Hey !Gamera!

     Where'd you get that picture of me ?Funny that. My youngest daughter always compared me to Quint . I guess because one time a fellow in the marina where we lived ( My girls and boy were raised partially aboard a comfortable Vessel .) He bowed into my port side aft .Broke some planks .I spent some time as a guest of our county and paid a fine 

   His insurance had to haul and fix the" Magical Leaf" They didn't like that .She was fifty at the time and had been some big Wig's yacht that I bought and turned into a Live-Aboard Home. Geez , I only hit him with an oar !I was younger too! Didn't think of the consequences ! I will settle for eccentric !LOL.LOL.

Thanks Tojo! 

Frankly I've never considered TB either a begger or grotesque. Maybe eccentric or grizzled would fit him though. 

Funny I always picture you TB as looking a lot like Quint from 'Jaws'.

'Oh you smashed my beautiful boat you big stupid fish!!! Now I'm going to kick you in the nose!!!!!'

No TB, I've never had that problem, in fact just the opposite. I have a hard time curbing my enthusiasm and and build several at once. That's one of the reasions I put down what I'm building and in the cue in my signature line so I can keep myself organized. 

The origin of codger seems to lie in the complex links between cadger and codger (not as a contraction of 'coffin-dodger', as one of my more inventive correspondents has suggested). In some parts of England the two words were used interchangeably, whereas in other regions they were separate words, one meaning 'beggar' and the other 'eccentric/grotesque fellow'. The latter meaning is the one used in an early example of 'old codger', David Garrick's farce Bon Ton, 1775:

"My Lord's servants call you an old out-of-fashion'd Codger."

Men who had fallen on hard times and had resorted to any means possible to keep body and soul together were often those who were too old to find work. A cadger was likely to be a grizzled character wanting to borrow or steal from you; a codger was a peculiar and unfashionable chap, and both were likely to be old. 'Old codger' is most likely to be the linguistic merging of all those images.