THE WHOLE ENCHILADA
Ashley & Made in the Shade
Ashley & Made in the Shade In my first boatbuilding course at Woodenboat School in 2016 we built two McKenzies in a week. [...]
Bears Ears
Bears Ears We designed this boat to be the ideal modern size—somewhere between Bob and a Briggs. It has 25% more volume than [...]
Betty Boop
Betty Boop Betty Boop was built by Keith Steele in 1967 for television star Ron Hayes. Hayes wrecked her on a gas station [...]
Bird Baths
Bird Baths Covid 2020 led Dawn Kish and I to come up with a dory bird bath and garden to spice up the [...]
Bookshelves
Bookshelves In 2018 I built a detailed 1/3 scale replica of a Briggs dory as a bookshelf for a fundraiser. She brought more [...]
Brothers Keeper
Brothers Keeper Our 2017 WoodenBoat School class built Brothers Keeper. She went home with brothers Glen and Dean, hence the name. Back to [...]
Brown Betty
Brown Betty Roy Lippman built the second clone of the Betty Boop in my shop in 2015. He had some guidance from me—but [...]
Columbine Falls
Columbine Falls Tim Cooper built Columbine back around 1985 for our mutual friend Larry. Larry later sold it to my then wife Jeri, [...]
Dzil Joo’Ba’ii
Dzil Joo’Ba’ii In 2020 we built a custom Briggs with the help of its new owners, Chet and Kat. It’s named in Navajo: [...]
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon Bert Loper’s 1949 Grand Canyon For Bert Loper’s 150th birthday in 2019 we recreated his ultimate boat, the Grand Canyon. We [...]
Hetch Hetchy
Hetch Hetchy Hetch Hetchy is one of the final three dories built by Keith Steele for Martin Litton before the two parted ways. [...]
Juan and Dui
Juan and Dui In 2007 Dan Dierker and I, after years of messing around with wood boats, decided to build one with Roger [...]