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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, June 4, 2023

C is for Canoes - 22 - Others, Unknown

Quickie tonight (this morning!), it's funny how there are rhythms in randomness, I often lose or drop my posting rate as a new month starts, and it's nothing deliberate; purely real-life intervening, but as phenomena, these events do seem to come around regularly!

A couple of shots I took at the end of the domestic photo-shoot, using a couple of my buckshee paddlers (20% of the vintage Cherilea items acquired!) and showing one of my unknown boats, it seems to be two halves, but no sign of glue so possibly friction welded and again, like many of the others; a bit too smooth, but would benefit from a painting, by someone who knew what they were doing! Timpo load fits nicely! Unmarked, but Hong Kong - I think, and a polystyrene or hard propylene?
 
I also have this which is quite a big beast as you can see from the two Crescent Natives. It's  hard polystyrene as well, and ribbed a bit like the Thomas/Poplar ones, but with wider gaps between the ridges, also like them, it is sufficiently rounded and keeled to lean to one side on a flat surface, and would certainly displace enough water to float. Any ideas on either of them? Is this one a roof-load from a dime-store car?

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