Comments on: Hand-Me-Down https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/hand-me-down/ Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Christopher Cunningham https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/hand-me-down/#comment-134196 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:46:47 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=186931#comment-134196 In reply to kent lewis.

No name came with the boat and I haven’t come up with one yet.
Since your review, I’ve seen four or five of the Tilley Airflows.

]]> By: kent lewis https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/hand-me-down/#comment-134185 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:48:59 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=186931#comment-134185 That looks like a fun boat, roomy, and simple to maintain and repair. We are glad you had room for it.

And somehow another Tilley appeared. Maybe we need folks to send in pictures of their Tilley for a special issue.

Does the boat have a name?

]]> By: Arthur J Haberland https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/hand-me-down/#comment-132882 Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:16:47 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=186931#comment-132882 Lovely Boat, I understand the feeling. I have never been able to “leave well enough alone” when it comes to boats, new or old. Something like the Pirogue, in my hands, would be going through the same treatment as yours.

As I have not yet come close to mastering my duckpunt, even after two years of trying, I may look to the pirogue for inspiration for a rudder and off-set dagger board.

]]> By: Jeff Patrick https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/hand-me-down/#comment-130775 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 14:16:40 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=186931#comment-130775 There is a particularly nice feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment in bringing a boat, or any other object, back to usable life. This is a different sort of warmth that is similar to, but uniquely its own, the creation of an entirely new object. Perhaps it’s the knowledge that one is resurrecting the original builder’s dream/accomplishment. The restoration acting as the means for helping another person live just a bit longer.

]]> By: John Leyde https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/hand-me-down/#comment-130728 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 03:36:49 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=186931#comment-130728 The paddle board I built in 2020 got water in it due to a worn spot at the stem and sitting out in the rain for three years, which made the plywood punky in a small area. As I was cutting out the damaged ply, replacing it and sealing it up again with fiberglass and epoxy, I thought, “wow, I really miss doing this stuff!”
A few days later, my wife asked me what I was going to do that day and I said, I didn’t have anything to do. She asked what did I want to do and I said, “build a boat.” She gave me a sideways glance and a smirk. Hmmmm, maybe this fall…..

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