THE WHOLE ENCHILADA
La Suertuda & South Fork
La Suertuda & South Fork We built two Briggs boats in my 2016 Fretwater Boat School class. They left class in varying stages [...]
Lodore, Euprates, & Glen Canyon
Lodore, Euprates, & Glen Canyon Dan Dierker, Dennis Smoldt, and I built three Briggs-style dories: Euphrates, Lodore, and Glen Canyon in 2010. Glen [...]
Mille Crag Bend
Mille Crag Bend Mille Crag Bend is a 1978 Briggs dory from Martin Litton’s fleet. In 1986 she had a dreadful ride through [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Painted Desert
Painted Desert Painted Desert, a McKenzie, came out of my first Fretwater Boat School class in 2015. Back to all McKenzies [...]
Panga & Running Bare
Panga & Running Bare In 2014 we built two Rapid Roberts—a modified McKenzie with a broad tail for motoring. Alan Motter and Connie [...]
Peace River
Peace River Peace River is another of the old 1972 Briggs boats. She had a long and proud career with Martin Litton’s Grand [...]
Seedskadee
Seedskadee Kelly and our crew built this lovely semi-decked McKenzie in 2018. Kelly and Seedskadee have been on the river ever since. Back [...]
Shaman’s Gallery
Shaman’s Gallery In 2019 Canyon Explorations wanted to start running dories and commissioned Shaman’s Gallery. It’s another Bears Ears clone, and the first [...]
