![]() ![]() Laurier doesn’t talk much, and he moves quietly about, not unlike a cat who just seems to appear. When things really get rough, he and the others don their goggles, earplugs and dust masks. ![]() “But you have Whitey, who understands the way things work.”Ĭopes is wearing safety shoes. “You’re working underneath with these little tools,” he says. It needed overhauling: scraping, replacing bad wood with filler, sanding and painting.įashioning a new floor and guardrail for the shad skiff is a current project of the six or seven men, the stalwarts among Laurier’s group of 15 to 20 volunteers, whom his wife’s dubbed the “Mechanics Extraordinaire.”Ĭopes helped get the skiff up on its blocks for its restoration. More than a year ago, they restored the log canoe under a shed. The gang’s been together for about two years, working out of doors in decent weather until the stable was refurbished. McCoy, the ex-banker, pronounces Laurier “very easy to work for.” There’s no whistling as they work, just the occasional bang, bang, bang of a hammer, or the whir of the sander Laurier’s running. ![]() Between bites, the guys talk, then get down to business. But no one’s splitting hairs here, or punching a clock or looking for trouser creases.Īl Crane arrives with a batch of his wife’s blueberry-bran muffins in tow. ![]()
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