tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8508647634535496262024-03-13T13:44:03.985-07:00fretwaterlinesboats, boaters, builders, and boatbabblebrdfrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464899918729609363noreply@blogger.comBlogger455125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850864763453549626.post-14367286315063588362020-11-09T18:14:00.001-08:002020-11-09T18:14:17.046-08:00Moving Day<p> Well, after nearly ten years here at blogspot, Fretwaterlines is moving to our new website, <a href="http://FretwaterBoatworks.com">FretwaterBoatworks.com</a>. </p><p>I'll leave this website live for the indefinite future, but if you want anything new, come on over and check it out. </p><p>There's also lots of stuff on the website you might enjoy--boats, pictures, stories, and stuff. Julie and Lara at Shine Creative Industries have done a teriffic job, and more is being added all the time.</p><p>See you there--</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjYk5YHpo546rdB0bGjHf7ngSoONaC-elZ-Ece_s2r_Ra686GkxGjKork8RorBcki7uQOTmZRVbT56JKgJ9GLwIaY98KAc-QEAR9giZHrJUiZ7fTQy4mG_5RYK07Qft9hJRmU7fKRpzjK/s2048/Image.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1698" data-original-width="2048" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjYk5YHpo546rdB0bGjHf7ngSoONaC-elZ-Ece_s2r_Ra686GkxGjKork8RorBcki7uQOTmZRVbT56JKgJ9GLwIaY98KAc-QEAR9giZHrJUiZ7fTQy4mG_5RYK07Qft9hJRmU7fKRpzjK/w400-h331/Image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>brdfrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464899918729609363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850864763453549626.post-81062383956205560422020-10-07T13:08:00.004-07:002020-10-07T13:08:50.925-07:00Fretwater Boatworks Video debut<p> Yesterday American Rivers and OARS debuted Dawn Kish's lovely film about our boat shop: Can't Beat This Place For Fun.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtp0FviCIWrAXueGJmxcK6UaBggIwzPZatbcHbBSa3KZYuKD5yXg40nmbW6ntE5g0KsV0icsvpgyBGP2quieBYc3ABccvu3qhlxMUA_eYdreMl5UGhzv0dQnBlhAxxPGniHOUP0hRl5dVu/s2048/CAN%2527T-BEAT_FILM_BRAD_PROMO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1390" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtp0FviCIWrAXueGJmxcK6UaBggIwzPZatbcHbBSa3KZYuKD5yXg40nmbW6ntE5g0KsV0icsvpgyBGP2quieBYc3ABccvu3qhlxMUA_eYdreMl5UGhzv0dQnBlhAxxPGniHOUP0hRl5dVu/s320/CAN%2527T-BEAT_FILM_BRAD_PROMO.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I really think you should watch it. Click here:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.americanrivers.org/rivers/films/cant-beat-this-place-for-fun/" target="_blank">Can't Beat This Place For Fun</a></div><p></p>brdfrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464899918729609363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850864763453549626.post-14937548401767821942020-09-22T12:09:00.000-07:002020-09-22T12:09:27.998-07:00Moving Boats, Cool Letters, and Jaguar Rising.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was a great movement of boats in the air this month. Two boats I built several years ago came up for sale. We brokered the deals to new owners and Cricket is on the road delivering them--and their trailers--as we speak. Glen Canyon has moved to Montana, and Rio Rojo is heading for Eugene. Peekaboo is going along for the ride.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2p4v82FgVEGIN5sO-cYXPztcSLjqc_ymkoLGOaSiDPxInlcLYidhqROoyL3PA7xTzkX2wiyFmxFsjFRq9StjwqVNiyneACEuqIcJGCR4c89cmVGz9EIFmtunupnOgeoN3jl0qmVhPIQFF/s2047/BF7B9032-0EA7-40DD-ACB2-4FF07F870292.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2047" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2p4v82FgVEGIN5sO-cYXPztcSLjqc_ymkoLGOaSiDPxInlcLYidhqROoyL3PA7xTzkX2wiyFmxFsjFRq9StjwqVNiyneACEuqIcJGCR4c89cmVGz9EIFmtunupnOgeoN3jl0qmVhPIQFF/s320/BF7B9032-0EA7-40DD-ACB2-4FF07F870292.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBs6WhR_Bi9r5uIQIIQaB3LJcXDyKRsT4phIn4XdZFMWshRgqtNVFdk-iAAI2RrUX3yQWbwrG0-GNRCnZTB5BkeqzCRD_VESx6RMqPMkymAqTsbBnd2HphVFh8l_j0NCuelKZ-ymITlxIj/s320/B04945DC-05B6-4DF1-8662-27BFE67B6406.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Boxcar, my old San Juan punt, found a new owner as well--Tse Kooh Outfitters on the San Juan. Here is Dawn saying farewell. <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTLNTD8WQ8egmmFLasCi-wj23F-FBHehmlI7aw9Kdxb2n0LAuP5WsdbYva4rmg-axwhdak_nbINjcyAwb7YjfY2sHMnFezJ4hCXQzMtSoz7WudRNv6rNzamPBzQjxUPh_CmFwicKz7hlaV/s2048/IMG_5207.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTLNTD8WQ8egmmFLasCi-wj23F-FBHehmlI7aw9Kdxb2n0LAuP5WsdbYva4rmg-axwhdak_nbINjcyAwb7YjfY2sHMnFezJ4hCXQzMtSoz7WudRNv6rNzamPBzQjxUPh_CmFwicKz7hlaV/s320/IMG_5207.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div>With all the boat movement I thought it might be a cool time to put my silly little sailboat on the market. Blam. Gone.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDwzoJdYwrmenLZOD6iMpK-Te6Me90dmD-iw7j-ePrtIHVOlS4OfV_98uJL4-xiMpAhA5aAZtBUqjk0mgBAqN3PPFC9B5ylDivjga5FiJQjvtnMDIuWefvrfIKl5xnuUQDntrWTt5qSeJe/s320/IMG_5318.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's really great to see these boats heading to folks who'll get them out of storage and onto the rivers where they belong.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I seem to have dodged a bullet this month--a scary knee flare-up had most of the medical folk fearing I was in for some long and scary knee surgery. I cancelled a lot of plans and braced for the worst. But I guess the knee got scared, because it decided to get better on its own. So now we are back to physical therapy to get both knees strong and limber once more. More medical stuff swirling about this month, but so far it all seems to be solving itself. Check out my cool inflatable pants at the PT shop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZpl6Xwy0FUVMjsiUKV9bUG2Ih2-hnB6llutmC9A6q9Jpb6Lys0PfrIYUT6zXhWnqnDcOAyBY6l1H8C2uUvwUqnL1qqijb2IeotKFwckg_evOBpDioqabq8SCabTnmjcI_i5gSbtSEHDDa/s320/IMG_5279.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" /></div><div><br /></div>Vladimir came by and we built a Viking Funeral raft for his Granddad's ashes. VK the First designed many seminal rafts in his day, and this one is his Avon Spirit. The frame is one of his fiberglass inventions which wasn't quite as awesome as the boats. But hey.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLkwDf60qJ3tqPYj5omQGCsPIX3xFZ4Jeo9piS40o7DmdLwFglnEMIGGyrDL6HBCou7yN6NV5uBzsNLXDPBxs5mAZfj2jLbzVMkSFZRXFl_YT9obPAjjwUlIy1VoZeZSJBhEuoOpgJ-xF/s2048/IMG_5143.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLkwDf60qJ3tqPYj5omQGCsPIX3xFZ4Jeo9piS40o7DmdLwFglnEMIGGyrDL6HBCou7yN6NV5uBzsNLXDPBxs5mAZfj2jLbzVMkSFZRXFl_YT9obPAjjwUlIy1VoZeZSJBhEuoOpgJ-xF/s2048/IMG_5143.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0Rz1fC3PNp9YZa1sG4qDUhYZQpIXqNAFPVqa1XwhlOvu3Xwr7o_BLm-NvHidueWy2oA6EHs8jzFrKuDUPjWT2YDRxMpH0eqYUSbYI-nJ7whNkhtJeU8uyhUUbl3OS-01Qos1kPIepK8B/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0Rz1fC3PNp9YZa1sG4qDUhYZQpIXqNAFPVqa1XwhlOvu3Xwr7o_BLm-NvHidueWy2oA6EHs8jzFrKuDUPjWT2YDRxMpH0eqYUSbYI-nJ7whNkhtJeU8uyhUUbl3OS-01Qos1kPIepK8B/" width="180" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tEbrCRyDGCdiS4eDnqCgEr_zCzJrpvwL72zklYtqaXHi1mqh6V-QRewav2B0uM0sW8MtmumD_genOxHRkV-eCEoAOBlLGe8GqAUmNATHktfESlEaWY6oQpoZrOBtc_44Ap3epvRNLEIm/s2048/IMG_5171.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tEbrCRyDGCdiS4eDnqCgEr_zCzJrpvwL72zklYtqaXHi1mqh6V-QRewav2B0uM0sW8MtmumD_genOxHRkV-eCEoAOBlLGe8GqAUmNATHktfESlEaWY6oQpoZrOBtc_44Ap3epvRNLEIm/s320/IMG_5171.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>When there's a sign-painter on the premises. you gotta paint signs.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhErJtDq85IvoUN9vb54VhXYNAO39nw9CnF_Xo4THBK98KEpv6opazv9hiMXZuJfN-npJMbtzqKXUOLj0ElcrOUh4Za0htAOZH0xskUuxHaGcBa8ASnZhyphenhyphenB5SaKgpVuhfv3LGZxZkDR039a/s2048/IMG_5180.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhErJtDq85IvoUN9vb54VhXYNAO39nw9CnF_Xo4THBK98KEpv6opazv9hiMXZuJfN-npJMbtzqKXUOLj0ElcrOUh4Za0htAOZH0xskUuxHaGcBa8ASnZhyphenhyphenB5SaKgpVuhfv3LGZxZkDR039a/s320/IMG_5180.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLkwDf60qJ3tqPYj5omQGCsPIX3xFZ4Jeo9piS40o7DmdLwFglnEMIGGyrDL6HBCou7yN6NV5uBzsNLXDPBxs5mAZfj2jLbzVMkSFZRXFl_YT9obPAjjwUlIy1VoZeZSJBhEuoOpgJ-xF/s320/IMG_5143.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTesNWkz_gRuyRs319LjsGMR5DK9x-pxO05p6h1Wa_31dVNMEnjUM-g7W0q-ZVTToavT7RgKsCDENG7-X2JOI216PXGW8Ne6XWwEdamMd9C0Cl5qsiAUbn1UOax7pCI70wuTqv0AHQnsX/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTesNWkz_gRuyRs319LjsGMR5DK9x-pxO05p6h1Wa_31dVNMEnjUM-g7W0q-ZVTToavT7RgKsCDENG7-X2JOI216PXGW8Ne6XWwEdamMd9C0Cl5qsiAUbn1UOax7pCI70wuTqv0AHQnsX/" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lots of oarmaking and oar leathering for the Doryaks this month as well. Here's James out at Galaxy Sales cutting oarstop leather for us with his fancy leather cutting gizmo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGOPJKfQsJWRGMeZgQRmhpH2fPf5U2KvCUtV3sZrYcv0E-PADAn-bHCcpv5uTZaSiIUnXa8wZERLnP2ZB5NPpdzA_c06P7HlkhhLtcjygB8KkwyPiwbWhh5rI_B63ubEr87Fg-JMcGVW4C/s2048/IMG_5013.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGOPJKfQsJWRGMeZgQRmhpH2fPf5U2KvCUtV3sZrYcv0E-PADAn-bHCcpv5uTZaSiIUnXa8wZERLnP2ZB5NPpdzA_c06P7HlkhhLtcjygB8KkwyPiwbWhh5rI_B63ubEr87Fg-JMcGVW4C/s320/IMG_5013.jpeg" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div>Some of the leather gets turned into patterns for boat parts.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_kCNtb0TgGzngyh4g-JswZEUExZ-6o24nlxJToLM-8Xqi3vEW4-z5I7reYcZfSCP-yHNRYzssxHW0xD0938cJkYqpjyNCPKImEwaZtK2tazK67mGeygaDg5NEc5L1pRFMWTmSDBs_Hd1/s2048/IMG_5209.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_kCNtb0TgGzngyh4g-JswZEUExZ-6o24nlxJToLM-8Xqi3vEW4-z5I7reYcZfSCP-yHNRYzssxHW0xD0938cJkYqpjyNCPKImEwaZtK2tazK67mGeygaDg5NEc5L1pRFMWTmSDBs_Hd1/s320/IMG_5209.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And cast into bronze. Hot stinky fiery bronze casting--always a fun way to spend the day. And the best breastplate ever.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOfDQ2PU3gCa5wWmFLjNgYUkZOcMOjYlL8Oz6wqCzdKVfqtnggfUS88S9wqA42PVrMMbgoryPibkqidpbqTKXAYq_0DPpVcpo5H97YjRzq_L_sGrWHEDKgI-AoSlyXZaZYoz_KxZsN-XT/s787/9801CB83-8BA6-4716-B5B9-03CED72B626A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOfDQ2PU3gCa5wWmFLjNgYUkZOcMOjYlL8Oz6wqCzdKVfqtnggfUS88S9wqA42PVrMMbgoryPibkqidpbqTKXAYq_0DPpVcpo5H97YjRzq_L_sGrWHEDKgI-AoSlyXZaZYoz_KxZsN-XT/s320/9801CB83-8BA6-4716-B5B9-03CED72B626A.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmaKBYlCA519bHHKSXEA5NUWOiG03qWNXwurSpy_QDV3svVbEsh8G9e-FFyTB4mLEbawIy_8VhqCppv1ZBXqadsZ1B0vqlui0DfUahclRupNocPL7uD3CTTYglLEQpHq2VwLwiWKKFJLi/s2048/IMG_5218.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmaKBYlCA519bHHKSXEA5NUWOiG03qWNXwurSpy_QDV3svVbEsh8G9e-FFyTB4mLEbawIy_8VhqCppv1ZBXqadsZ1B0vqlui0DfUahclRupNocPL7uD3CTTYglLEQpHq2VwLwiWKKFJLi/s320/IMG_5218.jpeg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Custom washers for the Jaguar.