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Ernie
| | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 08:20 pm: | 
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WOW!
What a show! Bigger and better than ever. Pics to follow. I will post a few here and forward the rest to Andrew for addition to the Calvert 04 section.
Lots of new faces and engines.
If you missed it this year plan on it for next year. |
Ernie
| | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 08:26 pm: |
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Also
A very big thanks to the Calvert Marine Museum, Doug Alves,Richard Dodds and all the staff that we didn't get to meet.
Helen and Ernie |
Richard Day
| | Posted on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 02:20 pm: |
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It was a great show. The weather cooperated despite the predictions and some very interesting engines and exhibitors turned up. Dick and Barbara Day. |
Dick Gibbens
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 12:47 pm: |
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What a GREAT SHOW in the company of GREAT PEOPLE! Thanks to all that contribute to our hobby. Let's do it again! We just got back to the sunny south, had a good trip home. Dick |
KEITH
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 03:38 pm: |
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Best Marine Engine Show in the USA.It's a place where you can learn the tricks of running engines. J.B. showed us how to run and engine without a carb., or rather with the most primative of carbs. (a gasoline soaked rag) If you didn't make the show, you missed out, for "A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL." |
J.B. Castagnos
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 08:11 pm: |
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The show was great, got to meet people I've been talking to for years. We had technical discussions and bull sessions, all enjoyable. I hate to start naming names for fear of forgetting someone, maybe when the pictures are up we can label them. One of our group, John Smietana, the dory owner, started having chest pains Sunday night. He didn't want to go to the hospital on the road, we were glad to get home, he checked into the hospital and found he has blockage, will probably undergo heart surgery in the next day or so. |
Ernie
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 08:15 pm: |
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JB,
Please keep us posted on John. Also let him know we are thinking of him.
Ernie and the bunch from the northeast. |
Ernie
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 08:22 pm: |
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Here is the guy responsible for the running Fisherman. And the Fisherman that ran with the "squeeze the textile" carb
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Richard Day
| | Posted on Thursday, May 06, 2004 - 05:16 pm: |
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Good luck John. We are all pulling for you. I went through it two years ago and they fixed me right up. We sure enjoyed your whole group and you all brought us a lot of new ideas on how to work with these old timers. I enjoyed the "textile carburetor" but hate to think what might happen if the engine backfired. My 5 hsp Bulldog that a neighbor gave me after his family switched to an oil fired furnace cut a lot of cord wood using a #10 can with a sponge soaked in gasoline under the intake pipe. Worked great and they never bothered to change it. Reminds me of the watermen setting their engines on fire in the winter to warm them up so they could start them.
Glad you all got home safe and looking forward to the next show. |
richarddurgee
| | Posted on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 06:59 pm: |
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What a show: To me it will always be The Dick Day
Calvert Marine engine Show.
Want to thank all that make it happen each year.
Such a very special group of people and some of their special marine engines. Like the television commercial says " It doesn't get any better than this"
John S. thinking of you and wishing for a fast recovery, please keep in touch and let us know how your doing.
Thanks to all for your company and making it such a Great weekend. Already looking foreward to next years show !! |
Richard Day
| | Posted on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 07:51 pm: |
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Richard thanks for the accolades but really Richard Dodds and the museum staff made the show the sucess it is. |
andrew
| | Posted on Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 08:37 pm: |
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Sounds like it was a great show, sorry I missed it...
Send me some pictures and I will post them, or post some of your own here, or in a new thread.
Regards, Andrew |
Ernie
| | Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 02:23 pm: |
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Andrew,
I will send you a zip file in a day or so.
Thanks
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rbprice
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 08:56 am: |
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Just want to add my two cents to this thread. It was a really, really great show with some of the best people you could ever want to meet and know. A real highlight in my life.
THANKS VERY MUCH TO ALL WHO WERE THERE AND MADE IT POSSIBLE.
Bob Price |
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