Maine Lobster Boat by popeye the sailor - FINISHED - Midwest Products

[Sjors]

He Popeye,

 

Guess what……I see pictures of buoys and water-skis       

 

Very funny and great work!

 

Sjors

[trippwj]

Looking good, Popeye!  Sjors - I have your first order ready - where should we send the bill?????

[popeye the sailor]

their best when cooked to order.........wow!!  they're expensive!

 

 

thanks Sjors.......now would I try to fool you with something else?

Edited March 10, 2013 by popeye the sailor

[Jim Lad]

$8.99 a pound expensive, Popeye?  Wow, I wish I could find Crays that cheap over here!!!

 

John

[popeye the sailor]

chicken lobsters go for anywhere from $4.99 to $6.99 / LB around here right now.   they can be found on sale for $3.99,  if you look for them.  I like to look in the tanks at the big ones

[augie]

Up here they are $24/pound, uncooked.  You see, lobsters have a difficult time climbing up the sides of the Rocky Mountains  

[Jim Lad]

Can't see why, Augie.  I would have thought those claws would be a big help.

 

John

[augie]

John --- think inside the box.  Insufficient gill capacity

[Sjors]

Looking good, Popeye!  Sjors - I have your first order ready - where should we send the bill?????

 

Wayne,

 

You can send the bill to our government, they take all our money……..

 

Sjors

[Sjors]

their best when cooked to order.........wow!!  they're expensive!

 

 

thanks Sjors.......now would I try to fool you with something else?

I hope not Popeye 

 

Sjors

[popeye the sailor]

Sjors..........you are   'too cool!' 

 

tha's an interesting thought Augie.....must be so sad not to taste  'real seafood'  that far inland....my brother in law lives in Texas,  and he hates the seafood down there.....nothing like up here.

 

that's an interesting observation John.......they say that every creature is adapted to it's enviroment......can you imagine what a mountain lobster would look like.........scarry!

[augie]

Rocky mountain lobster !

[trippwj]

Hmm...wonder if Rocky Mountain Lobster would control the Prairie dog population...

[augie]

Wayne has a better memory than I do    

[themadchemist]

Rocky Mountain Lobster? Hope that's not like the rocky mountain oysters.

 

Great job, with the build and keeping it fun,

 

Keith

[popeye the sailor]

thanks Keith............are you referring to the  'bovine' delicasy?   LOL!

[themadchemist]

YUP!

I can remember castration day on the farm as a boy the vet always got the rock mountain oysters, or at least ours did. Then my 1st job in high school was in a packing house. I've never actually had them though.

 

Keith

[themadchemist]

Maybe you could take the pleasure barge colorado river rapids runnin' and catch some of those Rocky Mountain Lobster while riding the white water, while pulling 2 water skiers. I think the Phylly C's up to the challenge.

 

Now what do Rocky Mountain Lobster traps look like?

 

Keith

[rlb]

I think I'll pass on those oysters, but Rocky Mountain Lobsters...isn't that a baseball team? 

 

Ron

[popeye the sailor]

I'll pass on 'em as well........sounds too much like a fetish....LOL!  wouldn't have the foggyest on how to catch them .......perhaps the correct term would be snared......rather than caught.

[trippwj]

Mistah Popeye, sir -

 

'twas a listening to one of them new fangled CD things tonight with mothah, and thaht I would share with you one of the stories told by Mr. Marshall Dodge.  great man, he were.  This heah is the story about a day on the watah with his mother in law lobsterin'.  I hope, sir, that you enjoy!

 

http://www.islandportpress.com/BIseteragain.html

 

[popeye the sailor]

I would listen to it Wayne.......but it wouldn't work for me.  thanks for thinking of me.

 

 

I figure I had better post something on this build.......lobster fever is starting to overflow into other threads.........I'm going to get the riot act!  anyway........I decided to make up the sail for the Denny-Zen,  at the same time that I made them for the AmericA build.   I couldn't find the diagram for the lobster boat,  so I took some quick measurements and traced it out on the material supplied in the kit.

 

 

 

it was then cut out,  and the edging and the pleats were sewn in.   once it was trimmed and Ironed,  it was painted over with a diluted solution of white glue and water. 

 

 

then it was laid on plastic wrap to dry

 

 

when it was dry.....it looks like this.

 

 

I'll have another update soon........the sail will be rigged onto the mast.

 

 

[Jim Lad]

Nice sail, Popeye!

 

John

[DSiemens]

thank you all again folks!  I keep telling the admiral that it's not true that ships are the only things we {I} think about......nice to know this proves my point. 

 

Just reading up.  Good to know I'm not the only one with this problem.  Oh and did some one say Sjors was buying?

[popeye the sailor]

thanks John........I should get back to this build soon........before I forget anything I have in mind......

 

 

thanks Daniel.......yea.....she thinks I have a one track mind,  but I tell her.......no.....I think about ANY type of ship.  there's a lot to think about,  you know    you do have me at a loss though.....what is Sjors buying?

[Sjors]

Sjors is buying nothing because everybody is screaming about lobsters…….

 

Me

[popeye the sailor]

now that the sails are all done,  the assembly process can continue.   I figured that I'd rig this one first,  before getting back to the AmericA build.   the beauty of this sail,  is that there is no manipulation to it.

    once it is errected it just stays put.  it is merely there to keep the boat from rocking while the traps are being brought up,  unloaded,  and rebaited.   the mast is removable,  later the entire structure can be folded up,  or even taken down completely and stored on the deck.  there wasn't any tackle at all in the kit, just sail material and string.  I added in the 5mm double block for the down haul and the boom lift.

 

 

there's a bit more I have to do.........I'll finish this off when I get back to it.

[captainbob]

Ah,  She looks good with her sail up and the work space full of lobsta pots.

 

Bob

[popeye the sailor]

thanks Bob.....it's almost done...then I can do more with the traps.

[augie]

Nice Popeye.  That sail is a GREAT touch.