[David Bienvenu]

Last October I ran into a friend that came back to town to sell his boat shed and lift at a local marina since he moved from Louisiana to Maine. We started talking and I asked about his boat (which I had never really looked at before)and what his plans for it were. He said if he sold the shed he would proboly try to sell the motor and haul the 37 year old boat that no one would want to the dump. So within a week I owned the shed and got the boat, motor and trailer for "Lagniappe". (Cajun for a little extra thrown in for nothing) I was questioned by many why I was going to spend the time and money on restoreing an old boat like that. At that time I didn't know what I had but a year later with the project complete, all I've learned from this site and this article I'm sure glad I kept it from going to the "grave yard". When we stripped it down to bare hull many commented that they never saw a boat built like this one. Now I know the whole story and why it was constructed the way it was. No wonder it performs and rides so good. (And the fish like it too) I was told in the past that it was used to haul many loads of lumber out to build (rebuild too) camps out in the marsh. It does what Moesly designed it to do.
Another bit of history I learned about this "Red headed step child" was that a man won this boat as a prize in a fishing rodeo in 1966 and didn't want to come up with the taxes required and already had a boat so sold it for a "song" to my friends father.
Count me in for the decal's!