Shifting Gears

While The Fuzz and His Sweetie were camping at the lake the subject of boats naturally came up.  And while it's never been a subject of this blog, The Fuzz has been contemplating trying to put one together.

And while he has never considered his skills anything like expert, he was confident that he could knock together something out of plywood that would float.

So he has been studying various websites, books and plans.

Of course while he had been making various preparations and gathering tools with this in mind, he had never quite gotten to the point of actually cutting a board.

This would certainly end up as a long term project.

And at The Fuzz's age he had to ask the question-

"Is the point the actual building, or getting out on the water?"

And as much as he admires fine craftsmanship in the boatyard, and those wonderful traditional wooden boats; he reluctantly had to admit that at this point, what he really wanted was to be floating again.

"Again..."
The Fuzz actually did grow up on a lake back in the Old Country.  And it seems he has never really gotten that out of his system as it were.
So once they were back home he went on into town to visit the local Marine Dealer/Pawn Shop.
That sounds like quite a combination and of course it is.

But all that aside, they just so happened to have on the lot almost exactly what he had grown up with.
So now he was torn with the decision, to hold out and go with a classic somewhere, or just cave in for this "Grumpier Old Men" style aluminum skiff.

The skiff won.