Mama Rosa update….

[chris pearson]

Hi guys. My $100, OT Charles River/ Long Boat Co, “Mama Rosa” canoe is slowly getting what she deserves, lots of love! I just successfully bent up the mahogany combing! I was worried of epic failure! Anyhow, many of you saw her at the assembly and “laughed”. Gotta have goals! Soon she will have her new skin!

 

[chris pearson]

Btw, I’m going to slow down on posts on FB group “Friends of the WCHA”. About a 10:1 membership ratio to the WCHA, they should be gaining knowledge here, where they belong…..

 

[Todd F]

Lookin nice Chris! I never laugh at anyone, only with them. Life is better that way. OK, back to the Bills game!

 

[Todd F]

And dare I say, a cold Corona? Nope, IPA

 

[chris pearson]

Go Bills!!!

 

[Worth Gretter]

I'm with Todd, I don't laugh -- especially at WCHA members who continually amaze me with the quality of their workmanship.

 

[MGC]

Go Bills!!!

It's a slight drift, but wow.....JA is from a different planet. And Cook, what a motor.
Seeing Allen doing snow angels with McD was quite amusing.
No Corona served here....Weihenstephaner..... why settle?

 

[chris pearson]

Mama Rosa getting new skin…

 

[patrick corry]

Am I seeing that you use a pneumatic stapler? If so, anything special about the staples? Stainless steel I presume. I use the same vice grips and a 4"x4"piece of 1/4" plywood as a fulcrum over the inwale corner.

Thanks, Pat

 

[chris pearson]

Pat, yup. Dave Osborn posted that he started using one so I bought one, omg, I love it!!!!!

 

[chris pearson]

Stop with the Corona you guys. The one time I make a mistake and Gil opens his big mouth! My go to is Sierra Nevada, love the stuff. Yes, it’s not a micro brew, but damn good. We have plenty of those to choose from hear in Holland!

 

[Todd F]

Pale Ale / Torpedo / Hazy IPA...all good Sierra Nevada options

 

[MGC]

Weihenstephan,..... Ommegang as a fall back but Genny in a pinch..

 

[chris pearson]

I grew up with Genny. I even go to the micro brewery in high falls every single time I come home! BTW, I also love the dinosaur!!! And my dad shipped out of that train station to flight school in chapel hill NC for the navy. Flew Stearmans and was just about to get his Corsair when the war ended. He was an American badass mother effer!!!!! Even had a Chief Indian motorcycle! RIP dad!!!! He even got permanently band from the Rochester airport when he took a rented piper cub over charlotte beach and did a loop de loop for my mother!!!!!! Absolutely true story!!!

 

[Dave Wermuth]

You're a chip off the ole block.

 

[MGC]

I'm starting to understand Mama Rosa ....12 Horse is available again...for how long we don't know.

 

[pklonowski]

Sierra Nevada Celebration...

 

[Dan Miller]

Sierra Nevada Celebration...

Yup. A tradition every year.

 

[MGC]

Yup. A tradition every year.

Guys, up your game. Delerium Noel is (aside from Weihenstephaner Festbeer) the one to look forward to every year.....not that there is anything wrong with SN.
No comments about the water in the Genessee River?
Chris and I are prepared to point out that the water is actually from a tiny pure Finger Lake where you are not allowed to stand in the water to launch a canoe. The Europeans are not the only ones with purity laws.

 

[chris pearson]

My Dad and uncle worked at the Genesee river boat house as teenagers. My uncle owned it in the 60’s!