Tom Wesenberg
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Yesterday our club had a pancake breakfast and went on a 100 mile mystery tour. We ended up at the Mahogany Bay boat restoration shop and sales. I had 15 photos, but somehow managed to hit the wrong button while downloading them and I deleted all but these 3 pictures. We saw over 100 very high end restored and some unrestored wood boats, many costing over a million dollars. If you do a Google search for "MAHOGANY BAY" in Mound, MN you can see many of the fine boats we looked at yesterday.
Next door to the restoration shop some firemen waved for me to come over. I figured they just wanted to say "hi", but they wanted me to see their Model A fire truck. At first glance it looked like a 1929 AA, but the gas cap, headlights, and front bumper let me know it's an early 1930 AA. Also notice it has a winterfront with manually operated sutters that can be adjusted from full open to completely closed. Parked next to it was an 1883 man pulled ladder with a bunch of one gallon leather buckets, so the guys could scoop up water to throw on the fire. The ladder is propped up to keep it out of the way for the guys walking around the trucks. The ladder is raised by a long threaded rod and hand crank.
The 1905 22 foot launch I have pictured is described in the website for Mahogany Bay. It's powered by a Universal flathead 4 with the same Zenith carb the Model A uses. This was one of my favorites, but at $50,000 even this boat was out of my price range.
I was gone from 8 AM to 8 PM and it rained all day until we just finished our visit to the boat shop, so at least the ride home was dry and gave my car a chance to dry out. A Phaeton without side curtains isn't the best choice for rain.
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