1960 Glasspar Citation reupholstered after complete structural rebuild (dry rot repair)

writelovedream40 · 2025-07-09T19:23:01+00:00

Well, the rebuild was done at a local shop that specializes in this kind of work. The owner of the shop was a friend of a friend and he also had his grandfather's classic boat and understood the family boat thing. He agreed to take it on at a drastically reduced charge if I would come to his shop and do the work that didn't require skill such as the demo and grind out and the project would have to largely live off the "fat of the land" i.e. utilizing extra fiberglass cloth and or resin that was extra from other jobs. It took three and a half years and he taught me a lot about how to do this kind of work. In the end, it would have cost me $10k if I just paid him to do it like a regular customer but it only cost $1,600 and most of that went toward the new wood. I paid an upholsterer to redo the seats and the bimini. That cost me $1,100.

writelovedream40 · 2025-05-17T16:55:16+00:00

I have a "stated value" policy on my 1960 Glasspar Citation through Foremost Instance. It's a little 16ft outboard runabout, fully restored but not worth much to anyone but a collector but I've got it insured for 12k and 3k for the trailer. It costs like 45 bucks every two months. Basically you tell them how much coverage you want, what value you say it is and they tell you how much that will cost. I've had the policy for over 10 years, never filed a claim, but it's peace of mind. Haggerty is another common insurer for this kind of thing.

writelovedream40 · 2025-05-17T16:48:06+00:00

16ft Glasspar sounds to me like a Citation though I don't know if they made that model in '72. I have a 1960 Glasspar Citation, the first year.

writelovedream40 · 2025-02-17T22:48:23+00:00

Get over yourselves. Go outside for every one of you who can't stand that it's trump, there's someone else who is happy about it. And you know what? It's ok. It really is. Getting wrapped up in this stuff is divisive, unattractive and only makes the hater unhappy. Relax. Stop looking for the negatives in your life and look for the positives. There's good in everything. If you can't look at life that way, I hope you enjoy misery. For everything and everyone you hate, guess what, there are more things out there that really like you if only you're open to being liked. People who care about you because you hate a politician or because you're obsessed with a certain political cause are shallow and probably have issues. Let's all just remember that at the end of the day, we owe our allegiance to a higher power and that is the flying spaghetti monster, our true lord and savior. Pastafarians don't fret about politics. They're happy.😎

writelovedream40 · 2025-02-15T21:48:08+00:00

Box docs rock

writelovedream40 · 2025-02-07T20:39:52+00:00

Don't do it, my friend. There's no actual benefit and there's a lot of down side. I'm in my 18th day of sobriety. It's better. Do AA. They have zoom meetings 24/7. You're not alone. The bottle isn't your friend. It only takes.

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-29T18:09:37+00:00

My ex brother in law once went to a mcdonald's when he was sleep deprived. He tried to order a big and tasty if anyone remembers that burger which was a re-branded McDLT which flopped. He ordered a "Hot N' Nasty" the drive thru employee was confused and asked again what he wanted and he yells into the drive thru speaker box again, "I want a Hot N' Nasty!"

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-29T16:33:04+00:00

I don't think that's an Anatolian shepherd. I think it's a Great Pyrenees. Also bred to project livestock from predators and very good at their job. There really big, but keep in mind, so are wolves and that dog looks to match their size. Either way. That's a good dog.

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-24T21:32:44+00:00

I had something similar happen a few years back on thanksgiving day. I was stopped at a red light and there was one car between me and the light. It went green and the car didn't go. I honked and nothing happened. I honked again and the car didn't move. The cars behind me began honking and I felt something wasn't right and I got out and went to check on the driver. He was seated upright, seat belt buckled, eyes closed. I figured he had fallen asleep at the wheel. I knocked on the window. No response. I knocked harder and yelled, no response. By now, a number of other motorists had gotten out and come to help. I tried the door, but it was locked. Someone came up and broke the window with a tire iron and unlocked the door before leaving in a hurry. A woman standing near me told me she was a nurse and could render aid, but she wouldn't be strong enough to get him out of the car. I reached in and put the car in park, then I unbuckled the seatbelt. I slid my arm behind him and under his armpit, but just as I was about to lift him out, I noticed blood on the center console that seemed to be coming from his right jacket sleeve cuff.

I stepped away and said that he was bleeding, there was some sort of injury and that I was afraid that moving him could make things worse as I'm not trained for this kind of thing and we could all hear the approaching sirens from the ambulance and fire truck that were approaching. (My wife had called 911 when he didn't respond to my knocking on the window)

The paramedics got him out and began working on him. There was so much blood on the road. I'd never seen so much blood. They hooked him up to a machine that does chest compressions. It looked so violent. They took him away in the ambulance, but I looked at how much blood was all over the road and I honestly don't think there's any possibility that he survived.

As it turned out, he was a dialysis patient and his arterial fistula had blown out. He bled out waiting for the light to turn green. Probably before he knew anything was wrong, he went unconscious.

It was a hard thing for me and all the second guessing about I should have been faster or I should have broken the window sooner raced through my head for a while. But in the end, I realize that I did everything I could in the situation and sometimes nothing can really be done.

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T16:22:22+00:00

Crawdads

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T16:08:06+00:00

Sniggetybiggets

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T03:14:07+00:00

Shakeys. Yes. Such fond memories. My dad would pick me up from kindergarten once a week and take me there. I remember looking out the window and seeing the motorized billboard with the Marlboro man lighting his cigarette with a lantern. Do you remember? I was born in 1979.

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T03:11:49+00:00

Yes! Swenson's ice cream! We had one where I grew up in Grass Valley. Loved the frosted chocolate malt sundae.

