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Sande Ace Rendezvous 2011


The Twanoh State Park parking lot is a great place to inspect these old boats and motors without standing in the water!  Click here for video from the Rendezvous.

The Aces of Bob, Tom, Roy and Ned lined up ready to launch,


Roy shows the black prop nut on his Mark 58A.


Roy at the dock in his Sande Ace getting ready for his maiden cruise.  Does the boat look familiar?  It was the first one that Bob restored!  And the motor?  It was Ned's that Ed found for him in Montana.  All this shows what friendships can do within the Sande Ace fraternity!


Ned at the dock.


Bob at the dock.


Tom and Susanne at the dock.


Earl Sande at the helm of Bob's Sande Ace.


Ed shows off his Northland "banana" water ski complete with a buck deer logo on it.
Ed and his three sisters shared the $16 cost for it in 1960.  $4 each?  Ouch!
     





Wayne Matthews brought his beautiful Sande cedar strip boat with its 1954 10-HP Johnson.  He got an early start down the Canal with George and John but, for reasons shown below, he beat us all to the Waali place.  






These old Cloud White Mercs are very dependable considering they are 50 or more years old.  None has failed to start in the first six years of the Rendezvous but there was a problem this year.
Ned launched and started but his motor ran rough.  Then it wouldn't restart.  Each one of us took turns at pulling the rope but no luck.



Bob has worked on the magnetos of these motors so he took Ned's apart to clean the points.  Still, no luck.




Earl Sande thought the problem would turn to be a short in the coil.  That was exactly the case.

Earl gives his well-educated guess.

So, Ned got a ride with Roy and the four Aces zipped around the Canal.  Actually, these two guys did the same thing as teenagers.  They again enjoyed Hood Canal together in a Sande Ace.  Next year, maybe one of them will put on a Wally Burr ski and get pulled behind an Ace!

Roy and Ned come ashore.