Boat spill kills 2
23.02.52
A boating accident on Tustumena Lake claimed the lives of two people late Friday night. Ashley Udelhoven, 47, and Katarina Anderson, 16, both of Kenai, were found dead Saturday night during a search of the lake after authorities had received word there was boating debris in the water, according to Alaska State Troopers Information Officer Beth Ipsen.
There were three survivors: Hanna Udelhoven, 13, and Miranda Udelhoven, 15, both of Soldotna; and their friend, Athena Robinson, 12, of Sterling.
Authorities said Ashley Udelhoven, along with his two daughters and their two friends, headed out Friday about 9:30 p.m. for an outing. The waters were calm until their 18-foot aluminum boat reached halfway across the lake. The winds started picking up and the boat was swamped and sank about two miles from shore, according to Ipsen.
Source: Kenai Peninsula Online
DAVID G. SELLARS ON THE WATERFRONT: Classic boat getting high-tech scan for ...
05.06.11
Lillian S, a 100-year-old wooden boat moored to the end of “N” float in Port Angeles Boat Haven for as long as casual observers of the waterfront can recall, was hauled out last week and is now on the “hard” of Platypus Marine’s yard.
Robert Montgomery, who has owned the 90-footer for the past couple of years, is doing some minor repairs as well as a little painting around the boot stripe.
However, the primary reason the Lillian S is out of the water is to have her hull documented for the Historic American Engineering Record, or HAER, for inclusion in the Library of Congress.
HAER is a program administered by the National Park Service and
Source: Peninsula Daily
Memories of a boat
23.02.30
The temperature drop was immediate. Jim Berkshire and I looked at each other, neither having a jacket. We were fishing up the Colorado River at O.H. Ivie Reservoir. We could not see the violent storm that was coming from the south.
I started the motor on my aluminum 17-foot bass boat and headed for the Concho Park Marina. As we turned the corner and looked toward the boat ramp, strong winds were pushing tall waves toward us.
About halfway to where the Colorado and Concho rivers meet, a large wave started to push the front of the boat over toward us. "It almost got us, so I'm going to buy a bigger boat someday," I told my wife when I got home.
It was the mid-1990s. I placed ads and sold the aluminum boat within two weeks. I went to the credit union for a letter of credit so I could buy a bigger, heavier bass boat. "A longer boat would take the rough water on the big lakes," I told myself.
Source: San Angelo Standard Times
Warren Coco of Go-Devil Manufacturers donated an 18-foot aluminum boat with trailer and a 35-hp surface drive for fundraising use. This unit was selected specifically for Louisiana Ducks Unlimited with the serial number of 25000.
bay and flats boats to pontoon, aluminum and bass boats. At 455 pounds, the four-cylinder, 3-liter, in-line motor weighs only 24 pounds more than Mercury's 150 OptiMax two-stroke outboard, which makes it ideal for boats 18-24 feet.