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 Vintage
Race Boat Shop
We maintain vintage wooden boats.
Our Saturday Morning Gatherings
If you get a chance, please stop by and join our
Saturday
Morning Gatherings. We provide fresh pots of coffee, shop projects
to discuss, 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 wonderers attending,
with a couple of rocking chairs,
hot coffee, way too many donuts, and lots
of good vintage
boat banter. Please join us, all are welcome.
The coffee is usually ready by 9:00
AM - please bring donuts !!!
We are located
on King Street in Wolfeboro, just off Bay Street, behind the large Laconia
Electric building and across from the Sawmill Marina and the Wolfetrap.
Our 2009
Annual Shop Christmas Gathering - lots of photos !!!
 Thank
you to all our friends for stopping by and making our annual
Christmas Gathering for 2009 another huge success. We
cleaned up our shop pretty good, threw up some tinsel and
lights on the overhead hoist, and
decorated our shop Christmas tree. Yup, we went all out
again this
year, and Brian Small brought his annual Christmas ham that
Hank Why just inhaled. We all had a great
time, with lots of great vintage banter
and videos, and all food
donations were met with standing ovations !!!
And for a titch of Christmas mischief, we hung some mistletoe on our
Christmas lights, right over the entrance door. Then we took lots of photos
of the Christmas cheer with good friends.
  
 
Our 2008 Annual
Shop Christmas Gathering
 Thank
you to all our friends for stopping by and making our annual
Christmas Gathering for 2008 another huge success. We
actually painted the shop walls, replaced the carpet with
new tile, cleaned up the bathroom pretty good, threw up some tinsel and
lights on the overhead hoist, and
decorated our shop Christmas tree. Yup, we went all out
again this
year, and Brian Small brought his annual Christmas ham that
Bob Mueller just inhaled. We all had a great
time, with lots of great vintage banter
and videos, and all food
donations were met with standing ovations!!!
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.
Thais is what it is all about, good people and good friends,
gathering.
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!!!
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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.
Click
here for Scotty's Webpage.
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 were 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 ???!!!
Some related vintage race
boat links:
The Vintage Hydroplanes
APBA
- American Power Boat Association
Hydroplane & Race Boat Museum
APBA Vintage Race Boat Circuit
APBA Vintage Race Boat Circuit - lots
of photos
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