Just a couple more glamour shots from the beautiful light we caught last weekend. This simple 1.5 meter downwind/crosswind pop up sail weighs less than 2lbs and will push the canoe 3 mph in 7 mph winds, and 5mph in 10 mph winds. Once I get through all the video course updates I’ll be...
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Some of my favorite skin on frame projects + images, Post 6
While we grind through video work over the next couple weeks, I’m sharing some of my favorite skin on frame images: Something that happens to me with some frequency is that I’ll spend a long time working on a design and then when I’m finally finished I look at it and realize that it...
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Some of my favorite skin on frame projects + images, Post 5
While we grind through video work for the next couple weeks I’m sharing some of my favorite skin boat images: In yesterday‘s post I talked about a commission I took 10 years ago to build a replica of a Hudson Bay kayak completely from scratch. The customer had an old wood block print given...
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Some of my favorite skin-on-frame projects + images, Post 4
While we grind through video work for the next couple weeks I’m sharing some of my favorite skin boat images. Of my many insane wood salvage schemes over the years, collecting rib and coaming stock for a Baffin Bay replica made entirely from driftwood was neither the most arduous nor the most hazardous, but...
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Carrying canoes for mental health: Update
It’s been almost exactly a year now since Tom and Kyle completed their epic journey to climb self-supported 10,000 vertical feet to arrive at the Mount Everest base camp (17,000 ft) carrying Cape Falcon canoes. Tom and Kyle undertook this feat of brutal endurance to raise awareness for mental health issues and also to...
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Prototype canoes for sale (Update: SOLD)
This is just a quick heads up that I’m selling this year’s prototype canoes to make room for the next versions. UPDATE: These canoes are sold. Like all my prototypes these are priced just a couple hundred dollars more than the cost of materials. The solo is 14’ x 30” x 12” and weighs...
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Some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: Tom’s F1 in Lake Powell
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). Tom paddles his F1 kayak through the sandstone moonscape of Lake Powell. Whether it’s days on the Green River through Canyonlands National Park or lower down on Lake Powell, paddling through slick...
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Some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: East Greenland kayak replica details
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). Even when working to a survey, we don’t usually build skin-on-frame kayaks the way they were actually built historically. It is fun once in a while though to replicate a particularly interesting...
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Some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: A class’s worth of kayaks
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). If you want to get good at something there’s no substitute for just doing a lot of it. The speed and low cost of skin-on-frame building has given me the opportunity to...
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Some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: Ryc and Mona in their F1 kayaks
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). It’s strange to be old enough now to have a real sense of the passage of time. I took this picture of my friends Ryc and Mona Over 10 years ago in...
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Some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: Checking the lines on an F1
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). Here Tom and I are checking out the very intentionally unfair lines of my F1 kayak design. Visually the curves seem to flow nicely when the kayak is finished but a lot...
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Sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: Bending ribs
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). When I first started building boats I went to visit a local cabinet maker named Robert who had built an entire sailboat in his backyard. I thought he would be a good...
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Sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: Deck straps + toggles
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). The deck line and toggle arrangements on traditional Greenland hunting kayaks have always fascinated me. A quick page through Harvey Golden’s book, Kayaks of Greenland reveals a vast array of potential setups...
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Sharing some of our favorite skin-on-frame photos: My favorite Greenland kayak ever
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). I’ve been thinking a lot about the kayak in this picture lately. Built 16 years ago this less than faithful reproduction of a certain historic Greenland kayak remains to this day my...
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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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