TOPIC: to the old folks among us

well,we all love our classic fiberglss boats,we love restoring them.

but even at my age(51) my body dosnt listen to me anymore,heck i have to take a half of a viagra pill just so i dont pee on my slippers in the morning.



im hoping that after surgery on my shoulder i can get back to working on at least one boat and catch up on my other projects that have been on hold.

im sure there are others of us out there like me(ok,maybe without the viagra).



im going to make a new years resolution to get all of my projects done this new year.

some of you are in the same boat as me (pun intended),i have no real area to work in the winter,so i have to wait until warmer weather,so i can work outside,between typhoons.



as our bodies get weaker our minds sometimes follow,but if we can work on our classics,we stay just a little bit younger,we feel the pride that comes with all that hard work,and in the process,we learn we can still hang in there.(pun intended again)



so in short we get alot out of our love of these beautiful classic boats,they keep us going,they make us proud to call each other friends and also family.



the younger folks coming into this hobby will learn the the easy way just how great the fiberglassic community is,because here they will find help,guidence,and most of all great friends,willing to help and guide them along the way.



so in closing, happy new year and may your family find the love for your old classic that you have for them,other wise hide them in your neighbors yard.

p.s. please forgive me for the viagra part of the post.

john gibson

John, a happy and healthier new year to you, you're just a young pup making his mark in the glass world
I'm 67, had a physical this morning with my regular php, had a cardio checkup two weeks ago with the cardiologist. As long as I tick when I walk in and tick when I walk out I consider myself in decent health.

Yesserrie, nothing like a Monday morning wake up by a doc sticking his finger where the sun don't shine. He said it's not the way he likes to start his week either

Hope your Christmas went well.

Cal

What you doing to the shoulder John? Mine sounds like BB's rolling around on a frozen waffle. When will it be. I'm having another knee replacement on the 9th. Mine has broken pieces floating around to the back of the knee. I guess I put it off too long. Good luck to us all.

Had a colonoscopy last Thurs, my gall bladder removed today.I'm 50 so I can relate. This getting old sucks,but still beats the alternative. As for the boats,I need to get a motor back on the crestliner this spring,the trailer under the aristocraft redone.I also need to get back on my 65 ford truck project. Right now,I need to get some rest.jim

All of you guys out there take care of yourselves. As I have said to John a number of times, your health is worth more than any of your projects. I'm fortunate that at 57, I'm in reasonably good condition and that lack of time, money and a heated garage factors in to my lack of project progress more. So let's all stay healthy and get things done as they allow in the new year.

Yep it sucks getting old. I'll admit I'm only 52 but some days I fell a hell of a lot older!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't get the flu shot this year and it looks like I got the flu Sunday, feel like I got run over by an oceanliner. I would have said truck but wanted to stick with our boat theme! As for projects, have to get the '67 80hp cleaned up and in it's '61 Housing then on the back on the clipper. Have to finish up the sliding compound miter cabinet. Arrange the garage so i can work with the Mahogany and get started on the Century. Also have to weld up a trailer hitch to the back of lawn tractor I got. I'm hoping I'll be able to move the clipper out of the shed and the century in with it, we'll see. If not no big deal it was only $100 and runs! Even has the 42" mulching deck. I'l post it and the miter station in the NBR section when the station is done.

John, good luck on your shoulder surgery. Your not older your just wiser!

All, as Todd said, stay healthy. As long as we're working on our projects we're happy, some day the wives will figure that out!

Bob

@ 62, I feel like Mickey Mantle when he said...

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd taken better care of myself!"

Nothing works like it used to. My BRAIN IS A LIAR. It constantly tells me I can do things and when I try, my Body REJECTS the idea. I Hurt ALL over ALL the time. But...Having said all that, I'm still not ready for the BIG...



To ALL the Fiberglassic Members Here's wishing you a very...

john, was unaware of your shoulder problem. hope you will fully recover from the surgery and get back to what you enjoy doing. i've felt like crap the last 2 days (not dialysis related) but am much better now after heaving and taking a shower. going out in the garage and take measurements of the stern where my 9 gallon fuel tank is positioned. i have a carpenter who is going to build me a tank receptacle on rollers for sliding the tank in and out when re-fueling. all have a healthy new year. ron

Sounds like we all have as many problems as our boats.......lol.I have 2 chushed disc's and had the surgery with good success, my left knee has been scraped(too many barnicles) and my rt shoulder has been hurting for 7 weeks (I cant raise my arm above my chest) and all I think about is finishing or starting a new or old project..........happy days are comming! and so is my 53rd birthday.

Well, let's see...I seem to have the flu or something just as bad, ripped all the tendons in my index finger three weeks ago and on Monday, I took the end of my finger off with a jointer...same hand. At least I still have my drop-dead good looks!

