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Oh yeah. Big fun. With fun like that, who needs trials and tribulations?

Wonder what sawzall blade they use. Kinda a sawzal geek here <g>. Have done mucho sawzall'ing in my day. I think you'd want the "flesh with embedded bones" blade, but I'm no doctor.

put Tiny E and I down for 5 miles on wonderfully packed trails, upper 30's with the sun out- felt like Spring!

what's the saying? the two happiest days of a boat owner

smokepole- doesn't sound enjoyable, but if that's the only recourse

Nah, they trim the flesh away before they break out the bone blade.

Yerp. I got the thing home and........ now she's sitting under a tarp in the rain, awaiting the pile of money I no doubt will throw her way in the coming months.

But...... heh heh.... I got a ridiculous deal on it. It was a bona-fide Craigslist miracle. I beat out the whole city of Portland and I'm sure there was wailing and gnashing,,,, paid about 1/3 actual value. Could hardly sleep the night before; at that point I didn't know yet if I'd managed to be the first responder to the ad... but my night-owl ways won the day. It was a donated boat, being sold by the Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts). Nothing too fancy- 16' Hewes Sea Runner. If you google that you'll see some pretty delux-o $30k boats. This is an earlier one and is pretty utilitarian. But that's what I wanted, so.... perfect first fishin boat! I hope, haha.

that looks awfully like the first jet boat I ran as a game warden; does it have a jet or is it a prop?

Prop.... 40 HP Suzuki 2-stroke. Not really intending to go into skinny water with it; more like tidewaters, bay crabbing, and the big lakes in central Oregon for Kokanee, lake trout, etc.

But I WANT a jet boat!

Plus, a 20+ foot offshore boat to chase tuna.

Plus.... plus... plus....

Look at this crazy little solo river boat, Mike. Just add a relatively small jet and go find Bigfoot!

https://bend.craigslist.org/boa/d/12-hewescraft-mini-jet/6378189910.html

ETA: there's a decent chance you were in a Hewes River Runner. They are a fully legit boat and were early entrants into the PNW river sled game. Their Sea Runner-like mine- is a deep-V hull, which finds its happy place bustin' through chop. They say. [bleep] if I know.

We have a family place on the water in Puget Sound and that's one reason for this boat. My stepdad's boat is so cosmetically perfect that everyone is afraid to use it. I wanted something that can get good and bloody and you can drive it right up onto a rocky oyster-covered beach or the bank of a freestone river without a care. The Hewes are stout hulls with thick, unpainted bottom section. I can't wait to try her out. Also a bit skeered <g>.... I started the motor before buying, and it ran ok, but honestly I was getting such a ripping deal I was buying it just for the hull and nice galvanized trailer, if it came to that, so we didn't spend much time running it. The person who donated the boat to the BSA told them she's ready to go, works great... so fingers crossed. These days a Suzuki is a very expensive premium quality motor; I don't know if that was true when this one was built, or not, though it was made in Japan and I gotta say, I'm a huge fan of machines made in Japan.

that does look like a deeper v than I had, mine was made by Almar and did have more v than most jet boats would have (my next jet boat was a Woolridge that was much more flat)

boats can be an expensive hobby

5 mile walk

ran 12 miles with local running group yesterday; surprisingly my running hasn't suffered much with a couple of weeks of almost all hiking

4 miles on the trails with my wife and Tiny E- should have brought our micro spikes- little slick on the downhills

yesterday am- 200 yards of lunges, 4x50 air squats

pm- 3 miles on the trails with my wife and Tiny E, brought our microspikes this time- much better

yesterday 4 miles on the trails with my wife and Tiny E, will need to start bringing headlamps

last night after our hike I came down with a rather violent stomach bug, missed work today- feeling better this evening, but not great- hoping by morning it’s done!

thankfully it was a 24 hour bug, but a nasty one- missed a day of work, back to work today and got 3 miles in with my wife and Tiny E- feeling much better

I've been lucky to dodge all the bugs so far.

Still walk the dogs 5 miles in the mornings and since hunting season is over and the weather is deteriorating I'm back in the gym. Got in a few good hikes. Helped a young partner pack his deer out of a hole. Stashed a few gallons of water on top of the ridge in this pic. It was in the low 20's that night and the wind was 20-30 mph all night. I let my partners use my 2-man and I used my Shangri-la 1, it held together but the wind blew basically unimpeded under the tent. You can actually see the lights of my town 4600' below.

That's a great pic!

"Poured my countertops today". Somehow that glosses over the mixing concrete in a wheelbarrow part. Back spasms. I must admit, I fell off the wagon and took ibuprofen. I would not recommend this workout as a normal part of a regime.

12 very tough miles on the mountain; 12+” of snow in places- wind has done a real number on the snow

3.5 miles on the trails with Tiny Elvis- started 40 and cloudy, finished 40 and pouring rain- that picked up our pace

6-ish miles on icy trails yesterday evening, microspikes for the win!

Nice. Well done.

Hung cabinets, installed 175-lb cast iron Kohler sink, plumbed it in, etc yesterday. Stiff and sore this morning, so there's some kinda workout there.

It's all coming out really nice- loving the concrete top. And the total rebuild of the cabinet area under the sink was correcting an Ancient Evil, so that's cool.

Wonder how SP's ankle is doing....