WOW - that's us in WoodenBoat Magazine!

we are so delighted to be mentioned in WoodenBoat Magazine, the bible of the Wooden Boat Religion! After all, what else wold you call a volunteer boat shop? We (used to) gather once a week, work together to create new community solutions, particularly for youth...that's my idea of church anyway.

if you missed it search woodenboat.com and click on the free read of the April May issue, page 32

Meanwhile the boatshop is necessarily quite except for me! doesn't mean nothing is happening however. First a quick recap of how our World Championship Indoor SeaFlea Races went in January at the Toronto Boat Show.

Adding the 9.8 HP Tohatsu engines turned into a major project. Tohatsu had donated two 9.8's for our summer boatshow programmes and they turned out to make such a difference in performance that we decided to do propane conversions so we could use them at TIBS. Tohatsu sent one off to a company in MN that specializes in conversions and after two months they shipped the results to us. It didn't work and it wasn't safe for an indoor venue. It arrived a few days before opening day of the show.

Here's Bernie and Steve redesigning the whole system to make it safe and reliable:

Steve and Bernie on 9.8

Here we are at TIBS with Steve and Bernie plus John Adam from Tohatsu working on an installation. the tuning of the 9.8 was new territory and John mastered it!

plus John and Scott setting up another.