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6uoL5MOfjXP4lZlKa2k3OGszwKXeKzG0mxDlTXTKFtMkRp-mYuIBsUGqkCovjhdCVP2Wh2uWpCQWpDIdv-z7lm6-afAt4DoOW-YEZeCR0dqk0kGXE9AW43RoWkmX_jGY2SHBZh-GpDKL/s2048/IMG_5266.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6uoL5MOfjXP4lZlKa2k3OGszwKXeKzG0mxDlTXTKFtMkRp-mYuIBsUGqkCovjhdCVP2Wh2uWpCQWpDIdv-z7lm6-afAt4DoOW-YEZeCR0dqk0kGXE9AW43RoWkmX_jGY2SHBZh-GpDKL/s320/IMG_5266.jpeg" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div>The Jaguar, by the way, is coming along nicely, although life keeps getting in the way of our normal frenetic speed. But we're still ahead of schedule to be ready for Jag's first Grand Canyon trip in three weeks. Woot woot!</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNTPCESK2CNkZUmuLrPH2RTE5-8bTqTpfKIKmUr3zhmhv4wCYmHdCGt3okb6njAoSP6KOjA6HFF-AZIzQv9DVNubWEtoST85hFIB2H4OvnGWDmZRSne4XZGSDxDYVi6cjavhPMCIgWXLO/s2048/IMG_5247.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNTPCESK2CNkZUmuLrPH2RTE5-8bTqTpfKIKmUr3zhmhv4wCYmHdCGt3okb6njAoSP6KOjA6HFF-AZIzQv9DVNubWEtoST85hFIB2H4OvnGWDmZRSne4XZGSDxDYVi6cjavhPMCIgWXLO/s320/IMG_5247.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7f7VdlnluPtBA_Sx1WTvn0nVYRzWNIgLh9sdX9kzirhvYEIJIH16699ZL6xusXnX-P66OyCKfektVuKH3yANcigo_SkCAkGLXQuNrWxx0Ayr_VqtiX4ZvVWQT21gzLtDFH9Ti-Rq8F6eU/s2048/IMG_5275.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7f7VdlnluPtBA_Sx1WTvn0nVYRzWNIgLh9sdX9kzirhvYEIJIH16699ZL6xusXnX-P66OyCKfektVuKH3yANcigo_SkCAkGLXQuNrWxx0Ayr_VqtiX4ZvVWQT21gzLtDFH9Ti-Rq8F6eU/s320/IMG_5275.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Qd4yv3-WmMIb9VQKXs1AwtbHz-gC7PAHR_tmNEJX7FxT9SByuPxtUNtnobjd4uu0FjeE-417yHnkYmDYYsypGwnOJC669aGuqF64MoJpRjVxQpOj1Mk2mzuN0o7d9w5RuduOuwxLOhH3/s2048/IMG_5290.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Qd4yv3-WmMIb9VQKXs1AwtbHz-gC7PAHR_tmNEJX7FxT9SByuPxtUNtnobjd4uu0FjeE-417yHnkYmDYYsypGwnOJC669aGuqF64MoJpRjVxQpOj1Mk2mzuN0o7d9w5RuduOuwxLOhH3/s320/IMG_5290.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaddRlP_ulvmwp_q-U94ixRoZxIY-zsZy4hrhZRXwH4eL2aWxl9yVYtWU8T6HyNik65DsuMmF0zMgJa-DqUlXYLn9HGsEjvCa9WcNGUv9TkPdxrtTdsVlNJJy863UkxZEw44TgJ4GaDU3R/s2048/IMG_5358.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaddRlP_ulvmwp_q-U94ixRoZxIY-zsZy4hrhZRXwH4eL2aWxl9yVYtWU8T6HyNik65DsuMmF0zMgJa-DqUlXYLn9HGsEjvCa9WcNGUv9TkPdxrtTdsVlNJJy863UkxZEw44TgJ4GaDU3R/s320/IMG_5358.jpeg" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Even though I am not a real fiberglass guy or surfboard repairman, odd things come by that I occasionally decide to try and deal with. Like this snapped-in-two paddleboard. Damn, that's really screwed up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifEOC1_hm-Vt1BKjjkjIHML_9kI3E91_9kTmujsFHkXMz2AwCB2iM0ddtTmZBwt9aNtBqrGpsL5UhV9BGdNXkE04f_AMznRetc_nN8iH-ovofj63bXpk4OCQqqjbyadNOo8O-IlHU02naP/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifEOC1_hm-Vt1BKjjkjIHML_9kI3E91_9kTmujsFHkXMz2AwCB2iM0ddtTmZBwt9aNtBqrGpsL5UhV9BGdNXkE04f_AMznRetc_nN8iH-ovofj63bXpk4OCQqqjbyadNOo8O-IlHU02naP/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">But splint it straight, then go with a bit of epoxy in the broken styrofoam, a bit of filler, and a styrofoam patch should get us back in business pretty quickly, right? One step forward.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZYq6ztkItxvk3pV4HaiwzNknu04O2xJL-QbL0cSHUxjSPSsriYQGppqFSyKA643yE0xbKGL5za0AMtlh_rxrW0ImiuOV1FPrESNfoufYfCVd3pbogPaz6XA8F3pQ4KQy2gwMOFb8MBbO/s2048/IMG_5235.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZYq6ztkItxvk3pV4HaiwzNknu04O2xJL-QbL0cSHUxjSPSsriYQGppqFSyKA643yE0xbKGL5za0AMtlh_rxrW0ImiuOV1FPrESNfoufYfCVd3pbogPaz6XA8F3pQ4KQy2gwMOFb8MBbO/s320/IMG_5235.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Um, not if you use fast epoxy and it gets all hot and melts the guts out of the board. Damn. Two steps back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBEduQcMuNKeM527hadm2CJ9_eYimELvkV0d85f4kqMQP99Oym6NnkipS5kCFPTQOn96Wa51RkjmHVtQzxEoo8Scm5dNCEO3Uj92sP5BjPyD_dcjJsXAOkueZKihA6595Id1aVif2_CQgn/s2048/IMG_5236.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBEduQcMuNKeM527hadm2CJ9_eYimELvkV0d85f4kqMQP99Oym6NnkipS5kCFPTQOn96Wa51RkjmHVtQzxEoo8Scm5dNCEO3Uj92sP5BjPyD_dcjJsXAOkueZKihA6595Id1aVif2_CQgn/s320/IMG_5236.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Okay, cut a way bigger styrofoam patch, then glue and fill with something that doesn't get hot.</div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxyMhck3BUwQBA0DowIO4My7-X6TQmbSvQoPWV_rzylwHyI7IPcRzs7fabRSObz34flSa-lr_rjJl2uPnFkfCs-XspbrW5ebBYIJyDtFvHhasm_DS70jkrvH7cn5mPHQAIhiL7l_W_Q8g/s2048/IMG_5240.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxyMhck3BUwQBA0DowIO4My7-X6TQmbSvQoPWV_rzylwHyI7IPcRzs7fabRSObz34flSa-lr_rjJl2uPnFkfCs-XspbrW5ebBYIJyDtFvHhasm_DS70jkrvH7cn5mPHQAIhiL7l_W_Q8g/s320/IMG_5240.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Way mo better. Trim and sand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2aGi14O9r-xlSuIJ_nGUUGggvO0paquxsyB2ZwrG-ayWK_13AYSNokhm3NQeCA6_fD_-m5D0cSMigT_2TYntknwSLuiMNqBHVbijUou6O1voMrmGL872fEPlqCLc0M69-HV-qKOHbjMEv/s2048/IMG_5274.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2aGi14O9r-xlSuIJ_nGUUGggvO0paquxsyB2ZwrG-ayWK_13AYSNokhm3NQeCA6_fD_-m5D0cSMigT_2TYntknwSLuiMNqBHVbijUou6O1voMrmGL872fEPlqCLc0M69-HV-qKOHbjMEv/s320/IMG_5274.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then glass it with ever-so-slow-kick resin.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdPS_fBZvvbffHjVb7xIrvCTd5PfGaRkWwDTxEEThUcdKNxNk_KsfodjxrA2iXc5oFjF-RDfz3CCXE_8Q8pcvHbqteeajXlsaHJqvwG8dWRfPX4SfEg4mUR8roH5uuj0HiRLKRogV10Byb/s2048/IMG_5295.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdPS_fBZvvbffHjVb7xIrvCTd5PfGaRkWwDTxEEThUcdKNxNk_KsfodjxrA2iXc5oFjF-RDfz3CCXE_8Q8pcvHbqteeajXlsaHJqvwG8dWRfPX4SfEg4mUR8roH5uuj0HiRLKRogV10Byb/s320/IMG_5295.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Fill and sand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHuGfu9E-A40kbJUJ6ozWGH3cx5x5d0OodJXkvn9PRduMgxkEwi5rNyXX13oxqKXJFWsXg7FCYrRjt30Kuz5DMiBEs00xR_ElVGRQAKQA7X3aSR1a4W8X3K0fpjtSc8q2sC2UatkKw99q/s2048/IMG_5307.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHuGfu9E-A40kbJUJ6ozWGH3cx5x5d0OodJXkvn9PRduMgxkEwi5rNyXX13oxqKXJFWsXg7FCYrRjt30Kuz5DMiBEs00xR_ElVGRQAKQA7X3aSR1a4W8X3K0fpjtSc8q2sC2UatkKw99q/s320/IMG_5307.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div><p>Paint it, send it home, and put a "closed forever" sign on Fretwater Surfboard Repairs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihpqhdDeL9fshvcKHp19RRgfEnq0LmhUKBsBixWl_kHUTAUKOgX3q6DTdlh8ulDhyphenhyphenXEWPDBDuxzaSge-Hg1eccxgcqp_1IKq_ETmWVmOKDy9hxi-PMkaRuYPCSZa8Cdf5528CnrxkW826P/s2048/IMG_5362.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihpqhdDeL9fshvcKHp19RRgfEnq0LmhUKBsBixWl_kHUTAUKOgX3q6DTdlh8ulDhyphenhyphenXEWPDBDuxzaSge-Hg1eccxgcqp_1IKq_ETmWVmOKDy9hxi-PMkaRuYPCSZa8Cdf5528CnrxkW826P/s320/IMG_5362.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGOPJKfQsJWRGMeZgQRmhpH2fPf5U2KvCUtV3sZrYcv0E-PADAn-bHCcpv5uTZaSiIUnXa8wZERLnP2ZB5NPpdzA_c06P7HlkhhLtcjygB8KkwyPiwbWhh5rI_B63ubEr87Fg-JMcGVW4C/s2048/IMG_5013.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">And get back to solid fun in the shop. </div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">By the way, Dawn Kish's new film on the boat shop, </div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/453779500" target="_blank">Can't Beat This Place For Fun</a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">which had a sneak preview on the 7th, will be released by American Rivers October 6. It's fun, it's funny, and it's an honor to be the subject of such a creative endeavor. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="580" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAYNl1lSZO4CDZRZJFgMbomND6pW0gleuGhOzLOr9DdIalKuMn6Yi5d3912MOJO5ue7N4QX8GQC_D1amr_JscoV92OMMl2AXpJGBAgnTO3YezBrMmIUveYrOPhNlCpFbwmL7O_R3EVRoIe/s320/IMG_5281.jpg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><p></p></div>brdfrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464899918729609363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850864763453549626.post-17489654914522192692020-09-03T09:42:00.005-07:002020-09-03T12:03:29.937-07:00Can't Beat This Place for Fun<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHDAlBAw6VHL7f_ZrfiqEMiQjfC1P-mQbeqUkEx1ERiIpRAE9V5dBUMxqqJIgLw3dLxZp_BWRESCOfLKcCz9U08_O1CDDjeB1vl-WSUke7Pudiar7_X230WZOMEcgQPCOx3GOwkQZzzhL/s2048/CAN%2527T-BEAT_FILM_POSTCARD_FRONT_CMYK.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHDAlBAw6VHL7f_ZrfiqEMiQjfC1P-mQbeqUkEx1ERiIpRAE9V5dBUMxqqJIgLw3dLxZp_BWRESCOfLKcCz9U08_O1CDDjeB1vl-WSUke7Pudiar7_X230WZOMEcgQPCOx3GOwkQZzzhL/w500-h360/CAN%2527T-BEAT_FILM_POSTCARD_FRONT_CMYK.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Time to get the popcorn out and watch some movies.<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>Please join us for a fun new film by Dawn Kish and American Rivers, <span style="font-style: italic;">“Can’t Beat This Place For Fun”. </span><span>This will be an on-line premiere</span> on Monday, September 7th, 6:30PM, for the <b>Colorado River Days</b> events.</span><span> Plus, a behind the scenes interview after the film with director, Dawn Kish, and featured talent, Brad Dimock.</span></span></div><div><b style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Can’t Beat This Place For Fun!” </span></i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">This film is a small vignette of Fretwater Boatworks and how they work and play. This boat shop is very unique and keeps the tradition of wooden boat building alive whilst honoring the story of Martin Litton’s - Grand Canyon Dory. These beautiful boats still represent advocacy toward wild places compromised and/or lost. “Win or lose, there’s a measure of victory in the endeavor,” Martin Litton.</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Director/Camera: Dawn Kish, Camera/Editor: Jake Hewitt, Producer: John Tveten, Featuring: Brad Dimock, Amy “Cricket" Rust and Pat Clark and the great Martin Litton.</span> </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>There will be other great films before and after about our love for the river, like this beautiful film, <em style="caret-color: rgb(38, 51, 51); color: #263333; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>Water Flows Together</b>, </em></span><span>with Dine naturalist and river guide Colleen Cooley. </span><span>Tickets available through the Orpheum Theatre platform in this link below. Plus, there is more information on the interesting events during the Colorado River Days, September 1st-15th.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.coloradoriverdaysflagstaff.org/workshops/2020/9/7/colorado-river-days-virtual-film-showcase" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Colorado River Days Film Premiere</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>A big THANK YOU to our lovely sponsors American Rivers and OARS </span><span>and</span><span> co-production by our friends from The Flagstaff Mountain Film and the Orpheum Theatre.