First, an important announcement. No, we are not selling Fretwater Trading Cards. Or at least not yet. Off Center Harbor, a website out [...]

Before Cricket and I headed East, we got the crew started on three more personal Doryaks--the fourth set of triplets to be birthed [...]

At Fretwater, it's first class all the way. Well, since Fretwater Boatworks runs all its expenses through an American Airlines credit card, we [...]

We've often prided ourselves at how much we accomplish in the boatshop, on the river, and in our travels. Well, in late August [...]

I'd been at a full gallop for a few years now, building boats, rowing boats, teaching boats, traveling to see more boats, and [...]

We got back to Utah in time to rig the river trip and still have enough light to take little Jiminy down to [...]

It's been a big year for flooding in Flagstaff, and a rough year for the troll that lives under my bridge. In July [...]

Among the two dozen dories described in John  Gardner's seminal 1978 The Dory Book, one has always piqued my interest: The St. Pierre [...]

With boat school over for the year, I dropped Cricket off at the airport *sigh* and headed down the coast to Machais to [...]

Somehow our Doryak class at WoodenBoat School in June attracted a truly astonishing group of wonderful, talented folks. Several were veterans of early [...]