| Looking back at that old Jon boat my dad built 27 | | | | boat production should be a smooth ride for my |
| years ago just takes me back to being a little kid. | | | | son and I. With the way technology was growing |
| He didn't have any Jon boat plans, he just spent | | | | these days I knew that there had to be |
| hours sketching and reworking his own cocncept | | | | someway the computer could help us. |
| of how was going to construct it. A whole year | | | | After much research I found the right program |
| of making mistakes and learning from them is | | | | that did just what we needed to make building |
| what it took for him tofinally complete his | | | | our Jon boat simple. It took me a bit to get used |
| masterpiece. In the end, it provided me with a | | | | to the interface but within a fraction of the time |
| childhood of great memories of being out on the | | | | it took my dad to design the boat we had a full in |
| lake fishing all day with dear old dad. | | | | depth Jon boat blueprint that we designed our |
| Now I'm an adult with a little boy of my own. My | | | | selves. With that pain out of the way it was time |
| son and I love fishing more than anything and it | | | | for the best part, production! |
| really has brought us close over the 8 years of | | | | Over the next several months my son and I |
| his existence. It feels just like the good times I | | | | spent every weekend together spending hours in |
| used to spend hanging with my dad. Unfortunately | | | | the garage cranking out our new dream boat. I |
| my dad's Jon boat left us quite some time ago, | | | | wasn't about to let my little buddy operate any |
| so we've come accustomed to just sitting on the | | | | power tools but aside from that he was great |
| side of the lake and casting out our lines. One | | | | help and kept the dream alive. He was so excited |
| evening after leaving the dock with only a few | | | | and would tell everyone he encountered how he |
| bites and no catch to show for our effort. I said | | | | and his daddy were building a boat together and |
| to my son:"How would you feel if we had a boat | | | | all the fish he planned to catch. This in turn kept |
| of our own?" Instantly a huge smile spreading | | | | me excited, I just couldn't stop imagining the two |
| across his face he said:" Really Pops! We can get | | | | of us sitting in the middle of the lake sipping on |
| a boat!" I said:"You betcha son but there is only | | | | orange soda just reeling in the fishies. |
| one catch, you have to help me build it." From | | | | Finally after months of hard work we had finished |
| that moment on began the father son project of | | | | our sweet little boat. We have been out on the |
| a lifetime. | | | | lake just about every weekend ever since. There |
| I recalled what a difficult time my father had | | | | is even enough room on the boat for mommy to |
| designing the boat. It took him countless tries of | | | | come along too. It's really nice when we can get |
| reworking his dimensions and getting advice from | | | | the whole family out on the water. It means so |
| a friend who was a local boat builder before he | | | | much to me to be able to do for my son what |
| finally got things right. I couldn't even tell you how | | | | my father was able to do for me as a child. It |
| much material was wasted in the first 6 months | | | | has meant so much to me and brought me an |
| of production. I knew that I wanted to avoid the | | | | endless supply of joy. |
| hassles my father went through. I decided the | | | | |