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stay groovy like a movie!</span></div></div>brdfrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464899918729609363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850864763453549626.post-76107028909140435502020-08-15T20:29:00.002-07:002020-08-15T21:19:16.963-07:00Back to the Doryak<p style="text-align: left;">Well, back to Flagstaff and back to normal. Oh wait. Normal is over with. No more normal. So might as well go get a Covid test. Nostril rape is really weird. Especially from a space woman. But I thought it a good idea since I'd been traveling and was about to go do a commercial river trip. But wouldn't you know it: results take a week or so. By which time I was downriver. Never did get the results.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP-OLvOXqJR9cGdIU5gwoTtovKXTvEWULfcAcaiiCm4MkSawKVaZSzUY5v1UeZtKy1aAKYXouffEebsclVgH4WLdFNcX8k8rqyFD2H5fFyMAYUGVPrx5JumC4EOGCAtu6B9xPdoS_5t1wZ/s2048/IMG_1391.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP-OLvOXqJR9cGdIU5gwoTtovKXTvEWULfcAcaiiCm4MkSawKVaZSzUY5v1UeZtKy1aAKYXouffEebsclVgH4WLdFNcX8k8rqyFD2H5fFyMAYUGVPrx5JumC4EOGCAtu6B9xPdoS_5t1wZ/w410-h307/IMG_1391.jpeg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Some really lovely coverage of Fretwater boat world came out while we were traveling. We got <i>The Gulch </i>cover<i> </i>story with words by me and fabulous photos by my lovely and talented sweetheart <a href="https://dawnkish.com">Dawn Kish</a>. Click on her name for more about her work. Click on <a href="https://www.gulchmag.com/subscribe/issue-13" target="_blank">Forward Into the Past</a> for a glimpse of the magazine and the opportunity to order one.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuqGlFBocl_y6Rov3K5DqeJYCYcS1m13fS8z1mgtpIgsEi5u0L-CwSgfnHOhVeC9E3rxPHB9G-2FV1XSb85wtL7qEEY-RovGRQIa1JuDREoOFoeIHZRGOL95hiSzenv1wRcq6vuy_N5DZ/s2048/8310FF94-12B6-480C-8906-1C0A1D9BBA37.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuqGlFBocl_y6Rov3K5DqeJYCYcS1m13fS8z1mgtpIgsEi5u0L-CwSgfnHOhVeC9E3rxPHB9G-2FV1XSb85wtL7qEEY-RovGRQIa1JuDREoOFoeIHZRGOL95hiSzenv1wRcq6vuy_N5DZ/s640/8310FF94-12B6-480C-8906-1C0A1D9BBA37.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not only that but Patagonia did a lovely story as well (online only) with more of Dawn's images. Find it here: <a href="https://www.patagonia.com/stories/bound-for-dory/story-89416.html" target="_blank">Bound For Dory</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2G_lhB_-ZRNuGT4rolWBZaMCAoyF384j79mUNDpyr79o5zIT21BSyXOji_oYpKVcMNcmdgKSChB1ZPYBwLwfkRUeU70BbOC4d93CnRIkUlr2DxvI2Go4rW1P5_nNAYwE-4bdQOVE8EWCn/s2048/BoundForDory.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1421" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2G_lhB_-ZRNuGT4rolWBZaMCAoyF384j79mUNDpyr79o5zIT21BSyXOji_oYpKVcMNcmdgKSChB1ZPYBwLwfkRUeU70BbOC4d93CnRIkUlr2DxvI2Go4rW1P5_nNAYwE-4bdQOVE8EWCn/s640/BoundForDory.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I made a run to the glass recycler to dump about six months' worth of bottles. How many Irish whiskey bottles can you find? Also fancy vermouth. Kind of embarrassing. It's my guests that drink all those. Really.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygnPMYtUDg9SWVWU1iryTGW05JIRtT6H4ARmaRt37mqkcaT_RJs5JI-wseU0XC0n6AHhnAc1M1d_sOAgC0NJ0ewq1bxjz9QsmMlDShT_uY9KU6kCJVPdUti55WThzd9IW91sRLjehov6n/w512-h384/IMG_4944.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="512" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then I was off downriver rowing a big yellow raft for Canyon Explorations. I saw a couple feral goats. Unfortunately they were in close proximity to some bighorn sheep, and domestic critters give the bighorns pneumonia. So I turn them in to the feds. Bye bye.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDNfgpbieKcGysdobev-_BqU-XWwuGX7Oq8VPI-Yy0n6Oo23-hXYqg7B5WwhdSybGZ70REVRjUa1pYzaqgo58H587C8zas6q5TU9MplK2j4tSp-5hcRfh-JXtAX9jFprRgh9J2wYa0TM5/s1212/4189CEEE-E41A-4A63-A51B-8B559979C25B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1212" data-original-width="1212" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDNfgpbieKcGysdobev-_BqU-XWwuGX7Oq8VPI-Yy0n6Oo23-hXYqg7B5WwhdSybGZ70REVRjUa1pYzaqgo58H587C8zas6q5TU9MplK2j4tSp-5hcRfh-JXtAX9jFprRgh9J2wYa0TM5/w512-h512/4189CEEE-E41A-4A63-A51B-8B559979C25B.jpeg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Covid boating was a bit odd, but not that hard to do. LOTS of hand washing and masks anywhere near the kitchen. No close gatherings, and so forth. Man it was hot. Too hot for this old boy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisj2ypCzPHUzYBUR0YKxeu4TGNSp6PmK00yDzpAP0thN58JE87Bwo6FAhMdAZzQMQa1vrl1C6-LIJc3soN9J1_t_4GkSd7_Uuj7TyA9mTUER-ZXTNNu1GTPeOEauPI0RpH02JPrprsC1SG/s2048/IMG_4849.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisj2ypCzPHUzYBUR0YKxeu4TGNSp6PmK00yDzpAP0thN58JE87Bwo6FAhMdAZzQMQa1vrl1C6-LIJc3soN9J1_t_4GkSd7_Uuj7TyA9mTUER-ZXTNNu1GTPeOEauPI0RpH02JPrprsC1SG/s640/IMG_4849.jpeg" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div>I got a cute new mask and thought it would amuse folks, but most folks didn't seem to notice I was wearing one. They thought I looked the same.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bQXJfBPL4fVJ16OmWILxo2KoIVDu0-dM46MkF2CRZ2iExnm10XQQMGQW_XsaXE-tUzX03BB4Jm0xskMClLJchfzkphcemvacIvuxjVcYMJfh2k3Wqc5CWo-K-fPnyRhSYVrhQov8zIxA/s2048/IMG_5052.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bQXJfBPL4fVJ16OmWILxo2KoIVDu0-dM46MkF2CRZ2iExnm10XQQMGQW_XsaXE-tUzX03BB4Jm0xskMClLJchfzkphcemvacIvuxjVcYMJfh2k3Wqc5CWo-K-fPnyRhSYVrhQov8zIxA/w512-h384/IMG_5052.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My best buds Andy and RJ came to town for a week or two to knock out a few Doryaks and work the kinks out of production for this winter's output. (Demand is growing!) Andy is doing one as a stitch-and-glue and may have plans for sale once he gets the bugs worked out. RJ and Dawn are building traditional. Spooky and Peekaboo wait patiently outside as their sisters gestate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfTva0vDtrKEhar3al4DUMAOZxuC0mq7tNG0k2U7oQ9bOfHbfx4bcBuJheS15LzWABsIGSsjpKxXbkjAnz5tgZ5CGhN0Oa7MwT2H6jVyFdy2Bu2IF3MsUm8hMQ7lbG3fVNPdv-yyTacgO/s2048/IMG_4950.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfTva0vDtrKEhar3al4DUMAOZxuC0mq7tNG0k2U7oQ9bOfHbfx4bcBuJheS15LzWABsIGSsjpKxXbkjAnz5tgZ5CGhN0Oa7MwT2H6jVyFdy2Bu2IF3MsUm8hMQ7lbG3fVNPdv-yyTacgO/w512-h384/IMG_4950.jpeg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJaLN3pBD8tL8pDi29th_Ff3YJBxM2vfhk1Sd_R4KfRtP4R0Q5tb19uDNQD6QjuVst5Tb0VTLxJzrSkwHd06lF2mS0WS16ZabFFJ6ASbu27S6yAe_tVJIol_bF9oLTzoxFYMP26v8VpUsl/s2048/IMG_4953.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We are revamping the wiring system for the bilge pumps, cutting in spare oar slots, and doing a bit of fine tuning here and there.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My current project is working with <a href="https://shinecreativeindustries.com" target="_blank">Shine Creative Industries </a>to create a cool website for the Boatworks and blog. It'll be a month or more but hopefully it will provide a good searchable showcase for all our shenanigans.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lastly, what with all the Doryak publicity I'm getting a lot of queries. Here are some answers:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No, I don't have plans for sale. We design them and loft them full scale and build right from the lofting. So I really don't have a way to sell plans. However, Andy Hutchinson at <a href="http://hddories.net" target="_blank">High Desert Dories</a> does sell plans and, as I mentioned above, he hopes to crunch the Doryak into something salable in plan form. Stay tuned. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yes, we will be making them for sale as of late fall/winter. They'll run around $6,000 or more depending on how many extras you want.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No, it usually doesn't make them much cheaper if you come and help. It actually slows us down and I spend more time teaching and supervising than I do producing the goods. Although we sometimes do that as an option, we are getting more hesitant. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It makes more sense to either A) build professionally, or B) teach. And until I find a way to get affordable liability insurance, I have no plans to start teaching again in my shop. Much as I really enjoy teaching, the lack of insurance makes me a little too twitchy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That said, Gary stopped by yesterday after a Grand Canyon trip to show off this boat. He took three of my courses a couple years ago (when I was still brave enough to do it without coverage) --bronzecasting, oarmaking, and building the Briggs boat. 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We are still out of work. So we got in the car and went boating. First, up to Glen Canyon for a night, with the set of mini boats for some portraits.</div>
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Then we took the Doryaks and set out for a tour of the West. Here's an homage to Ed Abbey in Cisco.<br />
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And on north to the White River--a tributary of the Green I've often heard is canoeable. Turns out it'll take a full sized dory as well. Andy brought a Briggs, RJ brought a classic SportYak, and we took the Doryaks. A lot of cattle and even more sheep. But the scenery was sublime. </div>
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Next up: the Upper Colorado, from just below Gore Canyon to just above Glenwood Canyon. RJ dropped out and Coop joined us in a kayak. A lot of road traffic, but again, the scenery was magnificent and the rapids kind of exciting at times.<br />
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Acres of iris.<br />
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Coop rowing Rodeo Rapid in Spooky.<br />
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Cocktail hour in a millennium-old Rocky Mountain Juniper.<br />
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Then I dropped Dawn of in the remarkable City of Rocks for a week of climbing while I headed north to the upper Salmon River.<br />
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Willow joined me for an overnight from North Fork to Corn Creek. And we found out that in just the right exploding wave, a Doryak will actually invert.<br />
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Next we had to go see how Doryaks fare in the ocean. Here we are at Sunset Bay, where Buzz Holmstrom test-drove his first boat.</div>
