Howdy! We are here to share exciting news, we are officially launching our February Boatbuilding Course. We will build 2 Mckenziacs with [...]

In early August we departed for Maine once again--Cricket and Glade by car and trailer, Brad by train. I left Flagstaff around four [...]

On Saturday between teaching courses on the McKenzie River we drove to Pacific City on the coast for Dory Days. They have a [...]

No rest for the wicked around here. Since our last post all sorts of things have happened. Cricket got to star in an OutsideOnline  [...]

Our McKenziac course is full, but we still have a couple spots on the Open Chub course. These are super fun one-week classes [...]

On Easter Sunday Kate Aitchison showed up with her Colorado College class, having spent two weeks with them carving side panels for two [...]

After our January vacation we got back to work on our McKenziacs. Here's Lydia freehanding dagger stripes. Then we loaded them up for [...]

For five years in the late 1980s and early '90s I worked winters on the Bío Bío River in Chile—a Class V+ stream [...]

  We are delighted to announce two boatbuilding courses in July, to be taught at the Pruitt shop by the McKenzie River in [...]