A Salmon Beach rowboat comes home

I hardly know where to start. My friend Scott (second from the left) and I have been working on the restoration of a 14 ft. Whitehall for the last two years. Our conversations, while either working or admiring our work, always seemed to come around to getting a hold of a set of plans for an original Foss rental rowboat. The shop that we are working in sits literaly a stone's throw from the location of the old Salmon Beach Boathouse where these fine wooden rowboats were rented to the public. Sadly, the boat house was torn down decades ago and the rental fleet scattered to who knows where years before that. So, imagine our surprise and excitement when a neighbor called me on a Thursday night and told me that they had found what appeared to be an original rowboat from that long lost fleet. Well, the picture tells the story. Not even 48 hours later we are bringing our next project "home", past Chloe the mermaid, and what I am sure will turn out to be years of, not only "messing about with boats", but creating some new history and great memories for the new generations of Salmon Beachers.