You "kids" aren't going to get any sympathy from me! I'm 64 and I work on boats 5 or 6 days a week...all day. Keep in mind that anything worth doing is worth suffering to achieve and like Groucho said, "You're only as old as the woman you feel."

vuyosevich wrote:

john, was unaware of your shoulder problem. hope you will fully recover from the surgery and get back to what you enjoy doing. i've felt like crap the last 2 days (not dialysis related) but am much better now after heaving and taking a shower. going out in the garage and take measurements of the stern where my 9 gallon fuel tank is positioned. i have a carpenter who is going to build me a tank receptacle on rollers for sliding the tank in and out when re-fueling. all have a healthy new year. ron

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btw i'll be 67 this month....

Gees, at 73 I feel like father time! I'm really doing pretty well. I've put my Dorsett undercover for the winter and just purchased a '79 GMC Caballero to work on in the meantime. It's a beauty, and I need professonal help with the engine...same with the Dorsett, but I love working on the rest of it!! Cheer up...there is life after the 60's!!

At only 52, I resemble many of the remarks made here..

Good people and good comments! May you all feel good (or better) and be able to work on your projects in 2013!

yep,i knew there were alot of us out there,lol,4 heart attacks ,knee surgery etc.now my shoulders are bad,going in for surgery on my right one on the 24th for arthitus and calsium buildup,they are going in from 4 directions and if i need the tendons or rotator cuff done he will do it then.
after that i will be good as in my 20's lol,i wish.

but the reason i posted this post was to wish you all a happy new year and may we get better so we can get back to boat stuff,
besides i wanted to quote larry the cable guy about the viagra joke,lol,i have been wanting to use that for awhile,loljohn

At 55 I am towards the middle of this pack, but can appreciate both sides. I hope you all have a good year and good luck with all of your surgeries, ect. Even though I own a woody ( no pun intended) I read with interest all of the rebuilds ect. that you all do. I have a '63 Merc 850 so I read with interest the Mercury page. It is good to see the interest from some of the " younguns" to our hobby and/or addictions. If not for them, these beauties would all disappear.
By the way John, how do you cut those "little blue pills" in half without crushing them? My shoes are getting pretty stained and I could use the help!! LOL.
Bill
P.S. This picture was taken on our last ride for the year on the Mississippi in October just South of LaCrosse, Wi.
By the way, Love the "Cat Scan".

Bill, I don't think there is a woodie joke out there that us folks haven't heard.
Don't need the blue pill if you have a woodie.
Wait until Waterwings starts working on his Century, he'll be joining the club.
Sounds like you're on the opposite side of the state due west from me, been to LaCross many times.

I have figured out why we hurt when we get older. When we were young 12, 13, 16 etc. When the old guys said " There is a storm brewing, I can feel it in my bones" Or " The floor is getting further away every day, hard to kneel" Or "they sure are printing these papers smaller these days". And we just thought or said to them "Man, your a bunch of whiners, weenies" Well, this is gods way to make us understand. What goes around, comes around.

Just remember wood may bend a little but Fiberglas comes back into shape and lets not start comparing Johnson's again. Last time I was in the hospital and old friend of mine who went to nurse school after we both worked at Eljer was my nurse. This guy is about 6 foot and 180 lbs. he walked into the room and I said that I wanted a a young good looking voluptuous nurse and look what I got. We had a good laugh and when he got his break we talked for a while. We had been friends since about 1990.

"By the way John, how do you cut those "little blue pills" in half without crushing them? My shoes are getting pretty stained and I could use the help!! LOL"

bill i wish i knew...i took a whole one yesterday and got 3 inches taller.,john

I’m 72 and still alive and kicking!!

I can’t fish anymore or get in or out of a boat,waek knees,just toooo wooooobly!

1. Started off with a heart attack and 5-way by-pass.
2. Carotid artery surgery on both sides of my neck.
3. Six stints in my heart.
4. One stint in my right leg.
5. “Angioplasty, heart balloon surgery”
6. Nineteen “cardiac catheterization, heart dye”. Fifteen on right side and four on the left.
7. Two massive hematomas after heart cauterization.
8. Two strokes.
9. Cataracts both eyes.
10.Bad back.
11.Two divorcees!!

I know what you mean guys at the ripe old age of 27 I just cant do the things I once did

I had my cataracts out at the tender age of 45 or even earlier. I had heart problems but it was all rhythm related. One knee replaced, another next Wednesday. Diverticulitis last year. I had pancreatitus in the past. Kidney's leak protein major back problems with disc and arthritis. And I feel old.

Ah Bill and Cal, if you look at my Avatar, technically I have half a woodie!

Bob

Wow !!

What have I gotten myself into 38 years young

I'm hear to soak in all this great wealth of knowledge and do my part to keep the Glassics alive!!

Happy New Year

Travis

Still lookin' for the twins!

