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On May 5, the Boat Building Subgroup met at The Boatshop at Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH. The Boatshop at Strawbery Banke explores and celebrates maritime skills, experiences and traditions through hands-on boat building, workshops, lectures and other activities.
Last year, at our first visit, the newly expanded shop was just getting started. Nate Piper, our host and director of the shop, told us about some of the local maritime history and we had an opportunity to tour the gundalow Piscataqua. This year, Nate is well into the "Hands on Boats" project.
This project is a complete replication of a Piscataqua River Wherry. The replica wherry currently under construction is based on the lines taken off of an historic vessel, which is part of the Strawbery Banke Museum collection. The original is in quite a state of disrepair, and it was fascinating to learn how Nate and the students took measurements, made a table of offsets, and lofted a full size plan. The project will continue at whatever pace is necessary until the boat is finished. Nate is totally committed to disseminating information, knowledge and skills related to boat building and the local maritime history. Adults may register for the sessions at any point. More information is available here: http://www.boatshopatstrawberybanke.org/handsonboats.html
As always, we round out our meetings with members discussing their current projects and sharing stories and advice.
We now have had our May meeting here for two consecutive years. With Nate's consent, we are excited to designate the first Saturday in May as an annual meeting of the Boat Building Subgroup at The Boatshop at Strawbery Banke. We hope that all Guild members will keep this date in mind. It is a fun and fascinating way to spend the day.
Stan Paras
Please be aware that there is a scammer answering these ads. Be careful!!!!
I recommend that you only take CASH or checks from people you know. Very little of the stuff that is advertised is so rare or such a great deal that someone would hire an “agent” to ship it.
BE CAREFUL!!!!
Peter
If you are selling something online, as a business or through classifieds ads, you may be targeted by an overpayment scam.
The scammer will contact you, make you an offer—often quite generous—then make payment through credit card or cheque. They will be for an amount that is greater than the agreed price.
The scammer will contact you with an apology for the overpayment, offering a fake excuse. The scammer might tell you that the extra money was included to cover agent’s fees or extra shipping costs. Or they may just say they simply made a mistake when writing the cheque.
The scammer will then ask you to refund the excess amount or they will ask for you to forward the amount through to a third party. They will ask for this to through an online banking transfer, pre-loaded money card, or a wire transfer such as Western Union. You then discover that their cheque has bounced or the credit card had been a stolen or fake card.
A newer variation on this scam involves online sales, usually through classified sites, where the scammer pretends to have made a payment for a larger than agreed amount through services such as PayPal by sending a fake receipt of payment. The scammer will claim that the money is being held until you forward on the extra money.
If you send any money, you will not get it back. If you have already sent the ‘sold’ item you will lose this as well. At the very least, the scammer will have wasted your time and prevented you from accepting any legitimate offers on your sale.
I just wanted other Sellers to be careful as I see some valuable machines for sale here.
