I can’t help but post a few more pictures of the skin on frame guide boats, see yesterday’s post for details. Looking at all this again has me pondering a plan set. It probably wouldn’t be a beginner-friendly video course like most of what I do, but it’s not a beginner-friendly project in the...
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The skin on frame Adirondack guide boat
Yesterday I mentioned my skin on frame Adirondack guide boats so I thought I’d dredge up a few old photos. I built my first pair of these following the lines from the Virginia in the book the Adirondack guide boat by Kenneth and Helen Durant. My girlfriend at the time was a computer drafter...
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Video: Ant building the skin-on-frame Adirondack Guideboat
Today I’m re-posting this great video made by Ant Mace of Shipshape Boatworks who builds our designs and many others in Bristol, England. Right now Ant is building a skin on frame Adirondack guide boat which is always cool to watch come together. Seaworthy, beautiful, lightweight, and addictive to row, I’ve gotten many inquiries...
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Sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: Salmon fishing from the guide boat
We’re sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos from the last 15 years while we build the tiny house. (Check out @actuallytiny). For five years of my life I spent a significant amount of time trolling for salmon in my Adirondack Guide boats. Putting my back into it felt like an honest way to...
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Sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: The skin-on-frame guide boat 2.0
Posting some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos while we build the tiny house (check out @actuallytiny). This was the 2nd version of the Adirondack guideboat that I built two years after creating the first two originals. The only real changes was increasing the depth amidships from 11.5 to 14 inches deep, and bringing the...
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Sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame images: the Adirondack guide boat
We’re sharing some of our favorite images from the last 15 years while we build the tiny house. (Check out @actuallytiny). This was the first of six Adirondack guideboats I’ve built. Gorgeous, lightweight and addictive to row, they are among my favorite boats ever....
Introducing Shipshape Boatworks, our licensed UK builder
I want to take a moment here to introduce Ant Mace of Shipshape Boatworks, our exclusive UK builder. An experienced wooden boat builder already, Ant first caught my attention by asking about my skin-on-frame guideboats. I get a lot of interest in these beautiful craft, but very little follow through. I sent Ant a...
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Adirondack Guide Boat, mini
Of all the things I build, the Adirondack Guide Boat is by far the most beautiful. Constructed in skin-on-frame that natural lines are even more mesmerizing. Far from the simple construction of a kayak, I like to joke that guide boats are “dangerously close to real boat building.” The work is precise and time consuming,...
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Adirondack Guideboat, Version 2.0
A while back I built two skin-on-frame Adirondack Guideboats following John Gardeners survey of the Virginia. My writeup of those first two boats can be found here. Then I spent five years rowing, fishing, hauling logs, camping, and leaving them out in the rain. When it comes to getting to know a boat, there is...
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The Skin-on-Frame Adirondack Guide Boat
Originally designed to access the interior of the Adirondack wilderness, the guide boat is a miracle of ultralight engineering. Meticulously crafted, the original planked guide boats weighed seventy pounds yet could carry a thousand. This enabled the boats to traverse the many portages and link the many lakes and rivers in these glacially carved mountains. My...
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