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Then even deeper into the roots of these drift boats that have overwhelmed my life for the last four decades. The McKenzie, where they were first invented. My good friend Roger Fletcher hooked us up with Aaron Helfrich, grandson of one of the original drift boat creators, Prince Helfrich. The Helfrich clan still dominate the drift boat world here and on the Middle Fork, rowing open boats in crazy water. We were technically volunteers in a lamprey survey, but we felt like pampered passengers. What a treat to see a third-generation career drift boatman row.<br />
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Up to Olallie to run the Class III run in Doryaks. Olallie Creek is quite spectacular in its own right.<br />
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As usual, we were too busy rowing to take pictures of the craziness. But here's a camp shot of the wild blue water.<br />
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Doryaks parked next to their cousin, the aluminum McKenzie drift boat.<br />
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Roger met us at Leaburg Lake where we took out and got a tour of the future McKenzie River Interpretive Center, based in the old hatchery. Here is the room once commandeered by Keith Steele to build dories. This is the birthplace of Martin Litton's original fleet, and the first Oregon drift boats to visit the Colorado River. Deep heritage here.<br />
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Then over to the Coquille, Buzz Holmstrom's home river. We floated the boats for a couple hours while we loaded a few thousand dollars worth of Port Orford cedar on the trailer to build more boats. Holy wood.<br />
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Here's the mill, a few miles up the creek from Coquille.<br />
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It was finally time to head home. But not without a night at Bandon Beach.<br />
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And a walk in the redwoods, the ancient giants.<br />
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Five thousand miles and a month later we got back home to Flagstaff. The grand test of the Doryaks could not have gone any better. I think we'll keep 'em. On Thursday I head to Lees Ferry for my first Grand Canyon trip since Covid tweaked our world. <br />
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I'll close with my favorite Mary Oliver poem:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me. Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and your heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen to me. There is life without love. It is not worth a bent penny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a dead dog nine days unburied. When you hear, a mile away and still out of sight, the churn of the water as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the sharp rocks – when you hear that unmistakable pounding – when you feel the mist on your mouth and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls plunging and steaming – then row, row for your life toward it.</i></span>brdfrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464899918729609363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850864763453549626.post-63621738780832409692020-05-18T21:29:00.001-07:002020-05-18T21:32:34.688-07:00Quarantinis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Wow, this quarantine thing has really disconnected me from the passage of time. But I've gotta say, I've never been much busier, or much more relaxed. Good thing I was already easing into retirement. So what have I done? Well, Dawn and I stare out the window a lot in the morning. These are some of our visitors.</div>
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Speaking of windows, they hadn't been cleaned in quite some time. Okay, years. Okay, maybe decades. Dawn put her climbing skills to work.<br />
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I purged the closet, throwing out clothes that don't really fit or hadn't been worn in years. Okay, decades.</div>
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We've made quite a few expeditions into the woods and out into the cinder hills.<br />
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We finally finished the last of the mini boats. Powell boats are insanely labor intensive.<br />
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I'm going to miss these sweet little boats.<br />
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The annual Guides Training Seminar near Lee's Ferry was cancelled due to Covid, so we did a virtual one via Zoom. This is me doing my presentation on Bert Loper's Boats. It should be online somewhere soon.</div>
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Dawn decided it would be fun to have quarter-scale dories for a bird bath and garden. Here's the strongback.<br />
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But we needed to replace the deck before we could install the new boats. The old deck lasted thirty-five years, so hopefully this one will outlive me.<br />
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The first day of my river season: launch day for my first cancelled Grand Canyon trip. But it was a pretty good day nonetheless.</div>
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Dawn needed a rock wall in her front yard. This is me resting after a day's work moving giant rocks. Lava, as you may or may not know, is ten percent heavier than granite. </div>
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Dawn doing the transom art on the new boats.<br />
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Bird Disneyland on the new deck.<br />
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A nod to Glen and Bessie Hyde with a sweep scow made of old deck parts.</div>
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Wow. I just got home from a 15-day Grand Canyon trip to encounter the Scared New World. I should not have left y'all in charge of things when I was gone. But now that we are all locked in our little cages for the foreseeable future, it's a good time to catch up. </div>
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Back in February we finished up Papa Bear, the new king-sized Briggs boat for Canyon Explorations--a twin to Shaman's Gallery, that we built a year ago. Here we are glassing gutters and decks.</div>
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Gluing up scarfed ash gunwales.<br />
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And bolting those gunwales onto the boat.<br />
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We took a break to dress the place up for the annual Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival party. Mini boats got a display above the band stand.<br />
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Hatch lids getting glassed the eve prior to the party.</div>
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Peter McLaughlin and Chris Brashears tearing it up.<br />
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Back to work on Papa Bear. Pulling tape.<br />
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Milling out the oar stands.<br />
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The Doryaks came in for a little love before our training trip.<br />
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Papa Bear awaiting a ride to the warehouse.</div>
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But since we had almost two weeks to kill before launch day, we banged out another boat. Chet and Kat came in to assist in banging together a standard Briggs.<br />
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We try to leave about an inch extra above the designed gunwales so we can adjust and cut to what looks perfect. This time we added a little over half an inch to bow and stern. No two are ever quite the same. As it should be.<br />
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About 150 teeny ribs got made, boiled, and bent in. The spacing is scaled off a remnant of one of the Nellie Powell, one of the 1871 Powell boats.</div>
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The Barbies taking the hull out for a test run.</div>
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Time out for a test float/ test flip of the Doryaks, and a test run of Cricket's little Jiminy, the wee motorboat. Sorry not to get any good shots of the festivities.<br />
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Interview time in our silly little boats.<br />
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The day before the river trip, I found out we were taking both Doryaks, but I only had one set of oars. Time for some speed-whittling!</div>
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And off we go, with a huge fleet of craft including four Fretwater boats.<br />
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Dawn and I stayed aboard Peekaboo most nights. Such a cozy little thing.<br />
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Cricket and Dawn in Papa Bear.<br />
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The Doryaks rocked it. Not a single flip on the whole trip, and we ran big at every opportunity.<br />
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I should get some good action shots of the Doryaks before long, but none just yet. I'll close with an emblematic campfire shot, summarizing man's relationship with our planet.<br />
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Stay healthy, stay rested, and we'll see you at the other end of the tunnel. Remember: Worrying never fixed yesterday or changed tomorrow, but it sure fucked up a lot of todays.brdfrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464899918729609363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-850864763453549626.post-78047443624880715032020-02-07T09:50:00.002-08:002020-05-18T21:33:53.569-07:00McKenzie Dory Boatbuilding class<span style="background-color: #ea9999;">Note: This class, and the entire season at WoodenBoat School, has been cancelled due to Covid-19. Hope to see you next year!</span><br />
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I am excited to offer the McKenzie boat class again at WoodenBoat School in Maine this July. It's perfect for someone who really wants to build one but doesn't know how or where to start, or is intimidated by the array of skill sets necessary to do the job.<br />
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We will build the Hindman 16' Double-ender with transom.<br />
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We will start by lofting the boat from a table of offsets, correcting, customizing or idealizing as we go. We'll build all the frames, transom and a rolling-bevel stem. Scarf all the plywood. Assemble the boat, steam bend and scarf the gunwales, and outfit the boat as a fishing boat. We'll also discuss modifications to turn it into a whitewater dory. On day six we will launch the finished boat and the lucky winner of the raffle will get to take it away for the cost of materials.<br />
