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Joe-boat,
Owned and operated by
Mr. Philip Aucoin, Napoleanville, La.
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Like I say we are in that process at the moment. It is going to take a while, because I'm tring to
document, by taking pictures and write some of the stuff down. I'm asking some these old timers
around here, how they use to put, the bottom wasn't plywood back in those days it was solid
cypress, and cypress, once it stays out of the water it drys up and cracks but when you soak it
back in the water it is going to leak for a certain time and then it starts to swell and it seals these
gaps up. I'm asking some of these old timers right now, how did they put these boards on the
bottoms of the boats. Cause the boat that I have, I have to re-bottom it. That is the type of stuff
I don't know a lot about, but I am inquisitive as hell about it. We need to take advantage of it
while these old timers are still around.
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Lockwood Ash Motor |
Once you cut them, what the old timers are telling me around
here is that the rule-of-thumb is: 1 inch wide and you leave it dry for 1 year, 2 inches for 2 years
but most of the people say leave it dry anywhere from 9 months to a year it's going to be dry
enough. We got so much humidity down here it will never completely dry out. Then you got the
sinker lumber does not make the best sides for a boat, so I told with these old timers, I don't know
much about cypress but I'm trying to learn all the time. But they claim you can use it for size but,
being that it was a sinker type material it's going to want to crack on you big time. So it was
better if use the "choctaw" which was the floating type cypress. But nowadays you don't have
any, and if you do have any it is very, very rare. You can locate a few sinkers and make the best
of what you have.
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