Les Zigotos
Among the two dozen dories described in John Gardner's seminal 1978 The Dory Book, one has always piqued my interest: The St. Pierre [...]
brdfrd2022-09-06T21:25:11+00:00August 28th, 2022|News|
Among the two dozen dories described in John Gardner's seminal 1978 The Dory Book, one has always piqued my interest: The St. Pierre [...]
brdfrd2022-09-06T21:36:02+00:00July 28th, 2022|News|
With boat school over for the year, I dropped Cricket off at the airport *sigh* and headed down the coast to Machais to [...]
brdfrd2022-07-27T07:53:29+00:00July 27th, 2022|News|
Somehow our Doryak class at WoodenBoat School in June attracted a truly astonishing group of wonderful, talented folks. Several were veterans of early [...]
brdfrd2022-07-27T05:12:31+00:00July 27th, 2022|News|
June 11. Finally time to leave the heat and wind that tormented us all spring and fly East. Here we are savoring the [...]
brdfrd2022-04-06T17:47:28+00:00April 6th, 2022|News|
Building the McKenzie River Dory at Lowell's Boat Shop. Two three-day weekends, November 11–20 Instructors: Cricket Rust and Brad Dimock Lowell's Boat Shop [...]
brdfrd2022-04-06T01:00:41+00:00April 6th, 2022|News|
All of a sudden the Owyhee River went from way too low to just right. But probably not for long. Cricket and I [...]
brdfrd2022-03-13T21:43:08+00:00March 13th, 2022|News|
Vladimir takes drop shadows to the next level as we finish Duwamps. #vksigns rules! And with the paint barely dry we heap nine [...]
brdfrd2022-03-02T23:57:41+00:00March 2nd, 2022|News|
Fretwater Boatworks is featured in this month's Arizona Highways in a beautiful story by Larry Cheek, with wonderful photographs by Dawn Kish. Grab [...]
brdfrd2022-03-02T20:12:15+00:00March 2nd, 2022|News|
Catch up time again. My college pal Larry brought in his old Tatman drift boat, Josie. We tried to save his original floor [...]
brdfrd2022-03-05T15:27:00+00:00February 25th, 2022|News|
Justin Gallen made the mistake of walking into my shop a few years ago and ended up with a tool in his hands [...]