KNOCK ON WOOD
The cliché that says “it’s all in the timing” doesn’t mention anything about whether that timing is good, bad or both.
“As everybody knows, 2020 was just a dumpster fire,” said Jeff Krickhahn, the National Woodie Club’s outgoing Central Director and coordinator for its fourth-annual national meet. “ … We had the wheels in motion, so it was really pretty easy at that time, in 2020, to move everything to 2021, because everything was there, contacts were made.”
It wasn’t quite that simple, as Krickhahn explained that the plan for 2020 had been for a meet in cooperation with the Antique Boat Association’s Blackhawk Chapter event at Lake Geneva, Wis. Like so many other events last year, that was canceled and tentatively rescheduled for 2021, but the Boat Association then decided not to hold a meet this year.
“We got together with the board,” Krickhahn said, “and decided that, yeah, we owed it to the group to move forward, to cautiously move forward, but everything looked good, and so we moved ahead.”
The result was a show at nearby Delavan, Wis., that drew about 50 woodies from as far as California and Maine. Bill Quick,
