Christening the boat.

Even before the boat was finished, my daughter Peggy wanted to do an official christening of the boat. We didn't get a chance to have her with the boat until September the 26th. I took the boat to Logan, UT, to Hyrum Lake and there we did the honors.

Montana Boat Show

A few of thw 40 beautiful boats at Lakeside, Flathead Lake, Montana on August 21, 2009.

SANDPOINT, IDAHO

Sorry I am so slow in posting SandPoint, Idaho's boat show. This was held July 10, 11, and 12.

This first one is actually my trophy display on my fireplace mantel.
This is the shirt Ron and Ruby, my brother and sweet sister-in-law gave me.

This is my "Other Woman"

And the rest are several of about 40 boats entered there

I'm going to LakeSide, Montana on August 20th, and then go thru Glacier Nat Park after the show. LakeSide is about 20 miles south of Kalispell.

Awards Banquet, Saturday Evening

It is amazing!!! I won third place among the catagory called, Utility.

More boats.

This boat is the Sunken Treasure. It was sunk for 40 years on the bottom of Lake Tahoe. He brought it up, and restored it, even the engine, It is a small boat, 14 feet, and was swamped by a large wave.

Th boat is owned by the same man, and the engine is a Jaguar V12.

This is a 33' , 1936 Gar Wood, worth about $250,000. The dash picture, shows an instrument cluster that would cost $10,000 alone.

This is the engine in that WW ONE baot, a Liberty out of an air plane. Garfield Wood bought a thousand of them and made them into marine engines for racing and for sale.

This is the youth project. This 9 year old boy, with the help of his father, built this boat.

This the official DAY 1.

This is Friday, 19th, VIP day. My boat was judged at about 12:30 PM I stayed with the boat most of the day and talked to many people. It was so fun to watch them when they read the name, and then talk to them.

This is a special person to me.



This boat is one of the one of the most rear and unique boats. It is a Graveete. Worth about $200,000.

Custom made for an airline owner in the '40's, probably worth 1/4 million.




This is a Riva, rear and expensive.




A '30's boat with a rare Kermoth engine.

Thursday, launch day.

Launched the boat about 11 am Thursday. and took it to the Marina.

There it is nestled between two 24 foot beauties.

Alongside another Gar Wood.

That's me.

Going like mad.


This boat is a 1919, with a WW ONE Liberty Engine, out of an airplane.