Annual / Seasonal Updates | Cape Falcon Kayak

Video: Merry Christmas if you’re doing that sort of thing today

December 2021July 2023Leave a comment

The best experience on the water is always going to come from choosing the right kayak for your needs. For me that’s usually a more modern design, but I’d be lying if I said that I don’t love how this latest Greenland kayak looks on top of my jeep! Merry Christmas if you’re doing...

Video: Happy Thanksgiving

November 2021July 2023Leave a comment

Thanksgiving around these parts might just be another boat building day with turkey, but at least everyone’s getting fed. My 1942 direct drive Parks planer chows down on 11 inch wide 5/4 white oak from Zena Forest Products....

Timelapse: Christmas with kayak ribs

December 2020July 2023Leave a comment

As usual, don’t miss the music here! Pausing from the kayak build for a moment, Liz and I rallied the holiday spirit on Wednesday and MADE a Christmas tree out of boat building scraps. The base is leftover birch ply from rowing outriggers. The trunk is rejected oar shaft stock, and the branches are...

Cape Falcon Kayak 2020 Update

February 2020July 20237 Comments

Before we set sail a quick point of order. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail in this update about the chronic illness I’ve been fighting for a while now, but one of the more challenging aspects of my life right now is trying to balance honesty with decorum when choosing...

Cape Falcon Kayak 2019 New Years Update

January 2019February 2023One Comment

2018 was a year of contrast and polarities. On one hand Cape Falcon Kayak is thriving and on the other I’m still dug in on the front lines in the trench warfare against some pretty serious health issues. I’ve got a lot of good to talk about this year so lets get the bad...

Cape Falcon Kayak 2017 Late Summer Update: Stealing from God!

August 2017February 20237 Comments

Last update I was fresh off the heels of finishing the kayak building video course, looking forward to the new year. Videos were selling, I’d made a little sailboat, life was OK. Then winter came, and with it the full terrifying force of the chronic illness I’ve been fighting for the last few years....

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Beating to Weather

November 2016June 20234 Comments

So let’s start this update off with the big news first. The Cape Falcon Kayak instructional video courses are now online at cape-falcon-kayak.thinkific.com. Years in the making, these courses include six hours of free videos and over ten hours of video instruction available for purchase. Complimenting these videos are seven, seventeen page downloadable PDF...

Same Thing We Do Every Day Pinky, Try to Take Over the World

July 2016June 202320 Comments

Picking up where we left off last update, my medical situation is still pretty dark. Neuropathy, heart pain, dysautonomia, and a whole host of awful unexplained symptoms. I’ve never been one of these anti-allopathic medicine people, but as a very sick person I’m continually shocked at just how badly the American medical system fails...

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Cape Falcon Kayak 2016 Update

March 2016February 202320 Comments

For almost a year this little grey update box has sat empty while my email inbox has steadily filled with people wondering if I’ve dropped off the proverbial waterfall at the edge of the planet. The truth is, my health situation has been pretty rough lately and I’ve been quietly hoping things would improve...

Looking Forward

July 2015June 20238 Comments

With the help of some friends, over July 4th weekend I finished clearing out the last of the barn. Selling all my kayaks, moving all my tools to various locations. After 15 years of building a kayak business and an organic farm in this beautiful little town on the edge of the Pacific ocean, I’m sure...

Saying goodbye to the shop

April 2015June 202325 Comments

Well, fuck it. I suppose that’s not a very professional way to start a post, but by all measures 2013-2015 shall hereby be known as the years that stuffed my whole life into a food processor and hit: Puree. There’s no easy way to say this so I might as well have out with...

Flowers in the Valley of Darkness

January 2015June 202313 Comments

For those of you who haven’t read my last blog entry, I recently went public about an undiagnosed illness that I’ve been battling from for the last 3 years. Finally admitting that my pain and disability levels were greater than I could continue to hide, and that I needed help both emotionally and financially...

The Hardest Update I’ve Ever Written

November 2014February 202342 Comments

Here on November 18th, 2014, just a little over a month shy of my 40th birthday, I want to be writing about how this has been an amazing year. I want to tell you about how the off-grid Airstream project is coming along beautifully, with plans to add a mobile version of the Japanese...

Changes: The Cape Falcon Kayak 2013 Winter Update

December 2013June 2023Leave a comment

2013 was a tough year. Beginning with a brutal sports injury that left me barely able to walk for eight months, just as that started healing I woke up in the middle of the night and shook my fiance awake, “Somethings wrong, my heart isn’t beating right.” Snapping back into paramedic mode, this time...

Harvest: The Cape Falcon Kayak Fall 2013 Update

October 2013June 2023Leave a comment

As anyone who reads this site knows, I like to dive right into the important issues of life before moving onto the trivialities of kayaking and whatnot, and as such I feel compelled to ask my readers if they saw the latest larger-than-life sci-fi/monster movie Pacific Rim yet? Dude! Giant monsters fighting huge robots...