A spring break road trip down to San Francisco with the wife and kids. My wife plans the itinerary and it does not include boats. If I pushed it, I could probably squeeze a stop in here or there but it would always be under the shadow of a stopwatch. “How much...
A trip to the Blue Ox Millworks I had stumbled onto the Blue Ox on Youtube some years ago. Eric Hollinbeck is a Vietnam vet who dealt with his own PTSD issues by retreating into a secluded corner of a Eureka California industrial park. There he took a deep interest in...
https://youtu.be/S6OT-IRtCHc A Qayaq for a Museum of Stories Museums began as collections of a particular person’s fetish. While the largest of these collections have been largely nationalized, there are still a healthy assortment of personal museums around the world,...
Swimming Scow Re-design Part 1 I’ve certainly expounded on the value of model making before but I’ll stress it again.In round bottom craft, a half model is usually the go to and I would say it will suffice in delivering a sense of shape and perhaps even dimensional...
https://youtu.be/qhcPSfrmVXc Leathering Oars One of the things that I have always found fascinating about wooden boatbuilding is how many different material manipulation disciplines it pulls you into. Of course there is the woodworking itself but coming right up...
