The continuing reconstruction of this boat can be found on Youtube. This city on our peninsula is the center for wooden boats. I have a double, wooded kayak I build from a kit produced by a company in Pt. Townsend (Pygmy Kayak).

I have a brother that owned a 36' power boat. He spent a lot of time on that boat but discovered it was cheaper and easier to rent a boat than to keep one and pay all the fees/licensing and so on.

Holy crap! I had just gotten into a conversation from a person who lives in Port Townsend. I wanted to mention this boat and the reconstruction but forgot the name. Thanks for the timely comment.

I sent a lot but really enjoyed all the links. It's a good distraction from the usual posts. Pt. Townsend is a special place. There is an old military base there (now an event center). It is Ft. Worden where the film "Officer and a Gentleman" was filmed. [fortworden.org]

I thought more would be interested in this boat and the history. Only yourself and one other. Too much stuff about politics and the virus. Frustrating.

@JackPedigo I think everyone is just hyper focused on the virus and trump right now. It has everyone upset and scared so that’s all they really want to talk about.

@JackPedigo How interesting that the movie officer and a gentleman were filmed at that base. I absolutely love boats and ships. My oldest son was in the Navy and was on a destroyer while he was serving. I took a trip out to San Diego when he was in the Navy and he gave me a tour of his ship. It was very fascinating. I also dated a man that had a 50 foot fishing boat that we used to take people out on charters to go fishing. I enjoy being on the water and boats in general. your post was interesting to me.

@Redheadedgammy Thank you. There used to be a tradition in Seattle during it's Seafair festival that the navy would come with some ships (once a sub) and people could go aboard. The USS Missouri was mothballed across the sound in Bremerton and before it went back to Hawaii it came for tours during the festival and I got to go on board. Is there much change to get on the water where you live? Here, it;s easy because we're surrounded by it lol

@JackPedigo I could get to the water here, but the Gulf is so dirty with oil and other who knows what in it that I don’t go to the beach anymore here in Texas. I lived for a couple of years in Palacios Texas, which is where all the shrimpers work with their shrimp boats. It’s a little better there, but then who knows. I haven’t been there since I left in 2004, so it could be as bad as the Gulf by now. I would love to live closer to the water as I grew up in Northern California, and was at the beach just about every weekend.

@Redheadedgammy Did you see my uncommon word? It's a little remedy for all the tension these days.

@JackPedigo Is it in another post?

@Redheadedgammy Yes, it's under uncommon words. This one was a mystery to me but then I found a connection I thought funny.

@Redheadedgammy Sorry, sometimes I'm a little slow but you comment on dirty water reminded me of growing up in Dallass. My mother was a good swimmer and during the summer we often went to one of several lakes to picnic and swim. The water was always muddy and cloudy. Much later I had a partner whose family had a vacation house on a lake in northern Michigan near Traverse City. That water was so clear one could go out a long way as still see little fishes nibbling at one's toes. I remarked on this and she said it's because it's a natural lake. I later discovered all the lakes in Texass are human made (except Texoma).