This is the news we reported in 2002:
September 3, 2002 Well so much for
summer. The three H's made it a great boating season this year. Can
you believe haul out is here? The forms went out a week before Labor Day
and well over half of them are back in already! This update is going to be
pretty brief... Everyone here is well and very busy, Rickie is back at
college in South Carolina, we have already begun winterizing boats (can you
believe the first one was on August 26th), Bill and Mike Jr. both have new toys
and Jesse is back at high school. Check out these cool shots I took the other
night (8/28/02) while waiting for Mike and Jr. to tow in a boat that had sunk.
June 16, 2002 Another launch has come and gone - summer is just a few days
away. We have been extremely busy this spring. There have been too
many twelve plus hour days. Mike has finally taken his first day off today
since he got back from the ABC Nationals in Billings Montana on April 18th.
From everyone at the shop and myself thank you to one of our very special
and generous customers for getting Mike away today. Mike was the recipient
of four passes to the Championship playoffs of the USGA at Bethpage today.
We all appreciate the hours Mike puts in but if you don't get him out of town he
just won't take a whole day off, and that makes for a -hmmm- cranky Mike.
Well lets see, I'm sorry I haven't had the chance to update the news page for a
while. Lots of things have happened since April 5th. I'll start with
the recent stuff and work back. This past week we did two complete engine
replacement jobs, two sterndrive replacements, a gimble ring and bell housing
replacement job, rebuilt a few toilets, installed a battery charger, rebuilt a
couple carbs, installed several new batteries, installed a new fuel pump,
repacked several inboard shafts, waxed a couple boats, commissioned five or six
boats, a few tune ups, replaced a couple shift cables at the drive and a
whole bunch of other little stuff. The week before that was pretty similar
- a couple of gimble ring jobs, a holding tank system, striping, epoxy and
painting a boat, replacing a stator on a generator, installing a new flywheel
and starter in an inboard boat, another sterndrive lower replacement, sanding
and finishing all the teak on a boat, a valve job, several tune ups, several
battery replacements, more boats commissioned, more wax jobs, repaired a couple
of anchor windless and too many other things to list. The weeks before
these past two read pretty much the same. The only difference is in the
amount of boats we are commissioning now verses earlier this spring.
Following are a bunch of pictures from the work we did this spring - they are
not in any particular order.
I will add more pictures as I sort them out. The shaft log replacement in
the Albin - the one we wrote the repair manual on and fabricated the tools for -
has been completed. Indian
Pipes is chartering again. We have also removed the swim
platform off of the red and white Highliner
boat. They use some real high tech equipment - underwater cameras ect...,
and the cables were getting hung up on the lip of the platform.
This has been a rainy spring. It seems like it rains every day. But
it sure beats the drought we were headed into. The worst thing is that
when it does stop raining the wind seems to just wail through here. We
have had several wind storms with gusts above 45mph this spring. As for
Mike and bowling in Billings Montana - he did really well. I will post his
standing and a couple of pictures as soon as the tournament final scores are
posted (the tournament runs from February through June).
April 5, 2002 Can you believe it's snowing tonight? 
The lake never froze over this winter. The current lake temp is 38
degrees. It is right at the point where it could ice over - if the air
temps cooperate. Which by the weather recently could happen. Boats
have been moving in and out of the shop at a quick pace all winter. It
seems like the winters are getting shorter and shorter. This spring we
have been visited by a pair of eagles. One of them, complete with white
head and tail, has been making a frequent rest stop out of the Happy Family
Islands. With things gearing up and more and more customer traffic in the
boat yard they haven't been around for days.
March 19, 2002
March has been a roller coaster month. The weather here in March can be a
sunny fifty degree day to freezing rain and snow with temps in the teens.
We have had our share of wind storms this month. We are sad to report that
during one of those wind storms (March 10th) our friends at Hall's Boat
Corporation had a tree come down, ripping out power lines which caused a major
fire. The good news is that everyone is ok, the bad news is that nineteen
boats, the service shop, part of the family home and records from the 1920's
till present were lost. We have spent some time helping them get boats out
of the partially damaged boat house and in the water and will help them with
anything else they might need. Visit Hall's
Boat. We send our best to the Nash family and want everyone to know
that they are still in business, they just have hit a temporary snag.
I took this picture on January 29, 2002 at 9:34am while getting some other shots
of the lake.
The fire and after: 
Another victim of the March 9+10th wind storm was our neighbors in the bay -
Lake George Boat Company. The wind picked up the roof on the boat house
and dropped it a couple of feet away. I don't believe that any boats were
damaged.
Here are some pictures of this months projects:
the new platform 
new exhaust tube
installing all new engine hoses
the new stripes
removing the shaft insert in Indian Pipes 
Sterndrive work, glass work, teak work, striping and buffing - A MAKE
OVER...
The Marina in March...
January 25, 2002 - Michael Jr. and Bill
have just returned from Kohler Generator School. Good news - both earned
their certification. Winter repair projects continue to hum along.
Along with the regular work Michael and Rickie have been busy cleaning out the
parts rooms, getting things reorganized and are in the process of building some
new cabinets for the shop. Jesse and I have been doing some work out in
the boat yard. Mother nature continues to bless us with warm weather (20's to
40+- degrees). We all know we will be paying for this sooner or later.
There still isn't any ice on the lake to speak of, and barely any snow.
Don't worry - it will come. Hopefully long before spring launch.
Work on the new cabinets.
This boat is getting new stripes.
Believe it or not this was an air pocket the size of a nickel.
Bill works on removing the stripe on the transom.
This boat will be getting a new swim platform.
Pictures of Lake George from Beach Road today (1/25/2002)
at 4:30pm. No ice, no snow. Will the Polar Bear Club be at the nice
sandy beach this weekend?
January 2002 - Another new year has arrived! Happy New Year! Over
Christmas week we repainted the shop floors. The shop is full of boats and
we are as busy as ever. We have been working in the yard also. Not
much to report on - the Lake isn't frozen over yet, after the 40 degree weather
today I don't think the bay will have its ice coat for long either.
We also have some just for fun pictures.
For news from the previous years click on the following years: 2001 2000