Alaskan Holiday

Circa 1960. Sent by a friend of mine who was a fisherman in Sitka back then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dD...ehSDfXw81PRaBfrLvUetd3OGgSGFIeF67mUEvQSM

Thanks for the link Ken. I really enjoyed that. We spend a lot of time in the Prince William Sound and I really enjoyed the old cannery shots. My son has got quite a collection of antique trolling spoons. We each have forty foot boats. He’s crazy over old wooden boats but his is steel. He might be smarter than he looks!

I hear ya Steve. Something nice and warm about a wooden boat. But I'll bet your son does less maintenance on that steel hull than on a wood one

The "newer" wooden boats are quite a bit nicer than the old dugout canoes that W17 invented. After he got tired of paddling around on plain logs...

Pete

They weren't exactly plain....but they weren't planed either

Great old footage. Thanks for that. I always say I’ll own another wood boat when there are 13 months in the year. Hard to get insurance for them anymore.

Not sayin you’re long in the tooth Pete, but didn’t you come over on the Mayfllower?

Nice video.

Thats a great video, thank you!

Only to find out that W17 was already here....

Always way ahead of ya !!

What's that old saying ?


The view never changes unless you're the lead dog !!

And it's a good thing Pete got here when he did. Ken was getting bored. After teaching the indians a few tricks, such as how to make buckskin, and grow corn, helping them master long-distance communication using smoke signals, and the art of flint knapping, he was ready for some news of the Old World.

Pete was already into napping when he got here

And darned good at it.....

pb

I'm just glad one of them had invented traps, women, and whiskey before I got here.

Jack

The testing was arduous !!

Well, I'm glad White kept at it, rather than giving up after Lucy.

And very difficult too.....

Nice video.Thanks for sharing.