Madisonville Woodenboat Festival

Nice Planked Skiff	Old Lap Strake Runabout	Old plywood runabout	Old racing engines and raceboat
Hot old racing hydro with Merc.	Beautiful strip planked sailboat, from Dallas area.	Small lap strake by same builder as 06	Nice Sloop with motor in well
Runabout, River in background is lined with big wooden cruisers and sailboats	Huge skiff	Misc	Misc
More Misc. boats	Strip Planked Canoe	Runabouts on a trailer	Misc. in the water
Another NICE Canoe	Racing Shell	Mahogany Runabout	Guideboat and canoe
Punt	Old Runabout	Racing boat again	Lapstrake runabout
Kayak for south Louisiana	same, overall view	Another Nice Canoe	Higgins Runabout, Higgins of New Orleans built the thousands of Higgins Landing Craft used in WWII, Supposedly won the war for US
Misc boats	Ditto	Another Higgins	Motorbikes and Vespas
Shane Wallace on left	South Louisiana Swamp boat, Old engine, water cooled, big flywheel, reverses by changing timing and running backwards	More swamp boats plus an ancient 'Go-Devil' motor	Closeup
underway	Son in Law behind his favorite, Asking $900,000
These pictures were taken Sunday. The building was on Saturday. They were rigging sails etc.. Parade at 1:15, race at 1:30. I think there were 15 entries allowed. Limited building space.
Cat	Long and slender	Most boats had Patriotic themes	Double rowing stations
A flag	Tiny sail, I think they finished last	Really nice boat	Start of the Party
Eagle Head, First to finish I think	Work of art	Another nice one, look at the sail decoration	Swamp Rats boat, notice the Spanish Moss, These guys and girls put on costumes later, they had the MOST fun
Salty Dog, a nice dory. They were my favorites but finished 4th in the race	Jazz band led the parade, boat numbers in order	No. 1 boat	Parade action
Eagle Head	Beer Can forestay	Costumes, masks and eared caps, they were wonderful	Mr. Swamp Rat himself.
The entries paraded to the race start, which was up river from the bridge, and launched their boats. The wind was downriver. They sailed to a turn location below the bridge then had to paddle back upriver to the finish line. The parade and race were really fun to watch. The boats actually sailed downwind well. None had centerboards and all had to paddle upwind.
Eagle Head nears the bridge in the lead	Eagle Head again	The next boats	Then came the masses
And more masses	Tailers	More Tailers	Swamp Rat boat, small sail, last place, but had the most fun
Eagle Head finishes first	'We're coming to get ya' finished 2nd	016 finishes 3 rd.