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Catching up with the traditional boat blogosphere - recent stuff from some peers

I have so engaged in designing and building that I haven’t been on the computer as much in the PMs. I have clearly been missing out on what some of our traditional boat peeps have been putting up. In case you missed it directly, here is some stuff to check out:

Indigenous Boats
Bob over at Indigenous [...]

Nice recent piece on drift boats

Those who fly-fish (I don’t) and want to do it like the classy folk of the American West should check out this nice piece from Vida, Oregon about the McKenzie River Wooden Boat Festival. The piece quotes “class” expert Roger Fletcher, who I wrote about a couple years back:

The combination of beauty and usability [...]

The Center for Wooden Boats – Part 1: Sailing the Cape Ann Dory Q’ONA

I was in Seattle for business last week, which allowed me to make a pilgrimage to the Center for Wooden Boats, a place so cool I cannot contain it to a single post, nor even two. In fact, friends, a roughly two-and-a half-hour visit gave me four interesting posts to lay out for you. [...]

Cuttyhunk for Memorial Day – boats, but no boating

I got out to Cuttyhunk Island for Memorial Day to open the house there. No boats to play with, but I did get a chance to snap a few pics. Enjoy!

Happy birthday Lowell’s Boat Shop!

Nice article in the Newburyport (MA) Daily News on Lowell’s Boat Shop, which turns 215 – that would be two hundred and fifteen years old – on May 5. Not impressed yet? Chew on this: This makes it the oldest continuously operating boat shop in the U S of A. Not [...]

Roger Fletcher and the river boats of the American West

There is logic to this, but I won’t get into it. Suffice it to say that I had recently been thinking about the wooden dories and river boats indigenous to the American West. I don’t know much about these boats and have never been in one, so I don’t think about them much [...]

The Wooden Dory – another blog in the family

I ran across a new (to me) blog in our little circle: “The Wooden Dory – Dedicated To The World’s Best Wooden Boat”. It is small and gets infrequent attention, but I hope that will improve. Time was when I would have backed the subtitle wholeheartedly, at least for small boats. [...]

Christmas tree day – time for the return of my favorite ornaments

Holiday time – its Christmas for us – means the annual pulling out of our set of Christmas tree ornaments, some of which go back many years. I never think about them during the year; it is always a surprise to open the boxes and find what is there. The other day this [...]

My first boat – a Gloucester Light Dory

I was 16 and she was a Gloucester Light Dory, which is just a gorgeous design. The lines are amazing and she was beautiful to row. I am particularly proud of the transom, which my dad helped me do with leftover mahogany and finish bright. Same with the breasthook.

Of course I was [...]