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With the skills you learn you'll be able to build most any variation on the classic driftboat at home. And life on the WoodenBoat School campus is flat-out heavenly, situated on Eggemoggin Reach, just a mile or two from where Major Powell spent his final days. In off hours you can row or sail the heritage Woodenboat fleet. Too much fun.<br />
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Here's a link:<br />
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I hope to see some of you there.<br />
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Fun in the boat shop:<br />
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Out to launch:<br />
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A class-built boat on the Kennebec with its lucky winner:<br />
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The wild jumps in scale here have been a bit mind boggling. Here's our tiny 1/6 scale Briggs dory sitting atop the 1/2-length Doryak last week. Today we have a Briggs-plus-25% coming together on the floor. More on that in a minute.</div>
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The detailing on these wee boats is every bit as time consuming as on the big boats.<br />
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Sanding side panels for the Nevills boat.<br />
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Gunwales on the dory.<br />
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Decking the Nevills boat.<br />
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A day off from the models to fix the shattered Skagit. Just a flesh wound.<br />
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The Julius Stone Galloway boat coming together in the foreground.<br />
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The Galloway boat is carvel planked with pine planks on an oak frame.<br />
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Patterning the bulkheads.<br />
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Galloway boat nearing completion. How about those canvas deck covers?<br />
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The Barbies taking the new boats out for a spin.<br />
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And now for the really difficult one--the 21' Powell boat--a carvel built Whitehall boat, oak on oak.<br />
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Pat is grinding the floor and side panels.<br />
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We scarfed the sides up up on our first evening and had most of the ribs built with the bulkheads in.<br />
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Little epoxy hoodoos on the bottom side of the floor panels.<br />
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Wood and Wire put on one hell of a show. Such a treat to be able to host events like this.</div>
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Once they were on we rolled her up. She's a big one!<br />
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Tomorrow we will cast all the bronze hardware for the boat. I spent a while trying to come up with a better way to slice the huge ingots. Didn't find one. These are cut off in my chop saw. Heavens what a sound.</div>
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And one really big boat. Here's the speed boat that made an attempt on the Grand Canyon record this week. Six sliding seat stations, a cockpit for the steersmen, and a pad for one person to nap between shifts. Unfortunately he low flows did not allow their heroic 38-hour marathon attempt to break any of the records. But they had a flawless clean run and had a great time.</div>
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Back in the shop, poor Cricket fell victim to an irresistible offer on Craigslist: a Glen-L Peewee. It's the cutest little motorboat you ever saw, and came with two 1940s Johnson Sea Horse motors. Stay tuned--we should have her up and running before long.<br />
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We got the hatches on Spooky hinged and latched, then rolled her over to begin her paint job. We are trying out the inverse of Peekaboo's pattern and are loving it.<br />
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While the paint was drying we began a series of 1/6-scale models for the Powell Museum in Page. We are starting with the boat we know best: the Briggs Grand Canyon Dory. Here is Cricket affixing the ribs to our adorable little strong back.<br />
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Fine tuning a side-panel.<br />
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With the panel shape determined, we form two of them and glue her up.<br />
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My full flock of lofting ducks crushing the floor to the mini-Briggs.<br />
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And on with the decks.<br />
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Lovable. And laughable.<br />
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We are going to replicate the paint job on the original Briggs boat, the Emerald Mile, as she looked before her big crash.<br />
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Just after Thanksgiving a cluster of Martin Litton's old dory crew from the '70s and '80s gathered in southern California for his widow Esther's hundredth birthday. Esther at 100 is quite a bit sharper than I was at fifty. It was a marvelous and moving celebration.</div>
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Back in Flagstaff we hosted another house concert--Keith Greeninger put on a powerful event. A truly amazing entertainer.<br />
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Down in the shop Tim Porten brought in his McKenzie boat Eileen for decks. We hit her hard and five days later sent her home decked, guttered, hatched, hinged, and latched.<br />
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Then we set to work on Doryak 2.0--a slight modification of last month's Peekaboo. This one is a couple inches taller with a bit more rake to the bow. A few other small tweaks, but quite similar otherwise to Doryak 1.0.<br />
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We motored up into Black Canyon for a few days and took the new boat out for a spin. Her name is Spooky Gulch--the sister canyon to Peekaboo. Both canyons are tributaries to the Escalante and getting trampled my cattle and two-legged creatures under BLM Multiple Abuse management.<br />
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Hippos kissing at sunrise.<br />
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Andy and RJ rounded out the fleet with their vintage Briggs boats.</div>
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Spooky handles beautifully, as we had hoped. Her added height makes her a bit more wobbly when unloaded, but a few cases of beer for ballast will fix that.</div>
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We rowed south from Walter's Camp on low water, pausing at the occasional sandbar for camp. Turns out Spooky is just right for tenting as well.<br />
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A Happy New Decade to you all. Let's take the next ten years and see if we can turn this species around again and get on a positive course for the planet and all its inhabitants.<br />
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We headed down the old San Juan that afternoon. There were just four of us, so we could only row four boats.<br />
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Peekaboo and Bernie were so light we dragged them up into camp for furniture.<br />
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Turns out Peekaboo makes a swell bed for one or two people.<br />
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There sure are a lot of traces of our Puebloan forebears up there.<br />
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Oops. Hungry trees tried to eat the Juan.<br />
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Such beauty.<br />
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Brr. Chilly willy mornings.<br />
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As usual, the camping was as much fun as the boating. Juan disassembled into camp chairs, cocktail table, kitchen tables, and a lean-to to camp out of the dew.<br />
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Upon returning from our Glen Canyon outing, my shop crew all went on holiday for a few weeks. I spent the time puttering about the house and working on Peekaboo.We kicked off our winter house concert series with the return of one-man blues band Nathan James. As expected, he put on a fabulous show for a full house. </div>
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I'm not quite sure what size oars Peekaboo wants. Probably eight-footers, but I went ahead and built some eight-and-a-halfs. I figure I can cut them down a bit if they seem too long. It occurred to me that rather than carry a hundred clamps to the oar bench pen the far side of the shop, I cou.d just glue them up on top of the clamp rack table. </div>
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And then the fun part--carving the shafts and blades. I cannot tell you how much fun it is to use my fancy Lie-Nielsen planes. Such fine tools. Reminds me of a quote.<br />
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Stitching on her moccasins.<br />
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On the other side of the shop I whittled away at decking.<br />
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Cricket and Justin finally returned and we set to the final touches. Tracing the name onto the bow. </div>
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Time for a little crew vacation after two days in the shop. Heading up to the San Juan and Westwater to try out Peekaboo and give some of the other boats some exercise. Mere words can to express how excited we are to take adorable little Peekaboo through her paces on some serious whitewater.<br />
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Grand Canyon River Guides, our nonprofit gang of boatfolk and fans, has two gatherings each year: the multi-day Guide Training Seminar at Marble Canyon, and a fall meet somewhere. This year it was at my boat shop. It was originally going to be on November 1, the Day of the Dead. But schedules forced it ahead a day to Halloween. So we combined the holidays.</div>
