THE WHOLE ENCHILADA

2020-10-13T23:20:00+00:00

Moe

Moe Norm Nevills’s 1938 WEN Named for his father, William E. Nevills, Norman built WEN and two others for his 1938 Grand Canyon [...]

2020-10-13T21:02:31+00:00

Monongahela

Monongahela At WoodenBoat School in 2019 we built Monongahela. We had a great team and had her hatched, latched, painted, and upside-down in [...]

2020-10-12T18:11:57+00:00

Moqui Steps

Moqui Steps In 1973 One-armed Willie Illingsworth built Moqui Steps and her sister ship Ootsa Lake for Martin Litton. They are oversized McKenzie-style [...]

2020-10-09T22:16:50+00:00

Musuem Models

Museum Models In 2020 we built a series of four 1/6 scale replicas of the classic Grand Canyon wooden boats: Powell’s Kitty Clyde’s [...]

2020-10-12T20:58:30+00:00

Omo

Omo We built Omo on consignment in 2016—a classic Briggs, to be the companion of her bigger sibling Bob. The two boats have [...]

2020-10-08T23:36:13+00:00

Papa Bear

Papa Bear In 2020 we built a second dory for Canyon Explorations’s fleet: Papa Bear, a near-identical sister ship to Shaman’s Gallery. Back [...]

2020-11-30T20:29:20+00:00

Peekaboo

Peekaboo Our prototype Doryak in 2019 is called Peekaboo. She rows great in flatwater, huge water, and even under motor power. Crazy. Back to [...]

2020-10-12T20:02:09+00:00

Rio Rojo

Rio Rojo The Rio Rojo is a Briggs-style boat for Grand Canyon, built on consignment in 2013. She’s traditionally built, glassed inside and [...]

2020-10-08T23:29:12+00:00

Ruby

Ruby Ruby (Rhubarb for short) is a 2009 replica of a Grand Banks dory that was slowly rotting away on Friendship Long Island [...]

2020-10-12T18:19:25+00:00

Sandra

Sandra Sandra is one of the last boats built by Norman Nevills back in 1947. Her grandson Greg wanted to get her running [...]

2020-10-08T23:12:13+00:00

Scow

Scow Glen and Bessie Hyde’s 1928 Sweep Scow Perhaps the worst idea of my life was to replicate the Hydes’ 1928 sweep scow [...]

2020-10-12T19:18:39+00:00

Skagit

Skagit Skagit is one of the last Briggs boat (1981) and was “my” boat for the last seven years that Martin Litton ran [...]