My new boat stereo works flawlessly, and the dashboard job looks beautiful, there’s no better word to describe it. The Whacker is once again the most comfortable and classy fishing scow on the water. The two big jobs (installing the new Suzuki motor, and fabricating a new dashboard) are finished, and both added a tenfold [...]

So, change of plans, On account of the fact that it’s going to storm all weekend and the Whacker still isn’t fully put back together, I’m staying home. The new dashboard is now mounted (and looks fuckin’ gorgeous if I do say so myself), and the speaker brackets are installed. I had the neighbourhood shaking [...]

On a scale of one to ten points, I’d give Victoria Day Weekend 2010 a seven. First, the negatives. There was an absolute fire ban in effect for all districts north of the French River. Right there, that’s an immediate minus two points. No campfire means no long yarns, no mutual recapping of the day, [...]