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Hello Everyone,
My name is Gabe Williamson from Soldotna Alaska. I have lived up here my whole life and been on the water in some capacity my whole life as well.
I was brought up commercial drift gillnet fishing, than moved on to the merchant marines for 4 years where i worked on trans atlantic car car carrier, than a naval ship in the far east, and finished off with an inter island hawaiian cruise ship.
Over the last decade i came back to my stomping grounds of Cook Inlet, where i am now the captain on a 165' offshore supply vessel working drilling support for the offshore rigs. infact a couple of our boats reside in lake union during the winter. www.omsi-ak.com
The story on how i'm getting back into small boats.
This summer i did a weekend camping trip on my buddies 24' aluminum cabin cruiser around Kachemak Bay and could not get enough of it! It was at that point i knew i had to get a boat going for myself.
My old man, has had this older boat for probably 20 years or better just collecting dirt and moss as many classics sadly do. Well, I took it upon myself to jack it up out of the dirt, get it on a trailer to where i could move it out of the vacant lot to my moms where i can get it on a real trailer, and at least clean it out and figure out what its gonna take to do a resto mod.
Dad has wanted to do something with this boat for quite some time but as we all know life happens. He swore to me it was an early 60's Bell boy and came from Seward, Alaska.
The google search results determined that was a lie.
With the help of a pressure washer, 9'' buffer, Kelly here on the board and google we now know that I have a '58 Skagit Express 20'.
That pretty much brings us to today.
Additionally, my Dad and i have an 17' Reinell runabout, and he just acquired a 24'-26' Glassply cabin cruiser which i have yet to figure out what the year and model are on.
I look forward to talking and gaining knowledge from you folks.
Thanks!
My name is Gabe Williamson from Soldotna Alaska. I have lived up here my whole life and been on the water in some capacity my whole life as well.
I was brought up commercial drift gillnet fishing, than moved on to the merchant marines for 4 years where i worked on trans atlantic car car carrier, than a naval ship in the far east, and finished off with an inter island hawaiian cruise ship.
Over the last decade i came back to my stomping grounds of Cook Inlet, where i am now the captain on a 165' offshore supply vessel working drilling support for the offshore rigs. infact a couple of our boats reside in lake union during the winter. www.omsi-ak.com
The story on how i'm getting back into small boats.
This summer i did a weekend camping trip on my buddies 24' aluminum cabin cruiser around Kachemak Bay and could not get enough of it! It was at that point i knew i had to get a boat going for myself.
My old man, has had this older boat for probably 20 years or better just collecting dirt and moss as many classics sadly do. Well, I took it upon myself to jack it up out of the dirt, get it on a trailer to where i could move it out of the vacant lot to my moms where i can get it on a real trailer, and at least clean it out and figure out what its gonna take to do a resto mod.
Dad has wanted to do something with this boat for quite some time but as we all know life happens. He swore to me it was an early 60's Bell boy and came from Seward, Alaska.
The google search results determined that was a lie.
With the help of a pressure washer, 9'' buffer, Kelly here on the board and google we now know that I have a '58 Skagit Express 20'.
That pretty much brings us to today.
Additionally, my Dad and i have an 17' Reinell runabout, and he just acquired a 24'-26' Glassply cabin cruiser which i have yet to figure out what the year and model are on.
I look forward to talking and gaining knowledge from you folks.
Thanks!
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