The wild jumps in scale here have been a bit mind boggling. Here's our tiny 1/6 scale Briggs dory sitting atop the 1/2-length [...]

And one really big boat. Here's the speed boat that made an attempt on the Grand Canyon record this week. Six sliding seat [...]

Just after Thanksgiving a cluster of Martin Litton's old dory crew from the '70s and '80s gathered in southern California for his widow [...]

We loaded up a stack of boats in the rain and headed up to Utah for recess. We also wanted to see what [...]

Note to frustrated blog followers who tell me I should post a bit more often--I do put up somewhat more regular snippets on [...]

Grand Canyon River Guides, our nonprofit gang of boatfolk and fans, has two gatherings each year: the multi-day Guide Training Seminar at Marble [...]

For several years now we've been talking about making the ultimate personal-sized dory--something akin to the classic SportYak that the Belknap clan popularized [...]

My traveling boatbuilding mania is over for the summer and I got to wind down with a couple great river trips in my [...]

The obvious yin to the yang of this summer's Viking boat course would obviously be Japanese River Boat building. So it was off [...]

In my limited time back in town I was able to finish off the Bert Loper boat. With my favorite sign painter Vladimir [...]