GabOats.com sells various types of custom, lightweight boat kits

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Yarmouth , ME 04096

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Geodesic AiroLITE Boats - ultra lightweight SOF canoes and boats; plans, projects and tutorials

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My first memory of my Grandfather was staged on his shoulders. He used to pick me up and carry me around the kitchen playing "Nuttin' in there." This game was a quest to find some home-baked goodie after opening almost every cabinet in the kitchen. We'd start by walking up to a cabinet, which either one of us opened to look inside. It would be full of dishes, or canned food to which he'd say "nuttin' in theya!" Eventually we'd make our way to the one with the goods and he'd confirm that there was "somethin' in there!" That was truly my favorite game to play and he never got tired of carrying me around to find a treat.

Beep's inventiveness really knew no bounds. He seemed to have a custom jig rigged up to make every facet of his daily life less tedious. His shop was like a land of wonders to a young boy like myself. There were rows of jars screwed to long rotating posts with sorted screws, nails, nuts & bolts over head. There were tools of of every shape attached to benches on all sides of his shop. There were rollers and conveyers feeding huge spools of wire into a massive automatic welding machine. Lights that only he knew how to turn on, homemade stoves burning junk mail and scrap wood and of particular intrigue to me, a one-legged stool, which I loved to teeter on while I watched him work. If you were wondering, "Beep" was the name given to my grandfather by my older brother, Tim. When Tim was very young he said "Bee-pah" instead of "grandpa" - the name "Beep" has stuck ever since!

Throughout the years I watched him create one thing after another. He and his wife Betty were self-incorporated, which to me meant that they worked from home. Now that I too work in the same self-dependent fashion I know that it means they work pretty much every day of their lives. To my older brother, Tim, and me it was a great blessing having them work at home and we spent as many days there as we did at home. Among the inventions that I remember were the fiberglass boats back before I was big enough to paddle one. Puddle-Dippa was one of the models that I remember, as was the remarkable Folda-Dippa - a fiberglass canoe that could be split into two nested sections and strapped on ones back. I still remember a newspaper-clipping showing one waking down the highway to a boat show. Beep and his creations were always in one publication or another.