Vintage
Race Boat Shop
Vintage
Race Boat Shop
We maintain vintage wooden boats.
Saturday Morning Gatherings
If you get a chance, please stop by and join our "Saturday Morning Gatherings". We provide fresh pots of coffee, interesting projects to discuss, just added a big screen TV, and usually have some vintage boat racing videos playing in the background. If you want to join our therapy group, put on your grubbies and come join the fun. We usually have around 10/15 vintage addicts attending, and have a couple of rocking chairs, way too many donuts, hot coffee and lots of good vintage boat banter. Please come join us.
The coffee is usually ready by 9:00 - please bring donuts ???!!!
We are located in Wolfeboro, just off Bay Street, behind the large Laconia Electric building, across from the Sawmill Marina and the Wolfetrap.
Our 2007 Annual Shop Christmas Gathering
Thank you to all our friends for stopping by and making our annual Christmas Gathering for 2007 another huge
success. We cleaned up the shop pretty good, threw up some tinsel and lights on the overhead hoist, actually washed the floors and decorated our shop Christmas tree. Yup, we went all out again this year, Barbara Naramore delivered a huge shrimp platter from the WolfeCatch, but Al & Joan Craig out did us with their shrimp platter with lobster tails. We all had a great time, with lots of great vintage banter and videos, and all food donations were met with standing ovations ???!!!
On a personal note, George Johnson was a good friend and mentor to us, we all miss him dearly. But his spirit and passion for our beautiful vintage wooden boats lives on, and we are sure that George was looking down upon us, and smiling. Please take a moment and check out all the smiling faces in the photos below, this is what it is all about, good people and friends having fun.
Our 2006 Christmas Gathering was also a great success ???!!!
Thank you to all our friends for stopping by and making our annual Christmas
Gathering for 2006 another huge success. We cleaned up the shop pretty good, threw up some tinsel and lights on the overhead hoist, actually washed the floors and decorated our shop Christmas tree. Yup, we went all out this year, picked up a huge shrimp platter at the WolfeDen, but Al & Joan Craig out did us with their shrimp platter with lobster tails, and we had a special guest appearance by George Johnson!!!
Many of our good friends stopped by to join all the fun and to say hello to George. Ladies were especially welcomed, there were lots Christmas goodies/food, and we were showing boat videos with Christmas music in the background – it just doesn’t get any better. And Tony Coco again won the award for the best Santa hat ???!!!
Our 2005 Christmas Gathering was also a great success ???!!!
Yup - lots of good food, good friends, and the buzz of all those great stories, updates and vintage banter.
Many thanks to all our good friends - a grand Christmas Gathering ???!!!
Our first "Saturday Morning Gathering" was held on November 9, 2002 when Len Gardner and Ken Sandhage stopped by with donuts ???!!!
Len and Ken brought donuts again on November 16th, and Mark Howard also stopped by. After they all left, we finally got some work done - repairing the transom separation on Joe Anderer's 26 foot Hacker Craft - with our beloved 3M-5200 adhesive.
Varnishing techniques.
This very special and very rare Packard motor belongs to Mark Howard's Scotty, and was brought in the shop for detailing that first winter.
On Christmas Day - we got snowed in ???!!!
Miracle of Science gets prepped for varnish.
Work on Scotty has begun - detailing the bilge area.
Some of our regulars.
A special guest - Sam Rogers - previous owner of Scotty.
The ultimate varnish finishing technique - buffing and polishing.
The results are absolutely stunning ???!!!
Finally - the hardware goes back on.
And the trailer bunks get foam and carpeting.
Please stop by and join our Saturday Morning Gatherings.
The coffee is usually ready by 9:00 - please bring donuts ???!!!
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