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Margeaux and I brainstormed on what to do, then threw it all in Lynn Hamilton's lap to manifest. She hooked us up with Deadwood, a great local band, Maggie the face painter, and Nate with his Chili Box Food Truck. Several of us assembled on the 30th and began dragging boats out and building ofrendas (shrines to those who have passed on). It's a little shocking to realize how many boatmen have now run their last rapid, but we conjured their spirits for the party.</div>
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The kids' craft table drew more grownups than children, painting skulls and such.<br />
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And a huge and wonderful assortment of the river community came together. Maybe something about the beauty of the candles and decorations, or the sentiment of the shrines to our fallen ones, or just being all together--a combination no doubt--made it one of the most delicious gatherings I can remember. I love our community.</div>
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For several years now we've been talking about making the ultimate personal-sized dory--something akin to the classic SportYak that the Belknap clan popularized in the 1960s and '70s with their row-your-own river trip. "Why should the boatmen have all the fun?" they asked. SportYaks have faded from the scene, but the concept was a good one. Randy Fabreze built a line of small dories called Ouzels in the early '80s but they failed to catch on. Some have said it's just not a viable boat.</div>
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Nevertheless we persisted. I messed around with some lines in July, and Monday morning we drew it up, fiddled with the lines a bit, and began building the Doryak. It's modeled on the classic Briggs Grand Canyon Dory because why wouldn't you? About 1/2 the length, 3/4 the width, and somewhere around 2/3 the height. One of the parameters was that you had to be able to get both sides out of a 4x12 sheet of plywood, and make the floor out of a 4x8 sheet. Economy and ease of construction are important. Here are the frames going together on the lofting table that afternoon.</div>
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The stem is insane, flaring out at 60 degrees at the top and 49 at the bottom. Thats an 11 degree rolling bevel--meaning the sides converge at 120 degrees at the top and 98 at the bottom. Nutty. A veritable snowplow. Here's Cricket carving the roll.</div>
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As we do with all new designs, we built a strongback.<br />
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Then we bent on the side panel blanks to mark them for shape.<br />
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We cut two identical panels and drilled the screw holes.<br />
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To our astonishment, she went together without too much of a fight.<br />
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An amazing two-day sprint. Definitely cause for a celebration and a haircut at 2:30 AM.<br />
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On Wednesday we put on the bottom.<br />
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Thursday we bolted own the gunwales and made some rudimentary fore and aft decks.<br />
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At 10:00 Thursday evening we loaded her atop two other dories for a weekend jaunt in Glen Canyon. Here we are at daybreak Friday, pausing for breakfast at Cameron Trading Post.</div>
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The usual suspects showed up and six dories headed upstream. I towed the Doryak, which Cricket has named Peekaboo.</div>
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Peekaboo! Andy Hutchinson and Cricket got a few photos...</div>
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Everyone that tried her out smiled hard and said the same thing: "I want one."</div>
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Three's kind of a crowd, but it still works. The thing is really fast, stops dead in a half a stroke, spins 180 with a nudge, and is just incredibly fun to putter around in. (Thanks to Harlan Taney for the next three photos.)</div>
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Then it got really silly. We just had to know what would happen if we put a motor on her. I held down the bow while Cricket fired up the 6hp Tohatsu. Justin made me put a life jacket on. With the motor at an idle, Cricket gingerly shifted into forward. A little power. Yes. More. Yes! Full throttle. YAASSSS!</div>
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And not only that, you can spin it in circles at full throttle and the water stays in the river. It's nuts. Justin tried a solo run, full throttle, abandoning the tiller and clinging to the bow, leaning to turn. That worked too. I do not think I have laughed that hard in many years. We may be onto something.</div>
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Back in the shop today we pulled off the gunwales and framed in all the hatchwork, cut the gutters, spiled the decks, fastened them on, and glassed the seams. Now she just needs a footwell, hatch lids, and paint. Proper Dory Colors, of course.</div>
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My traveling boatbuilding mania is over for the summer and I got to wind down with a couple great river trips in my old dory Cataract. Here's a peculiar sign as you approach Lees Ferry. I'm pretty sure the view is doing just fine.</div>
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Cataract catching a little lunchtime shade.<br />
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The tranquility of Kanab Creek.<br />
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The reason we bring beer cans on the river. For this purpose we have to drain them.<br />
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Between trips a party of old dory folk, about to send a 100th birthday greeting to Esther Litton.<br />
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Then it's back upriver for Dory Moon's most preposterous trip yet: a 23-day trip from Glen Canyon Dam to Pearce Ferry. Logistics ranged from impractical to improbable to simply implausible.<br />
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Ryann, who spent a year or more assembling the incredible Glen Canyon exhibit up in Green River, gets her first look at Glen Canyon Dam and sends it her best.<br />
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The classic Horseshoe Bend photo from river level.<br />
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Glen Canyon Rocks.<br />
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Pausing at Elves Chasm.<br />
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Tim and the Great Unconformity.<br />
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Deer Creek Falls. 26 rafts, 9 dories, 3 kayaks, and 2 duckies. Perhaps the greatest October cluster of all time.<br />
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The obvious yin to the yang of this summer's Viking boat course would obviously be Japanese River Boat building. So it was off to Seattle after a river trip. Here's Rainier from the window of the flying machine.</div>
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And a stump-eating monster.<br />
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Here is the world's largest Sitka spruce. There are a lot of nice oars inside of this, but I hope they stay there.<br />
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There's something about the ocean shore that pulls at the heart.<br />
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What a fun word to say, especially without engaging your vocal cords.<br />
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Here is the Elwha River, rapidly recovering from its former dam.<br />
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The first thing I ran into at the Northwest Maritime Center was another of Jay Smith's Viking faerings. Small world.<br />
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Douglas Brooks is a wonderful teacher and a superb storyteller. His tales of the harshness of Japanese apprenticing are a bit daunting. He has now worked under several ancient masters, each being the last of their line. Mostly in silence. "The teacher refuses to teach. But the apprentice is required to learn." He said that the answer to many of his questions were one of two things, meaning either "Watch—and you will learn." or "Wait—and you will learn." But in as much as we didn't have six years to wait, watch, and learn, Douglas actually taught.<br />
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By the way, his book on Japanese Boat Building is amazing, as are his adventures. Check him out at <a href="http://www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com/" target="_blank">Douglas Brooks Boatbuilding.</a><br />
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Once the floor planks are fitted we have to edge-nail them together. Which involves chiseling many beveled notches.<br />
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Once the nails are in, we plug the notches, then chisel in little bow-ties to make sure things never come apart.<br />
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Riley, who runs the programs at NMC, makes us a bunch more nails.<br />
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BFNs. Big Flat Nails.</div>
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The beveled ends of the floor get splined on and braced in place.<br />
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Heaviness in the center gives it a bit of rocker.<br />
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A Shinto blessing of the hull.<br />
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Outside I discover Amos Burg's old boat, which he sailed down around the Horn way back when. In 1938 Amos was the first person to take and inflatable boat down the Green and Colorado Rivers. Shades of Grand Canyon.<br />
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We put the sides in place. The Japanese use few clamps, but many props and wedges.</div>
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Once the fit is near perfect we spike the sides on with Riley's BFNs.<br />
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More fun joinery as we put in seats and thwarts.<br />
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Cleaning up the bottom.<br />
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Note the oar notch in the stern for sculling.<br />
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A dedication with salt and sake.<br />
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Douglas demonstrating the sculling process. I tried it as well but had to sit down or fall down. I need a bit of practice.<br />
