Gulf Coaster Hobbies

How many of you have one other than hunting?
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Gulf Coaster Hobbies

Post by kenh » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:15 am

Hi All;

Ken Hulme here on the Gulf Coast of Fl.

I live aboard my floating retirement home (26 ft Caribbean-capable sailboat with solar panels for 12v). So one "hobby" is boatkeeping -- all the piddly things that keep a boat shipshape, so that I wake up "on the dry side of the water".

I am also a Personal Chef in my copious free time :rolf: so cooking and developing recipes is a hobby as well as a way to fuel the ole body.

I also mess around with wood. In particular thin wood. Most especially wooden musical instruments like Mountain Dulcimers and a variety of Psalteries and Lyres. And bows, of course. Like the one in my Avatar photo. I'm currently trying to master (in wood and glass) the extreme curves of the Scythian style bows from 2500 years ago.
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Re: Gulf Coaster Hobbies

Post by KsBow » Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:43 am

Cool Ken. I don't see your avatar picture however. Welcome aboard. :campfire:
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Post by hawkthrower » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:17 pm

Great to have you aboard! Love to play dulcimer...... post some pictures of your creations I'd love to see one.....and try that avatar again still can't see it.
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Re: Gulf Coaster Hobbies

Post by kenh » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:45 pm

FINALLY! Got the bloody avatar picture reduced miniscule enough to fit 120 x 120 pixels!
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Post by eddie c » Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:36 am

kenh wrote:FINALLY! Got the bloody avatar picture reduced miniscule enough to fit 120 x 120 pixels!
yeah, I liked to never gotten my reduced down either. :lol:

welcome aboard. :campfire:
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Re: Gulf Coaster Hobbies

Post by Winter Hawk » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:08 pm

kenh wrote: I live aboard my floating retirement home (26 ft Caribbean-capable sailboat with solar panels for 12v). So one "hobby" is boatkeeping -- all the piddly things that keep a boat shipshape, so that I wake up "on the dry side of the water".
What type of boat is that?

When I lived in Oregon and Alaska I had several sailboats; the largest was a 27' Catalina which we bought in Seattle and cruised up to Ketchikan. The idea was to have something my wife and I could stay on when I was out in the field with the survey crew for the Tongass National Forest. Then I quit the Forest Service and we sold the boat to pay for adoption of our youngest son.

Now I have a 12' sailboat of indeterminate make which I traded a canoe for, but have yet to take it out. Maybe this year!

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