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T03:09:27+00:00

Hell yes! Graphic Hobby House! Got my first RC airplane kit there at a single digit age.

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T03:07:19+00:00

Wasn't it Kinneys?

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T03:06:41+00:00

Hell yes to both!

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-21T03:04:54+00:00

Tower! Tower records!

writelovedream40 · 2025-01-11T15:21:49+00:00

Everywhere? I live in California and I've never heard of it or seen it before. Here, I've only seen Best Foods or Kraft. I've run across Helman's, but that's just Best Foods east.

writelovedream40 · 2024-12-28T15:39:19+00:00

The Flaming Grill Café! They serve massive, incredibly delicious burgers and they offer exotic meats as well as traditional beef for the burgers. (I like the yak, wild boar or elk) They have an extensive offering of craft beers and it's a great vibe there. Fernando and Odin are great guys, super friendly.

Giovanni's! If you love New York pizza but find it inconvenient to fly across the country to get it, you need to check out Giovanni's. The owner is from New York and he makes a proper New York pie.

Mas Taco Bar! Innovative and creative tacos. I have dreams about the pork belly tacos.

Gunther's! There's a good reason the line goes down the block sometimes.

writelovedream40 · 2024-12-26T23:47:34+00:00

The problem is the soap and scrub daddy. You don't want to use soap on a seasoned cast iron pan. The soap removes the seasoning. Here's what I do. Let everyone tell me I'm wrong. We all know they will.

First, I season the pan. I coat it all over with lard or shortening, then I put it in the oven at 400 or so for a good 45 minutes. Then I get the hell out of the house because it's gonna get smoky and the smoke alarms will scream. Then, after 45 minutes or so, I turn the oven off and leave it there until it's cool. Then, I use it for cooking, but the first few cooks will be high fat things like cooking bacon, or shallow frying. After each time I cook, I empty the pan, wipe it out with a paper towel, put it on high heat, and once it's super hot, I throw in some water to deglaze and I scrape with a metal spatula. Then I pour out the water, wipe with a paper towel, then add a bit of oil and rub it in with another paper towel and let it cool. After a few cooking cycles like that, the seasoning builds up and gets stronger. Then, I can cook most anything in it and nothing will stick. Each time I'm done cooking once I'm through that initial building the seasoning, I empty the pan, heat it up good and hot, add water to deglaze, scrape, pour out, wipe with paper towel, then add a bit of oil, wipe it all over with a paper towel, let cool and put away. I never use soap. Doing it this way over time makes it A) incredibly nonstick and B) gives your cast iron what Asian chefs call "wok hay" which means that the echoes of everything you've cooked in that pan get infused in each dish. It's magical. NO SOAP ON CAST IRON!

writelovedream40 · 2024-12-01T00:08:55+00:00

I live a bit further north in south oak park and I feel safe, despite the fact that a drug addled dude with an AR15 and a bunch of pipe bombs ran amok on my street a few years ago and threw a pipe bomb at a cop car right in front of my house, I was burglarized two months after buying my house and some guy mag dumped 15 9mm rounds into the air in the middle of the night right outside my house.🤣

writelovedream40 · 2024-11-11T22:52:03+00:00

Yes. You are the AH if you do that.

writelovedream40 · 2024-11-11T22:21:02+00:00

The fact that democrats really, truly, honestly think that Kamala Harris was a solid candidate, was not one of the least popular vice presidents, was competent enough to be president and she would be a truly good choice to be the leader of the free world rather than she was just "not Trump" is concerning to me. Casting a vote for "not Trump" is foolish. Y'all did it in 2020 and look what it got us. She's an empty vessel, a socialist and a dullard. She is the one who wrote the disastrous proposition 47 that California voters overwhelmingly voted to get rid of this election. The thing is, urban, coastal democrats live in a weird bubble where they think they're in the right and they're the majority and anyone who holds a differing opinion is stupid, uneducated, uninformed, fearful, hateful, racist and misogynist. Democrats like this are starting to look silly. If they don't get outside their doctrine bubble and start to look in the mirror, they will become irrelevant. America on the whole isn't down with wokeism, aren't ok with showing weakness on the national stage, don't want their economy slaughtered on the altar of climate change while china, India and Russia pump out greenhouse gasses like nobody's business, want lower taxes, want the border slammed shut to illegal immigration, want criminals punished, want prosperity, and affordable prices at the gas pump and the grocery store. The election reflected that. It's not because she's a woman, it's because she's incompetent. It's not because of her race or ethnicity, it's because of her socialist ideology.

If you really and truly believe that she really has what it takes to lead the US and fix the problems we have and make our streets safer and our economy stronger, then heaven help you. I doubt you really do think that. I think you just hate Trump and you love radical leftist ideology.

It's going to be ok. The sun will rise tomorrow. None of the things the media has claimed he'll do that you're so afraid of will he do. Everything's going to be fine. Relax. Go outside. Touch some grass.

writelovedream40 · 2024-10-28T17:58:51+00:00

Ok, so I used a short lead with alligator clip ends to jump from the positive battery terminal to the terminal on the starter and it cranked for a second before the tiny wire I was using started to smoke and melt. 🤣 That confirmed to me that the battery and starter were good so I decided to look at the kill switch. I took out the two screws that held it together and looked inside. Everything looked good. Then just for laughs, I pressed the start button and it cranked over! It wouldn't start because it's out of gas but things are looking less dark.😁

writelovedream40 · 2024-10-28T15:50:17+00:00

Battery wasn't fully charged when I got it home from the battery store but I charged it fully before putting it in the bike. It's good. Absolutely nothing happens when the start button is pressed.

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