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miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 799
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 - 12:52 pm: | 
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This year is the 100th anniversary of the patent on the DisPro Device.
The DisPro will be the feature of the ACBS Toronto Chapter Boat Show in Gravenhurst Ontario, with an expected attendance of about 100 boats.
Later, on August 8, 2015, in Port Carling , the site of the original DisPro factory, there will be a day of celebrations likely involving some adult beverages, af ew well chosen words for boats that don't behave, and fun all around.
You can imagine what a small town might look like after a bunch of Dippy Owners converge on it.
Miro |
Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 2008
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 - 04:58 pm: |
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Well kind of Dippy I would say... |
J.B. Castagnos
Senior Member
Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 1026
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 - 06:55 pm: |
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Sounds good Miro, we'll be waiting for a report. |
Robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 668
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2015 - 03:46 am: |
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Makes you wonder if there would be a market for a boat using the same principle today, perhaps with electric propulsion even? |
miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 802
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 10:39 pm: |
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Some of the guys actually have built the forms and have created electric drives for them, but alas, most folks was speed and convenience.
The biggest hurdle was the casting for the body of the device - it's big and thin.
Slow wooden boats are a tough sell I guess (except in Louisiana)
For myself, I usually take off the engine cover so I can see the engine running as well as hearing the pop pop pop plus enjoy the aroma of old oil mixed with a soupcon of bilge debris and droppings.
Ahhhh - the smell of spring in the water.
m |
Bruce Hall
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 481
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2015 - 02:51 pm: |
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Well Miro, Will the ice be off the Muskoka's by July first this year?? |
B. Goss
Senior Member
Username: bgoss
Post Number: 225
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2015 - 09:44 pm: |
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The snow on top will be melted by then...should make for good skating. |
RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3533
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2015 - 01:15 am: |
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