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AboutLast October 2017, a lady called from the Baltimore Museum of Industry and explained that they were looking for a presentable old car that they could use for a new exhibit. Is there any chance [...] -
AboutThis is the place where our wonderful, happy past comes alive again. You can see old time cars and boats ready to use and enjoy or ones that need your attention to return to use. [...] -
AboutPDF version, click here: Prop Talk Article 2007 Howard Percival Johnson Jr. stood at the end of his stunningly well-organized workbench holding a Chock Full of Nuts coffee can labeled “knobs.” Knobs of every description [...] -
AboutOctober 2014 (click to download PDF) June 2014 (click to download PDF) March 2014 (click to download PDF) • President’s Message: Mt Dora Show Coming Up • Van Thiel Restoration • Evolution of the Runabout • Sea [...] -
AboutIt all started when a few of our members, who were going to buy a Hickman Sea Sled, decided to find their way through the back roads of Pennsylvania without using the interstate. The trip [...]
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Whirlwind Boat CenterI saw this on Facebook, later more pictures and a description were offered but I regret that failed to record it. It is a sailboat, with outstanding woodwork and exceptional finishes, decorative curves everywhere, handles [...] -
Whirlwind Boat CenterHere is Howard and Cheryl zooming along in their `56 Whirlwind Sea King 14′, at the Reedville Fisherman’s Museum Show, just after the boat parade, September 12, 2010. […]
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Whirlwind Boat CenterIn the summer of 2014, we bought a 1959 Whirlwind from its original owner, here in North Carolina. We had an interest in boats but no experience in wooden boat restoration. We had no awareness [...] -
Whirlwind Boat CenterAbout two years ago, Tammy and I rescued a dusty, beat-up, motor-less, nearly 60-year old mahogany motorboat from an old farmer’s tobacco barn here in North Carolina. We set out to restore it to as [...] -
Whirlwind Boat CenterIt is November of 1945 and the war is over. The United States Navy decides it no longer wants the molded plywood glider airplanes, being made on the assembly line at Allied Aviation, in Dundalk, [...]