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Much like the Viking faering, I don't think I really need a Shinano River boat for Grand Canyon. But I am certain the physical and processes we engaged in will color the way I do things back in the boat shop. </div>
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Once in place, I traced it through onto the hideous yellow decks. I sure wish old Bert had picked a nicer color.</div>
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I also wish my hands were as steady as Vladimir's.<br />
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He did the GRAND CANYON placards earlier this summer.<br />
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Pat came off river for a few days and we dialed in the hatch lids and a few other details.<br />
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We took it out to the lake and by golly she floated. And Bert was right in his theory that arching the decks would make it easier to roll up. We were able to pull it upright from the lake without having to climb up on it.<br />
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During the building process we realized not only that this year would be Bert Loper 's 150th birthday, but that I would be launching a river trip at Lees Ferry that very day, July 31. So we took the <i>Grand Canyon</i> up to the Ferry and tried her out on moving water. Bert had set the boat up with a broad stern and a motor hatch that doubled as a transom. Much like Oregon's Rapid Robert, actually. And she motors like crazy.<br />
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I baked Bert a cake. A lemon cake, to go with the yellow boat.<br />
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I lost a bet with myself that we couldn't get all 150 candles lit. We did. It was kind of like the fire bombing of Dresden. It created its own weather.<br />
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Well, after my river trip (in a dory) I dragged the Loper boat up to Ken Sleight's place outside of Moab. Ken is a dear old friend, my boss in the late 1970s, the model for Ed Abbey's Seldom Seen Slim, an ardent environmentalist, and all around wonderful human. Ever since he saw the wreck of Bert Loper's boat in Grand Canyon in the 1950s, he's been after the National Park Service to salvage and preserve it. Here it is when pulled ashore in 1949.<br />
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So of course it's a bit late for salvaging now, so replicating it was the next best thing. And it was Ken's 90th birthday. It was, I gotta say, a big hit. Here's a shot with Ken in the boat, me behind him, and the brothers Quist: Bob, Richard, and Clair.<br />
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There's another story, though. When the boat was found in 1949, Harry Aleson pulled out a bottle of whiskey and saved it for many years, to be consumed ceremoniously at some boatman's gathering. Well, when Harry finally got married in Glen Canyon, they sent Ken upriver to Hite to get the Bishop. When Ken returned, he realized before he even landed that they'd drunk it without him. That was a lasting sting.</div>
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I found out that it was a fifth of Seagrams 7. Wrapped in the July 6, 1949 Deseret News. So when Ken mentioned to me that there was once bottle of whiskey in the original boat, I rummaged around and sure enough, there was an old fifth of Seagrams 7, wrapped in a (xerox of) the July 6, 1949 Deseret News.</div>
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Mike Dehoff, my co-conspiritor on dory design, brought along the Chub, a 13'6" dory we designed. Man is THAT thing fun. It can carry a huge load and three or four people, and handles like a Mazzeratti. He's going to make more, so get in line if you need one.</div>
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Okay, so it's been a while. A massive computer crash, a few river trips, some travel, and life--they kinda get in the way sometimes. </div>
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Soooo, after I left Novas Scotia I went back to WoodenBoat School and met up with Mike Bridges, my assistant for the Grand Canyon Dory course. Dinner on a stick.</div>
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We got the main bay all set up for our poor, unwitting students.</div>
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And boom. Off we go. Our plan is to loft, build, deck, paint, and float a Briggs Grand Canyon Dory in ten days. Wish us luck. Here we are drawing up the lines, correcting them, and pulling off all the rib dimensions and angles.<br />
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Scarfing up floor and sides.</div>
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Building ribs, sanding and staining them.<br />
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Gluing up a floor.<br />
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Mark Kaufman stopped by with the coolest little motorboat in the Milky Way--A Crandall Midget Flier. He built it from plans in a 1938 Motor Boating magazine. I want this.<br />
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We really did take the weekend off. Mike brought his McKenzie boat, so we took it up and ran the tidal Blue Hill Falls inbound, rowed around the salt pond for a few hours while the tide reversed, then ran the rapid outbound.</div>
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Monday, day six. Back to work. Roll her up, cut the sheer, begin interior framing.<br />
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Framing deck work and cutting in gutters.<br />
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The Mary Day returns and we're for another visit. And a Maine sunset.<br />
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Spiling on the decking.<br />
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Day ten. Raging into a finale. All hardware on.<br />
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We even quit a little early and headed down to the waterfront. We had planned to roll it, but it was cold and rainy. So we rolled it anyhow. Woot woot!<br />
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Will, second from right, won the lottery. He named her the Monongahela.<br />
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Time to head south. Here is Sam Manning's dory. Sam, one of the great boat artists, illustrators, boatmen, a true gentleman, and maybe the world's greatest sculler, passed on a few days earlier. </div>
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I stopped by the open house at the Lie-Nielsen tool factory and ran into Douglas Brooks, who will teach me the art of Japanese Boatbuilding in Port Townsend in August. We'll build one of these wacky boats.<br />
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Can't pass by the Lowell Boat Shop--the Mecca of dorydom.</div>
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I had a nice chat with Graham Mackay, who directs the madness here.<br />
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And out to Gloucester to visit Geno Mondello at his dory shop.<br />
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His chaos makes me feel so at home.<br />
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I spend a couple nights at Jane and Bill's place in the south of Maine--fellow teachers and friends from WoodenBoat School. Jane is a great tour guide. A final visit to the Atlantic Ocean, then back to the desert.</div>
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Five years ago I stopped in at the Shelburne Museum Dory Shop in Nova Scotia. I met Milford Buchanan and we spent a few hours working on a dory. He builds a Shelburne style Banks Dory, which has subtle differences from the Lunenburg and Salisbury dories--the makers of each style quite certain that theirs is the one proper way to build them.</div>
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At the time, Milford had a couple helper/apprentices, but both were older than he, and neither were likely to carry on the process should Milford pass on someday. This year I decided to see if it would be okay for me to go back up and try and get a bit more of his story. Yes, was the response. Come on up.</div>
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Milford had a floor glued up and ready to go when I got there. We set in immediately, using the ancient wooden patterns to lay out the shape of the floor and cut out a great 15 foot long, 3 foot wide lozenge of 1" pine. We then used more old patterns to lay out rib parts, transom, stem, and circle board. </div>
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We cut them on the old 1920s vintage Crescent Universal Wood Worker. It is belt driven with a venerable electric motor, and consists of a 32" band saw, a table saw, a jointer, a router-table, and hole borer (horizontal drill press)--the original Swiss army knife of stationary tools. Milford informed me that this was a new acquisition--that they didn't have that until the shop got electricity back in 1920. </div>
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Here's a complete Shelburne dory.<br />
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And a nest of three. They were built to be nested five or six deep on the decks of schooners, sailed out to the Banks, and dropped overboard where teams of two could trawl for cod.<br />
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This boat was built by one of Milford's predecessors, Sidney Mahaney, who built dories here for over seventy years.<br />
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This is the cradle or "building horse" that has birthed something like 50,000 dories in its 130+ years.<br />
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A pattern for the "circle board", which goes near the top of the inner face of the transom.<br />
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Milford peening on the patented clips, invented here in Shelburne in the 1800s, that allowed them to build rib sections out of short straight pieces of oak rather than have to find natural grown oak or hackmatack tree roots to form the curve. This invention doubled production.</div>
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In the off season Milford is the king of Shelburne whirligigs--made in the shape of dorymen, lobsters, sailboats and so forth. <br />
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Checking the ribs and bottom for proper bevel, so the strakes won't leak.<br />
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Cutting strakes on the Universal Wood Worker.<br />
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Mick, one of Milford's regular volunteers, got back to town a few days after I did. About ten years ago he visited the shop, volunteered to help, and ended up buying a home nearby.<br />
