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James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] Says

From David's brother Glen:
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David enjoyed boating all his life. With the help of our neighbor, Russ Brown, he built a pram when he was 12-13 years old.

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Next, he built a cabin on a 14-ft. Freeland steel boat. It had a Mercury motor. I remember him working on that in the garage and in the driveway between our house and Browns’.

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Then he bought a 25-ft double-ender, a Lake Michigan rescue boat.  He kept it just one summer, then traded it in.

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Then he bought a 1931 23-ft Chris Craft and spent a lot of time fixing it up. It was mahogany, double planked, very solid. He converted it to a square rigger (sailboat) for a couple of summers. It had no keel, so you couldn’t tack with it.

 
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He traded it in on a 25-foot Owens cabin cruiser. Later, he found that the people who had the Chris Craft stripped the hardware and motor and sank the boat, because they couldn’t sell it. If Dave had known, he would have made them an offer of $300 for it.
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As of 2003, he had a 19-ft lightning class sailboat. It has a centerboard you raise and put down. Once he and Davey were sailing on it when the wind came up and they had to pull into an inlet for safety because the waves were high.

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Dave also had a Thompson, which he bought in Hesperia - a 17-foot 1957 model with a 75-hp Evinrude motor; both boat and motor were in mint condition. This boat listed for $700 in 1957. To appreciate that figure, consider that $1800 could buy a Chevy Impala that year.

 
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Mom, Dad, and I - and sometimes some of my high school friends - enjoyed the river cruises Dave took us on, up and down the Muskegon River.
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