Also try Cedar Tree Restoration in Des Moines, especially for marine plywood. Marge and Paul Morris.

Andreas

I am pretty sure that the Jerry-Lo was repowered with a vintage Rolls Royce engine about 20 years ago.

This is the Dingle Boat Works triple cockpit runabout that allegedly sold at the Mecum Collection Auction, er, I mean the Warner Collection Auction.

Andreas

I bought and used it once. It was expensive and didn't work on my painted bilge. And yes, I read and followed the instructions.

Andreas

Rec'd my copies 18 Jan west of Minneapolis. Plastic sleeve completely open at the end but both copies were in there.

Minneapolis Boat Show starts today!

Andreas

Winter boat show time is here! The Minneapolis Boat show is 19-22 Jan. 2012 in downtown. The Bob Speltz Land-O-Lakes chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Society is back after a three year absence with a display of vintage watercraft. Two wooden sail boats will be shown along with a 26 ft. Hackercr...

Final inspection by the building official today and it passed! Woot woot!

Andreas

I keep a database of all known Thompson boats. This includes individual databases for: Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co. of Peshtigo, WI Thompson Bros. boat Mfg. Co. of Cortland, NY Thompson Boat Co of New York, Inc. of Cortland, NY Thompson subsidiary of Chris-Craft Thompson Royal-Craft, Inc. Cruisers, ...

I was contacted by the creator/producer of "This Old Boat" when it was being considered. Probably 5 years ago. He picked my brain quite a bit. Sounded like a great concept but I wondered if it would ever make it to the air. Apparently one episode did. I never saw it.

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Little bit of snow here. Last year at this time we were burried. A portion of the length will eventually be partitioned off, wired, insulated, sheathed and heated. Not sure yet of the heat source. A wood stove for certain but I must have supplemental heat. The "finishing" is a long way off. I am bro...

Got bottom buttoned up on three sides on Saturday. Will wait till frost is out of the ground to do the north side.
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The Cortland, NY plant closed in 1974, so this boat was not built there.

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Done on 27 Dec 2011. At least all the contractor's stuff is completed. I have TONS of things to do over the next many months. And it is already to small. I knew that going in. It is the biggest footprint I can build per local zoning regulations. I will not be able to fit all my boats into it. Everyo...

Here is the future home of Thompson Boat Restorations, i.e. my shop and storage shed.

Andreas

As of noon 22 December 2011:

No, you cannot start a water cooled engine without it being in the water. You get the boat in the water, get all ready for departure, point in the direction you want to go, start her up, and hopefully she starts and continues to run. You are off and running!

Andreas

www.aomci.org is a good place to learn about vintage outboard motors. The "DR" is nicknamed the "dockbuster." There is NO neutral. You start her in gear - so you better be pointed in the right direction. To go from forward to reverse you shut the motor off, flip a switch, throw her into reverse and ...

Neato picture of two 1956 Thompson 18 ft. Off-Shore plywood lapstrake boats each with twin Mercs!

Andreas

Toss a cheap blue tarp on top of the cover. My shelter Logic thing is JUNK. Falls down in windy conditions all the time. Had a similar one last winter that collapsed and bent the tubing to pretzel shapes in a light snow. Be warned, keep any accumulated snow off the roof and keep a very close eye on ...

Dale Kocian in DePere, WI - a Green Bay suburb!

Andreas

A plywood lapstrake Cruisers, Inc. boat should not leak or need swelling. If it leaks, there is a problem. Find the source of the leaks and get 'em fixed.

www.thompsondockside.com

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By the way, there is a website devoted to Lake-N-Sea boats, www.lakensea.com

Andreas

Lugar Industries made kits boats in Minneapolis. In July 1955 their address was 4452 Nicollet Avenue South, 5 blocks from where I lived for the past twenty years. In Feb. 1958 their address was 3404 Lyndale Ave. South, about a mile from my former home. Both addresses are very small, store-front type...

Difficult to tell, but it looks like a cedar strip hull. These were made by the tens of thousands by hundreds of boat builders. It has the lines and appearance of a cedar strip boat by Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co. One of their TVT hulls. They made 5,000 to 8,000 of these annually for many decades at...

YUCK

I have a brochure for the Land Cruiser. I assume it's from 1954 - the code on the back is "11354M50M". I can see baby moon hubcaps in the pictures. I do not think there is a logo on them. But it's difficult to tell fer sure. The photo of the loose compnents shows axel, wheels, and hubcaps, but no ti...

Found this last nite and thought I'd share.

Andreas

Tons of information about small classic aluminum and fiberglass express and pocket cruisers can be found at www.bigfinboats.com, www.fiberglassics.com, www.theclassicboathouse.com The Pacific Northwest group (formerly part of fiberglassics.com have many such boats in their ranks. There may even be a...

It comes off the boat in big sheets. Dings and scratches are next to impossible to repair.

Stick with marine spar varnish. Leave the auto finish on the car.

Andreas

When I was there several years ago creating the database, I asked if I could take the ledger book to my hotel over night and work on it. I realized there was slight chance of this. And it was no surprise when the reply was no way would they ever let anything from the archive outside of the building....

Good to know they are still in business. Several years ao I started entering shipping records from the Cortland plant into a database. This is the only record of hull ID's of the wooden boats for the Cortland plant. After two full days I got thru six (6) months only. I don't know nothin' 'bout birth...