{"id":6022,"date":"2025-08-24T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=6022"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:11:15","slug":"miss-merion-bluegrass-trailer-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/miss-merion-bluegrass-trailer-build\/","title":{"rendered":"MISS MERION BLUEGRASS &#8211; trailer build"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a (to me, inspiring) slideshow video on the hydro trailer build. A lot of neat ideas and cool details went into this trailer build. I wish I would have saw this before I built mine (many years ago), as I would have &#8216;borrowed&#8217; a few of these ideas they built into their trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miss Merion Bluegrass Trailer Reconstruction\" width=\"1012\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yrHZEsV1DVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>HULL BUILD &#8211; And if you never seen the video slideshow of the rebuild of the MMB hull, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CDmbWmjVMCo\">click here<\/a>. The original was burned in a back yard by an owner in Olympia, Washington. David Kancianich, who owned the ANNIES DODGE II, was asked if he would bring his boat to Don Kelson&#8217;s shop to measure it as it was basically the same as the original MISS MERION BLUEGRASS. However, the new one is two feet longer than the original one.<br \/><br \/>HULL RIGGING &amp; PAINT &#8211; If you have watched the above 2 videos, then you surely would like to see this famous hydro being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iwpCVbbtxlc\">finished up<\/a>. <br \/><br \/>WEBSITE &#8211; Illustrious history of the MMB is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missmerionbluegrass.com\/history.html\">their website<\/a>. <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a (to me, inspiring) slideshow video on the hydro trailer build. A lot of neat ideas and cool details went into this trailer build. I wish I would have saw this before I built mine (many years ago), as I would have &#8216;borrowed&#8217; a few of these ideas they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6022"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}