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</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=2><P>Stony Brook  &quot;</FONT><B><FONT SIZE=4 COLOR="#ffff00">in the old days</B></FONT><FONT SIZE=3>&quot;</P>

Soapbox boat
Small flat boats with small outboard motors.
This was in the early 60’s
Dave Smith had one with a 10 horsepower motor on it. There was no cover on the faceplate. 
He let me use it one day. 
That was a fun day but I had one incident that was not so much fun.
 I was in front of the dock at Stony Brook heading out of the harbor.
 I was behind a big cruiser going slow and making big waves. I tried to pass it.
 I went over the first wave and dived down under the next.
 That filled the boat with water. 
Water also went in the open faceplate and shut down the motor.
 I was now drifting back in with the cockpit full of water.
 It was a good thing there was lots of Styrofoam flotation in it. 
I tried starting the motor. It took about 20 pulls but finally started. 
I then opened it up but it could not plane off with all the water in it. 
I opened the bailing cock and rode for about five minutes until I got enough water out that it could plane off.
Then everything was fine again.
Here is bill’s diagram of what they looked like. I need a picture of one.

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 <BR>Bill found something close but not quite it..
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Wow!!! Soapboxes did exist!  Who is that on it? That is a very big outboard for that! Your 10 hp went quite fast enough. What is the fancy orange and white thing on the front?
Dave Smith got some old pictures. You see, I am not crazy.

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I went to my launch place on Nag’s Head Road at about 9:00 this morning. Due to the pain of Shingles I have not been kayaking in 5 ½ weeks now.<BR>
There were lots of big black clouds moving in so I put my little Otter in the Waterway and put on my spray skirt. It started to rain hard. There were no other boats around. It was nice paddling around watching the rain drops bounce up from the water’s surface. I paddled up a little creek into the marsh and the rain began to subside. I removed my life jacket to relieve some of the pain. That was a big improvement. I paddled back to the Waterway and headed west.<BR>  At that point a rainbow appeared over the waterway to the west. It went from Holden Beach over the waterway to the mainland. It was brightest over Holden Beach. It was beautiful. I stopped paddling and just watched. A second rainbow tried to form above the first but did not get very bright. A sailboat called “Whisper” from Annapolis came up behind me from the East. I watched it pass and slowly shrink in the distance under the rainbow. There were several Great Blue herons in the area also. Everything was so peaceful and wonderful with the birds, the rainbow and the reflection of blue sky and clouds in the Waterway.<BR>
Then the rainbow began to fade away and the motorboats came out so I had to put my life jacket back on and head for home. I wish I had a camera with me!<BR>
Jim Crownover
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