Wooden Boat Restoration Requires Proper Housing & Dozens of Tools, According ...
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Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) May 14, 2012
At the Antique and Classic Boat Society’s Restoration Symposium/Workshop recently held in Cincinnati, OH, Antique Boat Center President, Dennis Ryan, presented several factors that determine success when restoring a classic boat . Along with Service Manager and event instructor Joel Terbrueggen, Ryan shared the following restoration principles and techniques with attendees of workshop.
The most important first step in wooden boat restoration is finding a place to house the project. A garage, barn, tented structure – any enclosed area to protect the boat and equipment from weather is the workshop you need. Allow enough space to move around the boat with long pieces of wood. Next, you must secure access to the proper equipment: Power tools, jigsaw, circular saw, planer, drill press, and band saw will enable you to complete most woodworking needed. A cordless drill or two will make the job of fastener removal and replacement easier. A digital camera may be the most significant tool you need, since documenting the disassembly will help with reassembly some months later. Taking as many as 300 pictures will pay off time and time again when reassembling hundreds of parts.
Source: PR Web (press release)
Sisters on the Fly hit the road in vintage trailers
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Brawny pickups and SUVs sporting trailer hitch ball mounts and license plates from Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma pack a scrubby rock courtyard behind a picture-postcard farmhouse in Louisburg, Kan. Around front, eight camping trailers stand stem to stern in tight formation facing the open doors of a two-story white barn.
Extension cords have been laid, canopies staked, logs for the campfire cut and stacked, coolers and camp chairs arrayed in a circle. The sun hangs low in the west, and the campers are ready for a hard-earned happy hour.
One by one they emerge from their trailers in cowboy boots and lace petticoats, floor-length gowns and mod '60s sheaths topped with fur stoles. They sip lemon drop martinis and snack on sliced Twinkies speared with toothpicks and crackers sprayed with canned Easy Cheese as Marvin Gaye wails "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" on a boom box. Fragrant pinion wood smolders in a tiny chiminea.
Source: Bellingham Herald
Vintage race cars take over New Hampshire Motor Speedway
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Lou Modestino has been The Enterprise's Motorsports Writer for over four decades. Since then Lou covered the northeast and other events for Stock Car Magazine, Circle Track&Highway Magazine among others. Modestino also spent 22 years doing out-of-state PR for the Oxford Plains Speedway(Maine)Opens.
He was at that track from the inception of the Oxford 250 Late Model race working for both the Bahre and Liberty ownerships at the oval. Lou has also held PR/Press Agent responsibilities at such tracks as the Seekonk and Westboro Speedway, Lee Speedway in New Hampshire and Thompson Speedway in Connecticut.
In the mid-80s Modestino began to syndicate New England Motorsports and TV Times Columns which he still does today for various daily, weekly, trade papers and numerous internet webpages coast-to-coast. Lou did all this as a second job while working in a management position at the Polaroid Corp. in Norwood, Mass. Taking an early retirement from that company in 1996, Modestino focused on consultant work for various motorsports entities. Those responsibilities included some close coordination with various main steam media outlets like daily papers and TV stations. Also, marketing for various client tracks and race teams.
Source: Enterprise News (blog)