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Jersey Girl

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Jim Norman's 20 foot houseboat, built in his northern New Jersey driveway from 2015 to 2021. The design started from Roy Schreyer's Dianne's Rose, stretched three feet and reworked into his own. Okoume plywood hull over sawn frames and bulkheads, a cabin of cedar posts and laminated roof beams sheathed in pine beadboard, and a fiberglassed arched roof with gull wing panels over the aft deck. Launched on the Hackensack River in May 2021, she now cruises Lake Hopatcong, where she took the Ladies' Choice award at the 2024 antique and classic boat show.

Make a book Feed The whole log, 1 entry and every photo, laid out as a book to print, bind and keep.

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Thu 17 Jan 2019 Paint & Finish Link

It's still a little too cold to venture out into the driveway to work on Jersey Girl,...

Houseboat update, Thursday, January 17, 2019... It's still a little too cold to venture out into the driveway to work on Jersey Girl, so I thought I'd go where it's a little hotter, or colder, or hotter, or... Hot off the easel: "In the Beginning," watercolor, 14 x 20 inches. No, it's not abstract. It's the third in my continuing series of paintings based on photographs sent back by Hubble. So, it's just another landscape. covering a little more ground, is all.

Nobody else here is logging a Jersey Girl yet. See the boat.