This morning Kristen and I bought the remaining hardware and installed it. We settled on a deep rust color for the hull, which should go wel...

I got off the river on Saturday, laid about in a coma on Sunday, then hit the boatshop hard for the last three days. Zeke punched in for all...

I took the day off punting yesterday to get AzRA's dory Wesley ready to go on the river with us this week. But today it was back to the...

Big day in the boatshop. We started by cutting some bizarrely eccentric chine boards in a wacky jig on the table saw. It actually worked fir...

Wild Rivers Expeditions of Bluff Utah, the foremost (and only real) San Juan River outfitter since 1957, has asked me to build a replica of ...

My new little project seems to have the same problem my shin did earlier this summer: Some little bugs got into the wound and set up shop. I...

The  Great Thumb  was born the  Betty Boop  around 1967. She was built by Keith Steele in Leaburg, Oregon for actor Ronn Hayes. Steele built...

My friend Allen Wilson up in Gold Beach, Oregon stumbled across a historic boat a couple years ago. The Betty Boop was built in the late 19...

An unfortunate boat in the woods in Ithaca, New York. Ships of Burning Man The Christina was really big. Th...