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We got the garboards fit and fastened and were fitting the next strake when my clock ran out. There's a lot more to this story, but it looks like it may be a magazine article, so stay tuned.</div>
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Before I left we took one of the boats out for a spin. They scoot along pretty good, but like all dories, could use a bit of low ballast for stability.<br />
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On the way home I stopped to visit the Lunenburg Dory Shop, but no one was home.<br />
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Cricket headed to Colorado a few minutes after we decked the Loper boat, and the next morning Pat and I flew to Maine to build a faering at WoodenBoat School. Jay Smith, our instructor, said the faering, which means a four-oared boat, was perhaps the Datsun pickup truck of a thousand years ago in Norway. It was the knockabout carry-all transport boat that you couldn't really live without. They still make them in Norway, still do it by eye, and they still look exactly the same. Why change a good thing?</div>
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We set up our fortresses in the campground. Turns out it's a good thing we used the raised platforms. For most of the next two weeks we got torrential rains, flattening my tent a few times. Luckily there's a drier in the Farmhouse a few hundred yards away.<br />
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We cut out fore and aft stems, then cut a keel to match.<br />
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Lovely white oak grain, no?<br />
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Then we made some primitive scarphs joints to fasten them together.<br />
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We used big forged iron spikes and rivets and little else to put the beast together. The blacksmith that makes them sounds like quite a character. Jay quotes him, "I'm a Finn. And I'm a berserker. Don't f*#k with me."<br />
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Prow in the foreground, Farmhouse with student lodging in the background. It's warm and dry in the Farmhouse. Why are we camping?<br />
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Oak knees that Jay harvested for the project. The two big ones closest are for frames in the bow and stern. The other four are oarlocks.<br />
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Jay's world of Viking tools.<br />
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The caulking yarn is made from the long, wiry guard hairs of some strange sheep in England. Wild stuff.<br />
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Fastening on the garboards.<br />
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The caulking string gets soaked in a mix of linseed oil and pine tar, then laid in a small groove in the planking.<br />
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Gene Shaw was our wonderful assistant. We couldn't have done it without him.<br />
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Jay telling us tales of Norse boatbuilding heritage.<br />
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Gene gave a wonderful demonstration of his woodcut printing process one evening. Holy smokes, what an artist.<br />
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My friend and sailing coach Jane coaxed us out to Naskeag Point to watch the sunset.<br />
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It was so pretty we forgot the tide was rising. Oops.<br />
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Cutting in the gain for the next strake.<br />
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I got the idea to make a pair of oars for the faering. Viking oars are as strange as Viking oarlocks. Huge triangular-ish upper looms tapering to a thin spoon blade. But it kept me out of everyone else's way for two days. Here is one of them with the oak oarlock I shaped.</div>
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We finally topped out and Jay showed us how to cut the sheer line down with a broad axe. Yikes.<br />
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We got her done enough to float. A wee bear came by one morning during the build, so the boat got christened<i> Lille Bjorn,</i> which is little bear in Norwegian.<br />
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It was a treat to see her on the water. All of a sudden, instead of a daunting series of tasks to do, we could see the boat for what it was. Mighty pretty.<br />
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One detail I missed in the last post. Turns out Bert was a Seagrams Crown 7 drinker. So we added some to the paint. Seemed like the right thing to do.<br />
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Knocking down the bow post. It's made of part of one of the old boat cradles from Grand Canyon National Park. The cradles held the historic boat collection for several decades--boats from Julius Stone, the Kolb Brothers, and so forth. I'm sure a little magic seeped down into them.</div>
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We made a commitment to quit around 2 yesterday so we could deal with our lives and imminent travel arrangements. But we couldn't stop. We finally got the decks on at 3, toasted Bert and ourselves, left the shop an utter shambles, and stumbed out the door.<br />
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Its continues to amaze me how fast things happen with a good crew of three boatbuilders. We are a bit behind pace for our more typical McKenzie or Rogue dory build, but this boat is a new, unfamiliar design, unfamiliar construction, and we had to build a strongback. All things considered, we're screaming along. </div>
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This morning, Day Four of the build, we ground down and prepared the gigantic 17' x 5' floor for Bert's Boat, and faired the boat to receive it.</div>
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The precision of the screw holes normally necessary for our dory builds is not so important here. For one, the ribs and chines are very wide and hard to miss. Secondly, we are replicating a crudely built boat, created by an 80-year-old feller who built it under a cottonwood tree in Utah with old bent nails and salvaged hardware. Sometimes we just have to say "What would Bert do? He'd probably use cheap deck screws instead of high dollar silicon bronze wood screws. And so we do. Looking at the remains of the original boat, screws, nails and roofing nails are randomly banged into the frame to hold it together. Perfect spacing on our part would be inauthentic. </div>
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Here I am putting in the last floor screw. It's an old rusty one from Bert's original boat that was heading for the river when I rescued it. (So can we call it a restoration now?) And the screwdriver was given to me by Rolf Holmstrom many years ago when I was planning to replicate Buzz's boat. "You'll need this," Rolf said, handing me the old Yankee screwdriver. "It's the one Buzz used."</div>
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On with the ghastly yellow paint. Bert's was likely a mix of old paint cans given to him by Greenriver locals. Ours unfortunately had to be purchased at full whack, as none of the mis-tinted paint was close to the appropriate color. This hue is called Fuzzy Duckling.<br />
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The plywood, however, is top dollar marine ply. But so was Bert's. He wrote a nice letter to the Harbor Plywood Company, from whom he bought the wood for his 1939 boat. They were so charmed they gave him the wood for the cost of freight. I need to work on my letter writing..<br />
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Hoping to get the decks and hatches on tomorrow, as July has few opportunities for the crew to get together again. We'll see how far we get--we need to shut down early to head for our various destinations--Cricket to Colorado, Pat and I to Maine to build a Viking Faering. </div>
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Bert Loper died at his oars in Grand Canyon just shy of his 80th birthday. His companions caught his boat several miles downstream and pulled it up on the bank, where it remained as a memorial to the Grand Old Man of the Colorado. </div>
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But the elements have not been kind and 70 years later little remains of Bert's <i>Grand Canyon.</i></div>
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It seemed like as good a time as any to build a replica before there is nothing left. Using photographs, correspondence, reports, journals, and some measurements Andy Hutchinson and I took fifteen years ago, Cricket and I were able to pull together what we think are a pretty accurate set of lines.</div>
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This week we seized the opportunity of Cricket, Pat and I all being off river and got started. Monday we began building ribs and built a strongback.<br />
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On Tuesday we finished the ribs, bulkheads, bow post and transom and began hanging them on the strongback.<br />
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Today we installed the inner chine and a sort of inner gunwale.<br />
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Then we patterned the side panels, cut two of them and screwed them on. The floor is massive--five feet wide and seventeen feet long. Fifty-six feet of scarf cutting to assemble the beast.<br />
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Not bad for three days' work. We'll see how much farther we can get in the next day or so, then it's off to Maine for five weeks of serious boat fun. So blog posts will be even more infrequent I am afraid.<br />
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But to tide you over until later this summer, here are a couple nice videos that came out recently about Cricket and I and the boatworks:</div>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/Ml3WXWF0ciA" target="_blank">Faces of the Canyon: Meet Amy Jane "Cricket"</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=563nmr-zVjs&t=123s" target="_blank">Art of the Outdoors</a></div>
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Three segments on Arizona craft folk--I show up just before minute 12.</div>
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And for those who missed it, here's one that came out last year:</div>
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<a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2312051/boatmaker" target="_blank">The Boatmaker</a></div>
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