Liz and I making sure the boats still float and getting some nice images along the way. We switched between the smallest nesting/sailing canoe and her new F1....
Category: Trips and Adventures
Jeep XJ build + trip, Part 4
Jeep Cherokee XJ build/trip, Part 4: Our strategy for getting away from the crowds starts by avoiding National Parks (except Death Valley) and anything on a map that says Waterfall or Hot Springs. Next we look for roads that aren’t quite technical enough to pull in the hard core wheelers but have enough short...
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Jeep XJ build + trip, Part 3
Jeep Cherokee XJ build + trip, Part 3: The XJ is a pretty small box for two people to live HAPPILY in for a couple months but with good planning, navigation, food, sleeping gear, and judgement, it can be done. The back of the rig will fit 5ea 14gal Rubbermaid bins, a cooler, 4ea...
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Jeep XJ build + trip, Part 2
Jeep XJ build part 2, continued from previous post. I’ve always gone with dual solar panel dual deep cycle battery set ups in my vehicle builds but the XJ just doesn’t have the weight capacity or space for it, so I was stoked that in the real world my single battery single panel setup...
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Jeep XJ build + trip, Part 1
By request, I’ll talk a little bit about the Jeep build before I get back to boat building. I’ll start by making the bold claim that the ‘98-99 Jeep Cherokee is by far the most four-wheel-drive capability you can get per dollar spent of any vehicle currently in existence. Simple, lightweight, and reasonably powerful...
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Picking up where we left off
You know your country is in bad shape when two months in a hostile wasteland filled with dangerous animals, the relics of a once thriving industrial economy, and aggressive bands of roving jackasses feels like an improvement. Picking up where I left off last time, I bought a ‘99 Jeep Cherokee (because they’re cheap,...
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Can you take a skin-on-frame kayak on a serious expedition?
Can you take a skin-on-frame kayak on a serious expedition? Join artist, photographer and adventurer Claire Dibble for an online panel discussion with her and two other women who have made impressive source to sea journeys. In 2019 Claire built and paddled a Cape Falcon F1 solo 1200 miles down the Columbia river. To...
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Some of my favorite skin-on-frame projects + images, Post 3
Well we grind through some video work for the next couple weeks I’m posting some of my favorite skin on frame images. This short clip was taken by my friend Ken while paddling his F1 kayak in Monterey Bay. Enjoy. (The sound on this one is nice as well)...
Congratulations to Claire on finishing her 1200 mile 110 day source-to-sea journey in her F1 kayak
Congratulations to Claire Dibble who just finished her 1200 mile 110 day source-to-sea journey down the Columbia River in a Cape Falcon F1 kayak that she built. Claire is an accomplished artist, photographer and adventurer. To see photographs, maps, and an explanation of the purpose and concept of the trip visit her website: watershedmoments.art...
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Paddling the Columbia River from source to sea in an F1 kayak
I am proud to share that artist and photographer Claire Dibble has begun her 1200 mile source-to-sea voyage on the Columbia River in a Cape Falcon F1 Kayak she built herself. Below I have copied text from her website explaining the details and the purpose of the journey in her own words. You can...
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Claire stopped by a few weeks ago to test
Claire stopped by a few weeks ago to test paddle an F1. She’s building her own this winter for a solo kayak journey from source to sea on the Columbia River next summer. She’ll spend 3 months paddling 2000 kilometres between Canal Flats BC and Astoria Oregon, documenting the journey in photographs and an...
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On YouTube: On the water footage with the nesting canoes
Just posted a video of on the water footage of the nesting canoes to the YouTube channel. We spent a large portion of the trip with the canoes catamaraned together – an experimental feature that performed beyond expectations, and wound up being fairly critical on this trip to avoid swamping on the class 2...
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Sometimes You Just Have to Go Paddling…
I think we all have this idea that an epic vacation might act as a pressure release valve to mitigate the stress we accumulate in our lives. With an S.I. injury I’m desperately trying to stabilize the logical solution seemed to get as far away from work and boating as possible, so I headed...
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Creeking Goes Coastal: Two Weeks of Low and Dry Force Us onto the Only Water that’s Left
Normally the entire state of Oregon is pounded by sideways rain from November to April, occasionally we’ll get a sunny patch, but this December has been weird. I normally hang up the sea kayak for the winter, but after two weeks of solid sunshine and there was little to no creeking left to be...
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Up and Over: Traversing Overland from Arch Cape to my house via Onion Peak
For seven years now I’ve gazed upon the sentinel of Onion Peak. It’s bulwark has supervised the creation of my boatbuilding business, and then my organic farm. At times bathed in the warm glow of sunrise or sunset, at others wrapped in fog, blasted by rain, and covered with ice, I glanced up again...
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