After buying a summer cottage for $2500 on a 60×80 lot which he paid off in 5 years by putting 10$ a week from the family budget of 100$/week fireman’s salary (early 60s) Dad decided we needed a boat so he built built one in the basement) which was also a PM boat.
It think it was about 4×10 totally square front and back slanted 45 degrees. Seems it took a million brass screws Thankfully my uncle had “borrowed” them from his employer “DOSCO” where they made steel beams, nails and… brass screws
The boat got fully assembled for fit and came spring time… he had to take it apart (unscrewed) to take it out of the basement … as planned from the beginning.
He was not going to get his buddies fire station joke about him for years because of a boat sitting in the basement 🙂
Dad meant to return the screws when the boat rotted away years later … but he kept most of them 🙂 in tomato cans
Love for fishing and boating starts in many strange ways but will last for years.
Our job is to pass the flame.
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