All Things Boaty
Designs, Festival, Raids, Projects, Ideas
I buy my first set of boat-building plans
Back in 1992, when I SHOULD have been focusing on my first year of graduate school, I decide that if I don't decide on a boat design I'll go crazy. So I purchased a set of plans from quirky, respected, Aussie-now-Scottish boat designer Iain Oughtred. I fell in love...
I steal a book from the library
OK, I have something to get off my chest. When I was 15 I found a book at the library that changed my life. It was called 53 Boats you can Build, and I read it all summer. In fact, I paid the replacement value to the library because I just couldn't part with it. I...
Port Townsend Wood Boat Fest 2017
I love the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival so much! When I moved to the Pacific Northwest I fell in love with this town with its boat traditions: the smell of pine tar and sawdust, the Port Townsend Sails sail loft (still incredible even if Carol Hasse is retired),...
Final stringers, and a killer whale in the shop!
My friend David came to visit and helped me laminate the final, top-most "sheer" string in place... we're ready for planking! But we built a George Dyson baidarka years ago, and my son is twelve and wants to go on an overnight paddle with me to Blake Island, so I had...