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OT Garwood? stamps

I picked up a sheet of stamps sowing wooden speedboats for the pre WWII era (41cent) at he PO. Look nice, but I wll probably use them when I run short, anyhow. There are four views, repeated twice for a total of 12.

You love them or you don't - I do.

(My uncle used to recreate antique furnature, duplicating missing pieces from someone who had the remaining items. In other words, he would supply the furth chair. He would find the same time wood of that vintage, analize the glue and make it and so on. It might take a year. He never had to advertize and could sniff out the counterfiter-seekers. It nuight take a year to get the item made, but people would wait. There are still some aroud like him, we found out after our IM2002 robbery.

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Karl Haas
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Gar Wood used to the AJ Foyt of boat racing, built his own boats, drove them to victory, etc.

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zoombot

What is amazing to me about the really fast boats in the small propeller they have. KH

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Karl Haas

Many folks talk about hull design, but propeller design is almost a black art. Gotta have max torque without cavitation.

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zoombot

I try to use new and unique stamps on my newsletters each month. Although not a boat person, I too thought those stamps were beautiful. I have used them a couple of time for our newsletter. Joe Roberts

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itraseecab

back in the 60s/70s, when they still had powerboat races on the river in Detroit, the Coast Guard station had a magnificent Garwood: the sucker had to be 30 feet long with room for 4....the rest beautifully planked engine covers for 2 V12s.....can't remember if they were Packards or Scripps. wonder where it is now.......wonder how much gas it would take to run!!!!!

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Itsfrom Click

"the Coast Guard station had a magnificent Garwood:"

One GarWood owner told me that the Detroit River was a bigger impetus to the development of speed boats than all of racing put together. There's not a beach from Monroe to Lorain that doesn't make a claim to having been a prime landing spot in the 20's.

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comatus

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