Walter
Welcome back. Will this build be after the House Boat or before?? lol
Ron
Hey Ron,
Your pontoon boat made into a house boat looks super. Bet you can hardly wait to head north with your "home for battered fish".
Yes, it is so good to be home at Eaglesnest riding the Panther down Bear Head Road with virtually no traffic at all. Moosh and I had to stop the other day to give a black bear the right of way. Moose, timber wolves and bears always get the right of way. Ha!
I have three bike projects this summer... a makeover of the Panther and giving it the sidecar, work on the Indian Hiawatha to get it roadworthy and ready for Fasteddy's tri car front end and to finish up the shift kit stuff on a 1934 Elgin I was working on last summer. Plenty to keep me busy and broke. Oh and also finish up the Orphan moped so I can sell it and pay for bot stuff.
My pontoon boat project is next in line with hopes of replacing the rotting deck and framing in the cabin, making the aluminum extension for the front end where the Grumman canoe sail rig will get mounted and that's about it if I even get that far. Your house boat "Home For Battered Fish" is A1 top of the line. Mine will be the Huck Finn version, just a small rustic cabin, an anemic motor to push it along when there's no wind for the sail and all on a bare bones budget, as usual. Tinsmith gave me a great little wood stove for heating and cooking that had been his grandmother's. That will be the best part of the little cabin.
The fishing opener is this Saturday. I'll go through the ritual with my neighbor down the lake and yesterday set the minnow trap for Rainbow chubs as bait... "here walleyes, come pike, all pan fish are welcome at my table".
Hope to see you up this way at motorbicycle camp this summer.
SB