From small boats back to a big one
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 [...]
brdfrd2020-09-21T18:47:15+00:00February 3rd, 2020|News|
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 [...]
brdfrd2020-09-21T18:47:26+00:00January 13th, 2020|News|
And one really big boat. Here's the speed boat that made an attempt on the Grand Canyon record this week. Six sliding seat [...]
brdfrd2020-09-23T21:18:45+00:00January 5th, 2020|News|
Just after Thanksgiving a cluster of Martin Litton's old dory crew from the '70s and '80s gathered in southern California for his widow [...]
brdfrd2020-09-21T18:47:57+00:00December 3rd, 2019|News|
We loaded up a stack of boats in the rain and headed up to Utah for recess. We also wanted to see what [...]
brdfrd2020-09-24T19:55:33+00:00November 20th, 2019|News|
Note to frustrated blog followers who tell me I should post a bit more often--I do put up somewhat more regular snippets on [...]
brdfrd2020-09-24T19:52:34+00:00November 3rd, 2019|News|
Grand Canyon River Guides, our nonprofit gang of boatfolk and fans, has two gatherings each year: the multi-day Guide Training Seminar at Marble [...]
brdfrd2020-11-25T17:25:49+00:00October 29th, 2019|News|
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 [...]
brdfrd2020-09-24T19:44:50+00:00October 20th, 2019|News|
My traveling boatbuilding mania is over for the summer and I got to wind down with a couple great river trips in my [...]
brdfrd2020-09-24T18:30:36+00:00September 20th, 2019|News|
The obvious yin to the yang of this summer's Viking boat course would obviously be Japanese River Boat building. So it was off [...]
brdfrd2020-11-11T20:21:21+00:00September 20th, 2019|News|
In my limited time back in town I was able to finish off the Bert Loper boat. With my favorite sign painter Vladimir [...]