Recent content by Filkee

And do embrace and enjoy the excitement. It comes back in fits and starts over the years but there’s nothing like stalking your first boat. I remember shutting down my phone so the family wouldn’t know that I was lurking near that plastic-wrapped hull at the Champlain Marina.

I considered boats further afield but as a newbie myself, getting acquainted with a local boat was the right move. I considered boats in CT and NJ but the prospect of navigating out of the Sound and up the Hudson absolutely terrified me. I think I could do it now with a friend but being able to...

The price of the boat is just the initiation fee.

Country living in a mooring field never looked so good.

I would have paid more. Well, my wife would have. A fine Christmas gift

EYO is really my favorite boat magazine.

1987, you’re a youngster. Reminds me of a Winona Ryder line from Heathers but I couldn’t possibly repeat it. Mine had been wrapped in plastic for five years and there were many colors of flora growing inside and out.

For current subscribers, they are going to make the archive available as pdf’s. So there’s that.

The 1985 32-3 that I bought started at an asking price of close to $30k. I think I wound up paying around $12,500. Crazed hatches, delaminated cabin sole, water damage to the interior wood, blisters, exhaust riser disintegrating, old radio and lousy speakers, hot water is brown and smells. All...

Looking for fellow fans and friends to mourn with. As much as this community is my true center, there was something about getting something on paper every few months that contained a good idea or some affection for an old piece of plastic that didn’t look like a Tylenol that offered me some...

Done and thank you.

I think the Lake Champlain Yacht club has only burned twice. We have a melted trophy in the case to commemorate. But of course that’s horrible news. History destroyed and probably a bit of a scramble to figure out what to do with the staff and just how to keep the organization running. Glad I...

Our town highway department swears by it. You can learn a lot about the general health of an excavator by what winds up in the soup. But that’s when purchasing. I don’t know about the value as an annual activity.

I just used pretty screws.

This could be a game-changer. Can someone confirm he’s not nuts? Or snap-ringed?