It's time to complete your plans for our summer boat shows. The Coeur d' Alene Antique and Classic Boat Festival registration is now open. Click on the link below for the Schedule of events and the registration form. This an on line only registration. Please read thru the event schedule carefully.  Further information will come out later. Register early as this helps with planning for the events. Plus, if you register by June 1st 2024 you will receive two complimentary tee shirts. Many thanks goes out to Coeur Customs and the Hagadone Marine Group for hosting our event at one of the best Boat Show venues in the Northwest on one of most beautiful lakes in the Northwest. 🔎 Click here for more details

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You are invited to a “Shop Talk” informal gathering at Doug Brooke’s shop in Spangle, WA June 8th at 10AM. Coffee and donuts will be provided, but you may want to bring a folding chair. ACBS members only please. RSVP to Doug by texting or calling 509 280-3011.

Doug’s silver and red steel shop building is located at the SE corner of the intersection of Second and Main in Spangle. Enter through the small grey door on the Second Street side. Parking is somewhat limited at the building. You may use my drive way and the street in the front of the building. There are other spots around town, just be considerate of the neighbors.

To get there, head south on US 195 take the Watt Road exit left toward Spangle then right at the stop sign when you enter town.

See you there.  Doug

With help from Alan Wardsworth, the Big Sky ACBS has a new website hosted by Frank Leftwich. You will notice some similarity to the Inland Empire site since both are built and hosted by Wix. The site will be fully online April 31, Here is the LINK

It’s time to play the Woody Boat Contest! This contest is just for fun. Results are subjective. Top 5 will be in Scuttlebutt and the winner receives a bottle of wine, T-shirt, or gift certificate (depending on what we find) Ron Yandt is the judge. Next Contest will be March 15, 2024 9:00am and ends April 30, 2024 12:00PM

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How many gauges does your boat have? Gauge can be mounted on the dash, on the engine cover, and on the engine itself! For example, if you had 6 gauges on the dashboard and an oil pressure gauge on the engine then your total would be 7. Good luck in the contest.

Anyone can attend the board meetings, all are welcome. Meetings include reading of the minutes from the previous meeting, old and new news, planning for our upcoming boat shows, budgets, and reports on website and Scuttlebutt. Lots of time to get together with friends and have a nice dinner out. 

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Ron 

Wes and Sue Yandt met with Dick and Mary Guman yesterday to deliver the IEACBS’s $1000 contribution to the Priest Lake Food Bank.  They are both dedicated volunteers at the food Bank.  Dick works about 30 hrs per week as the food banks accountant and they both are continuously managing the flow of food through the food bank.  They currently have 128 people on their recipients list but this number varies depending on the time of year.  

Home | PL Food Bank (priestlakefoodbank.org)