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How Did I Get Here?
Some folks are just born with the love of boats and water. I am one of those guys. I grew up canoeing and kayaking the waters of Arkansas, and what fine waters she has. The Buffalo, Caddo, Cossatot, Little Missouri, White, Spring, Hurricane, Quachita, and Saline Rivers. My Dad gave me a Sunfish sailboat while I was in High School. I learned to sail on a pond on campus and then off to Degray Lake, where I was upended in a thunderstorm. Many years later my buddy, Danny Sabo, came to me with the idea of building a McKenzie River Driftboat. We eventually built three Driftboats out of white oak planks and mahogany plywood. The Drifters found their way to the Little Red River, the White River, Gulf Coast Barrier Islandsoff the coast of Mississippi,and then to Yellowstone Lake. A neighbor came to me about going in on a 1973 Catalina 22. We cleaned it up and slipped it at Jolly Rogers Marina on Lake Maumelle near Little Rock, Ar. And now, a dream of fixing up a classic Hallberg Rassy and sailing bigger waters. These pages chronicle the restoration of a 1974 HR Rasmus 35, hull number 337.
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