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No one
ever sets out to build a losing boat.

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It's always a winning boat.

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And as it's being built,
we're going to win races

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and then it becomes a real boat
and it runs.

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And sometimes it's successful,
sometimes it's not.

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That's this boat.

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But it did
something that was really important.

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I had my friend Brad. Brad Haskin.

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He calls me up on the phone one day
and says, Hey, I got this crazy idea.

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If I can get a couple of us
friends together,

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we can go buy an old vintage hydroplane.

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It's sitting on Craigslist.

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It hasn't raced in years,
and and the guy just wants to sell it.

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And we can buy it and we can donate it
and we can have a little bit of fun

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along the way, you know?

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I said,
I think you're a little crazy, Brad, but,

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let me think about it.

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Announcer: "And there's the Squire Shop
going into the north turn..."

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I found out it was one of the Nordberg boats.

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This was Chip Hanauer's big break.

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He's he's our big star of this sport.

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He's the guy who's won 11 gold cups.

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And this was the first boat
that he drove to win a race.

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Here comes the Squire.

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If you were here back in the seventies,
in the eighties,

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Squire Shop, that's
where you went to get your prom clothes.

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That's where you went

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to get your cool bell bottoms.
That connected the sport to the people.

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Announcer: "Squire Shop, Chip Hanauer,
holding on to the lead, as they go up into the air."

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I remember when I was a young kid,
we used to go to the Squire Shop

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and buy clothes.

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We wear the stonewashed
jeans back in the day.

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Squire Shop?  That's the boat to bring back.

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But it never could catch

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Atlas Van Lines

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But it went hard though.

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To run number two, in a race
when you're running around a trail.

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If you're there and you come up
the winning line, if you can throttle

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hard, that guy in front of
you don't know if you got it to beat him.

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And that's the way we used to win races.

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Announcer: "Chip Hanauer,
picking them up and

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laying them down, rocking and rolling,
doing a pretty good job right now."

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The underdog can still win.

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Good ride for Chip Hanauer!

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I thought about it
and it started to sound even more crazier.

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But over time, it was like,
you know, it wouldn't be such a bad deal.

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You know, I was like, why?

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And he explained to me
which one it was.

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And I was like, you know, honey,
we have history with this boat.

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I was offered a ride in it,
and I was so shy

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and I was so nervous,
and I just says, no, I can't do it.

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And he says, Are you sure?

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And I'm like, I'm sure.

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And I think I kind
of went and hid behind mom.

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Oh, she goes, I got pictures of it.

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Really?

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I remember having braids in my hair,

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and that's all I really remember about it.

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There it is,
her standing there on the dock.

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And I said, I know exactly what hull it is.

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That this boat.

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You know, we got to get it now.

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And I called the guy up

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and he goes,
I just sold the boat yesterday.

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You're kidding me, right?

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He goes no. I really did.

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I said, really?

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Oh man, we missed our chance.

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Kind of knew who would
bought the boat.

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And after about a year of asking,

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he finally broke down and said,
Yeah, I'll make a trade.

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I want another hydroplane.

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I'm like, I don't have another hydroplane.

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Well, that's the deal.

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So I immediately called the museum
and I said,

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is there any boats out there at all
that meet this criteria?

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He goes I know of only one
been on the market a very long time

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Had this tarp is flapping in the wind
strings hanging off it.

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Wood literally crumbling
in the ground.

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It was horrible.

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But he kept seeing the potential in it.

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We set up a meeting, drew up
the paperwork, and we

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finally got the boat.

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 To me, it was a Chip Hanauer boat

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It's the Squire Shop

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It had a deck on it.

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I didn't really care

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Get it down here

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day one. OK, let's remove the deck.

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I remember holding up the first sheet
and I hold up the fiberglass

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deck and I'm looking at it and the wood
backing had crumbled into the boat.

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And I'm like, where's the deck?

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It's in pieces laying inside.

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And like, wow, this is really rough.

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The very first thing I did

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in restoring this boat was pick
the mushrooms off the bottom of the boat.

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It was so saturated with rain,

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oil from the years of racing,
and then the damage was done.

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I was still hopeful

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because as long as I kept a screw,
it was the Squire Shop boat.

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Right?

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It's a ton easier.

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It's not old, grimy, unrecognizable stuff.

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All fresh cut and brand new.

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Not a screw put in the wood.

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You know, it's completely fresh.

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We're trying to preserve
not just create new.

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And so it was important to stay true
to the original design.

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There's a legacy that we get
to leave behind.

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It's something that not only our families
enjoy being a part of,

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but other people get to enjoy.

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The parts.  Well, it's it's kind of a long trail spans
almost the entire country.

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Some of them literally
about a block from my house,

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which was the cowling in the lake.

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Once I heard that story, you wouldn't
believe how many times I drive by.

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It's out there somewhere.

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It was a long time
to just find out where it was,

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and then to get the amazing amount
of volunteers I had to help me get it.

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30 some odd years, the bottom of
Lake Washington...perfect condition.

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Exciting.

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Great job, guys.

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You guys see,
we're working on the project.

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We got these parts
hanging up on the wall in our garage.

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Where'd you get those?

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Oh, a boat caught on fire or something
exploded. Engine failure,

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or whatever. The guys are just saying,
here, take it home. Souvenir.

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Been on the guys wall,
since the day it happened,

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He goes, you
might want to use these.

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Absolutely.

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The boats now are all plastic
and all composite boats.

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But the old method of building them out of
wood is getting lost.

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So it's kind of cool and help show
these guys and teach them how we did it.

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We're building boats, and we're
teaching people how to build boats.

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So we're preserving more than the history.

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We're preserving the knowledge.

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If it was just gonna been
a museum piece, then

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I probably wouldn't have gotten involved,
but to see it run again,

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that's the really cool part about it.

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I feel good and nervous at the same time.

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First time for a boat
going out, is always...

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you never know.

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You always double check.
Triple check.

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But there's always that,
heebie-jeebies, you know,

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Remember popping those decks and oh.

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It was a much larger project.

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You start by peeling off

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all the bad stuff, and there really was
pretty much all bad stuff.

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So that was a huge job.

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And then getting hit with COVID
right in the middle of it.

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This one took a lot longer
than it should have, but we're really,

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really happy to have it on the water finally.

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(engine sputters)

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Come on, Dave.

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(engine starts)

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(people clap and cheer)

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It's been a nine year

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journey for myself
since the day of the idea.

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It's one of those pinch me moments.

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I can't believe we pulled it off.

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We did it, baby.

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(boat engine purrs)

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Hear that?

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That's the happy sound!

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I haven't decided
if I'm going out for a ride yet.

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Maybe.
(laughs)

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Anything's possible.

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I have no desire to ride in the boat.

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I am still just a fan,
and that's all I'll ever be.

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Oh, Bob.

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We did it, man. Yep. Yep.

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Every boat has sort of a
spiritual guide, if you will.

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And that's. That's Gary for this project.

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He is certainly
the spiritual guide to this boat.

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He raised money, and he bought the boat,
and then he donated the boat.

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Our guy for the Squire Shop is Gary Laws.

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I mean, it's probably built better
now than it ever was brand new.

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It's a piece of art
that actually runs now.

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Would I do it again?

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I probably do it a little differently.

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But, you know, it was totally worth it.

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It's not just about the boat
and it's not just about, you know,

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getting it back out on the water.

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It's about the journey with my family.

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Seeing my dad and seeing Gary smile
and seeing mom smile.

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That's the important part to me.