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April 21, 2015
The 2015 Oriental Boat Show drew more visitors than ever, with 1800 people entering the mini-village created along Oriental’s waterfront between Friday and Sunday April 10-12.From the bridge of one boat at the show, a view of the others, and a confirmation from the computer screen of where the show was happening.Boats were sold, boats were built, and boats and their bits were on display. This year, the Oriental Rotary added a new feature, a wooden boat exhibit, which proved to be a popular draw.
The highly varnished bow of Tom Lathrop’s Scamp one of a dozen boats in the wooden boat exhibit.This was the second year that the Rotary situated the show in Oriental (rather than its previous site, at Pecan Grove Marina) and it worked well. It was also the second year that Heber Guthrie of Carteret County crossed the river to do a two-day build-out of a Harkers Island Skiff. It was raffled off at the close of the show on Sunday.
Heber Guthrie takes a pause in the construction of a Harker Island skiff. As he did at last year’s show, he created skiff in two days. It was then raffled off.Interior of a Hunter 380 sailboat shown by Deatons.Sam Myers, Ed Yodlowski and Paul Olson of the Oriental Rotary. Rotary took over the planning and organization of the show a few years ago and has built it up with increasingly larger numbers of visitors ever year.Deb Boswell shows off the finds she got at the Boat Show’s Nautical Flea Market. Behind her, OYC, where the seminars and workshops took place.Vendors had a variety of items. In one tent, hats and bags handmade from canvas, and a step away, props and engines.Four of the Coast Guard crew from Hobucken who brought their boat to the show on Sunday.A PowerCat 54 whose name provided an invite that applied to all the boats in the water at the Oriental Boat Show. Hopp Aboard was being shown by Morehead City Yacht Basin. Yours for $649,000.[page]
Building BoatsIn addition to the boats on display, two boats were works in progress.
Heber Guthrie tends to the making of a mast for his Harkers Island skiff.A tool of the trade on the Harkers Island skiff.Heber Guthre assesses the boat after filling the spaces between the planks.The boat was raffled off by the Oriental Boat Show’s organizers, the Oriental Rotary. The boat show has become Rotary’s biggest fundraiser of the year.On Sunday afternoon, Heber Guthrie pulled a name in the raffle for the boat.Another approach to small boat building… next page.
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Under the B&B Yachts tent, a different boat and boat building style.Graham Byrnes, naval architect and boat designer with one of the boats under construction.The Boat Show seminars this year were held inside the OYC. Graham Byrnes of B&B Yachts spoke about building boats with marine ply and epoxy. In foreground, one joined piece.Boat designer and builder, Graham Byrnes who has taught a boat building course at Pamlico Community College for 30 years shows the joining of relatively thin wood that would be glued with epoxy.An appreciation of odd boats. The seminar took a short break when Graham Byrnes announced that the sailing canoes – in town from New England for a weekend of racing – were passing by the harbor.[page]
Show BoatsSome of the in-water boats on the docks.
Mike Trogdon of Deaton Yacht Sales with a Carver 356, one of the boats he was showing at the show.Boat show scene as taken in from the interior of Triton’s Catalina 22.St Bart Yachts was showing a Beneteau, and showing off the clean lines of its salon. Components were modular, allowing for a variety of layouts.Galley on the Carver Deatons was selling.Paul Welles of Triton Yachts had a Sunfish from last October’s Worlds Championships for sale. The competition took place just up the river, as the commemorative sail says, at Camps Seagull and Seafarer.For when the boat’s draft exceeds the water’s depth, e? Rita Vorleiter at the Deatons Service/Tow Boat US booth.[page]
Wooden BoatsThe Oriental Boat Show this year offered a Wooden Boat feature, putting vintage boats amid the brand new ones. The older craft made for a popular draw.
Some of the dozen or so wooden boats on display. The vintage vessels were new — as a feature — at the Oriental Boat Show this year.Curved wood and lots of varnish on this 17.5 foot Concordia Sloop made of cedar on oak.Gary Lowell was showing – and trying to sell his Concordia Sloop. Built for Buzzards Bay in 1967, he restored it two years ago.A Graham Byrnes designed and built boat.Along with one wooden boat, a 1952 Johnson 3HP motor. It drew lots of attention.A motor boat from another era.Scamp as seen from within.[page]
Fairlead on an electric wooden boat.Sam Myers, jefe of the Rotary’s Oriental Boat Show.A perennially popular feature at the Oriental Boat Show – the Nautical Flea Market.
Tom Nevison had lots for sale, including a radio controlled Laser.Block system for sale.A boat that always provides a blue sky. It was for sale at the Nautical Flea Market.One enthusiastic nautical flea market vendor was Billy Creech.The scene at the Pickers stand at the Nautical Flea Market. Among the wares, a hat to top off a Soviet military uniform.An inclinometer from, Al Diamond says, a Greek vessel.[page]
At the Oriental Dinghy Dock, an EZ Launch floating dock was both exhibit and put to practical use. It featured a system that allowed kayaks to roll up out of the water. It would get a workout Saturday afternoon.Hope Floats, AgainLate Saturday afternoon, about a dozen kayakers from the Triangle paddled up to the floating dock. They were with Hope Floats, a cancer-awareness group and were finishing up an 8-day, 200+ mile trip down the Neuse River. They’d first made Oriental their destination last year and repeated that this April.Hope Floats kayakers used the roller ramp of the floating dock..A checkered bandana to keep the sun’s rays at bay.Among the first Hope Floats kayaks to land – on the easy roller ramp of the loaned floating dock — was one that carried a lighted lantern. Here, the kayak is carried to land.Once all the kayaks and kayakers came up the dinghy dock, a group photo.Paddling for a cause…[page]
The floating dock allowed small boats such as kayaks to paddle up its roller ramp. Though positioned to, the US Coast Guard vessel seen here at Oriental Harbor Marina’s B Dock, did not avail itself of that. The Coast Guard did welcome visitors aboard for tours.The Coast Guard was giving tours of its boat. Here, a view from the bridge.Clearly stated EXIT sign on the Coast Guard’s boat.The Coast Guard Auxiliary.On the deck at the Water Street Grill. </div[page]
Harborsounds, one of a half dozen bands to perform. The folk/gospel/blues band used the opportunity to promote another event — Oriental’s Second Annual Old Front Porch Music Fest in October.Woody Fuller of Harborsounds.Ken Belangia and band were one of the half dozen groups who played in the courtyard of Water Street Grill.Posted Tuesday April 21, 2015 by Melinda Penkava