Georgetown wooden boat show
 

for anyone nearby Georgetown, SC today, they are having the annual wooden boat show. I may ride up later today. I've got three friends that have their boats up there for the weekend. Weather looks a little iffy, but I still think I will go

Did you go?

Did you get any pics?

ended up working on a boat all day, I'm going to the NC one in March

Where is the NC show?

Beaufort, N.C.

I will put that on my list of events I want to attend but wont be able to because I have 3 active teenage kids.

sorry, its in May, http://www.ncmaritimemuseums.com/bea...s-weekend.html

Wilmington has one also http://cfcc.edu/martech/boatshow/


Charleston has had one in the past, but I don't think they had one ere this year.

I use ta go the Wooden Boat show in Va. it was some beautiful wooden boats there. The craftsmanship that goes into building and caring for boats like that is amazing. Loved the old Elco and ChrisCrafts, they all were nice!! I use to have a 37 ft. Colonial cabincruiser, pecan hull over whiteoak frames and mohogany interior. It had two slant six 225 chrysler marine six cylinders in it. Man that thing sounded sweet, still miss it!

Spare, I found this
"Views from the 24th Annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show (Georgetown, SC)"
on a recently discovered website called US 17 Coastal Highway. Pretty cool (the photos from the show and the site itself).
http://www.us17coastalhighway.com/20...getown-sc.html

I'm definitely going to put that boat show on my list.

That's a cool site about Hwy 17 Pipe! I spent an hour plus scanning through it and saw a few places I recognized. Whenever I travel I prefer to take the backroads, never know what you're gonna find. Added it to my favorites list. Thanks!

in that first picture, the big boat with the twin stacks is the Osprey http://ospreyboatcharters.com/ its owned by a good friend of mine, the web site hasn't been updated and it still list the late Lucas Smith as Captain. teh boat sitting in front of it is the Peaquad II, its owned by another friend of mine that lives near Long Beach, NC

Same here about taking backroads. We've done Hwy 17 south from here down to Jekyll Island and of course north up to Charleston and Mount Pleasant. Both directions are great trips. They recently finished improvements on the way to Charleston, making the always scenic trip much safer. I've been wanting to take it up through Georgetown and Myrtle Beach for a long time, and this website has made me want to do it soon!

Nice. I enjoyed reading about the boat's history and the "Flight of the Osprey." Very sad about her young Captain.

It sounds to me like this boat show could be a future meet up for V-20-ers.
http://scmaritimemuseum.org/ai1ec_ev...ow?instance_id

Agreed. Very sad, but it was something he caused himself. He killed both himself and his passenger. He was doing Ariel flips in an ultralight when the wing folded and they plummeted to the water. You can read the full story here:
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2...s-fatal-crash/

I forgot to mention, the Osprey used to be called the Blue Heron II, I fished that boat when I was growing up out of Sneeds Ferry, NC. It was the head boat out of Swan Point Marina, my friend Donnie had owned the Osprey for about a year before I figured out it was the old "Heron. Its a small world.

That is a cool site about US 17.

I have traveled different stretches of 17 for most of my life...when I was a kid living in Georgetown, it seemed like the trip to Charleston down 17 took 3 days.

Thanks for this thread SP...the only boats I like better than old V-20's are old wooden boats.

When I was a teen there was a wooden head boat that ran out of Holden Beach that I used to go out on...can't come up with the name right now though

Same here.