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boats home/st well catfish friend I am going to have to get a map of Jesup :lol: , I know you can throw a smooth flat river rock across it but its been a while, so I will do that today. Yes I think it would be great to talk about Jesup and the long time ago stuff, I am going to come down in...

un-sharp!! Well friend wammabe I think the ,not being very sharp comes from the heart attacks I had back in Oct.(2)in ten days. Things just are not the same anymore but I didn't know how bad until now Sorry Guys. :shock: I will work on it! henry j :o

concrete boats First I would like to say everyone will please over look my spelling, my fingers move faster than my old brain and I never go back and proof read it because then I would just delete the whole thing :lol: This has become a great past time for me and I enjoy all of the replys...

concrete boats I have heard of several big boats being made out of concrete, I guess you could say drydocks are just concrete boats. I like to see things that people come up with like the sail boat in Jesup,it took him I know for a fact 30 years to get it to the point it was when he died. He...

Hi CATFISH do you remember the guy in Jesup that built the big concrete boat in his yard, he worked at the paper mill and he built a 40' or so foot sail boat in his yard, I know he died before he finished it, It had turned green and the pine trees grew up around it some up to 85 ft. tall,I...

Doctor Town You are right about that old boat, but I think there is more than one. We use to see one right under the railroad bridge,(I think that is why I have to sleep with the lights on today :D ) because of that of stack sticking up in the water. Then the other boat sank later but it sat...

old cypress Hi seedtick, thanks for the help, I guess that is the very reason I didn't just jump in a pile of cypress and start building a "boat",because I didn't know all of that stuff and because of my lifes work (tool and die maker) I don't like to do things but once, so I will start looking...

Jesup/catfish Well old-sparkey Jesup has a lot of fish that came out of that old river and lots of them were catfish. I guess catfish has talked about the Altamaha river and the swamps, they held some of the biggest cypress trees in the south. A little town right on the river that was really a...

:D Hi guys and ladys ?? I am just getting into this wooden boat thing. I grew up in the southern part of Ga. (Jesup) where there was lot of swamps and flat land that could be a swamp anytime.. The wooden boats on the river (ALTAMAHA)were home made and the wood was Cypress. This was about 1950 an...