around the motor. All of the boats were built since 1992. His son restores old wood boats so there were also some classic runabouts.

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