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Surprise Canyon

Surprise Canyon Surprise Canyon was built by Jerry Briggs in 1974 for Jim Deveny, and private boater that palled around with a group [...]

Tatahotso Tatahotso is another old private Briggs boat that ran with Betty Boop and Surprise Canyon. When Jim Hall worked at Fretwater in [...]

Te Whaiau & Okupata Andy Hutchinson and I flew to New Zealand in 2014 to build two open Briggs boats for River Valley [...]

Thunder River While recovering from knee replacement in 2015 I helped or coached BJ Boyle as he constructed a classic Briggs: Thunder River. [...]

Tombigbee Tombigbee was built by Paul Butler in Montana back in 1985. She’s a big stitch-and-glue dory and served many years in Grand [...]

Tree Amigos More details coming soon. Back to all Doryaks

Wild Child Fretwater alumnus Mike Guryan wanted a Bears Ears-sized boat. We built her in the shop in 2018 and he did the [...]

Wild Thing Mike brought this beast by in 2018 to spruce her up for resale, as we planned to (and did) build him [...]