John-Gibson & ALL,

MY condolences to all you "old guys"! - I get up feeling fairly decent most mornings, despite my "zippers" & assorted "sewed up holes", that I aquired in 28years & during tours OCONUS in the Army.
(IF I could get "duckie" UP & out of her chair & walking again, I'd pleased clear down to the ground - fyi, she was playing tennis 2 hours before that !@#$%^! IDIOT SAWBONES paralyzed her, doing something that he wasn't supposed to do.)

BTW, we are both 66YY = duckie gets to be "the younger woman" for 46 DAYS each year, between our birthdays.

BEST WISHES to ALL, duckie & satx

just found out that i'm gunna be 66...not 67..whoop whoop

Ron,

That's a sure sign of aging; not remembering how old you are. I'm 59 going on 25...

Several years ago I had an " old guy " ( probably in his 80's ) tell me gettin' old ain't for sissies, but is still better than the alternative. I guess we can all relate to that, at different levels. Also, they say the mind is the second thing to go, and I can't remember what the first one was.
Bill

What's age got to do with anything? I don't remember feeling any different 60 years ago than I do now (76). Just goes to prove that memory loss has it's compensations.

satx78247 wrote:

John-Gibson & ALL,

MY condolences to all you "old guys"! - I get up feeling fairly decent most mornings, despite my "zippers" & assorted "sewed up holes", that I aquired in 28years & during tours OCONUS in the Army.
(IF I could get "duckie" UP & out of her chair & walking again, I'd pleased clear down to the ground - fyi, she was playing tennis 2 hours before that !@#$%^! IDIOT SAWBONES paralyzed her, doing something that he wasn't supposed to do.)

BTW, we are both 66YY = duckie gets to be "the younger woman" for 46 DAYS each year, between our birthdays.

BEST WISHES to ALL, duckie & satx

Thank you for your Service and Good Wishes. I was lucky, served between wars & wasn't called up.
MS got my Wife of 46 years. Different cause same effect. If "Duckie" can get around in a scooter or wheelchair there is still a world of things that you Both can enjoy.

Just turned 71, and am rebuilding a house and farm in Alabama to live in and prepping our house in Florida to sell. Have had to learn that I can't do EVERTTING anymore and am learning to farm things out. Slimming down to one boat and slowly selling my outboard collection (making good progress there). Will get my yacht upholstery guy to finish the Seafair cabin next week!
Tes, John, we get slower as we get older, but out boats don't!
Have a great healthy 2013!

Just turned 71, and am rebuilding a house and farm in Alabama to live in and prepping our house in Florida to sell. Have had to learn that I can't do EVERTTING anymore and am learning to farm things out. Slimming down to one boat and slowly selling my outboard collection (making good progress there). Will get my yacht upholstery guy to finish the Seafair cabin next week!
Tes, John, we get slower as we get older, but out boats don't!
Have a great healthy 2013!

yesterday my 61 year old uncle earl had a major heart attack,they call it a "tombstone maker",this happened almost 15 years to the day that my other uncle(earls brother)george died from congestive heart failure,earl was going to go fishing that day but luckily he didnt and called 911.
his main artery was blocked 100% and was working at only 10%,they put in 2 stents and did angioplasty,he seems to being good now,
this spring ed and i will have to get him out in the boat.

What a depressing thread,sounds like a bunch of old ladies comparing notes.Lighten up guys.

My Dad, age 95. We needed some help after a fall. Brought him to nearby nursing home. After a couple of days here he is flirting with Nurses. We took him back out last week. He is back in his apartment. "Your only as old as the girl that you feel" Graucho Marx?

I'll be 50 in several weeks. I decided that my shoulders and knees were aching because I wasn't doing enough down hill skiing. So I started ski "therapy". It doesn't seem to be fixing the joint pain, but I do feel young and alive again. However, on a weird side note, in an attempt to meet women, I tried yoga, which does seem to help my knees. The yoga, that is, it did not help my love life any though.

Something about playing Santa can make you feel younger too. Remember Give from the heart. This is important even more when you have not much to give. The young lady on the right could not get her daughters pic with Santa until here. Loud Ho Ho Ho's scared her. She was happy.

I guess it is just me, but I consider 50 early middle age. At 89 my grandfather was the oldest member and lead trombone player in the Minnesota over 60 band. My Grandma lived to 99. Until his death last year, my father, at 87, was convinced he was going to get back up on water skis "next summer". My other Grandfather reported to work daily until he died at 80 years old. My mom at 86 shows no signs of changing her life style, and is in fact getting back into the swing of things now after getting used to the loss of my dad. It's just a family thing I guess. We keep going 3/4 throttle ahead, cursing at the no wake zone, until we can't.

The other day some punk tried to offer me a senior discount. It seems that looks can not kill. For his sake, good thing I'm not superman!

some good genes there.....ron

by the way....happy birthday ron!!