Here's a heads up on the classes Cricket and I will be teaching at WoodenBoat School. Click the links for a full description. So sorry! Both classes are full as of January 5. You can get on a waiting list if you like, as some folks do cancel once they [...]

Walter's Camp to Fisher's Landing (WTF) is a little visited flatwater run on the very lower Colorado. Slow flat water, no rapids, complicated to access, limited hiking options due to impenetrable tule grass, unpredictable water levels, and for the most part, simply pointless. We love that sort of thing. For [...]

First, an important announcement. No, we are not selling Fretwater Trading Cards. Or at least not yet. Off Center Harbor, a website out of Brooklin, Maine, where Cricket and I teach, did a lovely video about the course we taught last month at Lowell's Boat Shop in northern Massachusetts. They [...]

Before Cricket and I headed East, we got the crew started on three more personal Doryaks--the fourth set of triplets to be birthed here. Here's Bruce learning the fine art of quick and dirty scarfing. Glade cutting framing parts. Three sets of side panels getting glued up. Turns out you [...]

At Fretwater, it's first class all the way. Well, since Fretwater Boatworks runs all its expenses through an American Airlines credit card, we eventually get a few free treats. And a visit to the Admiral's Club. It sure beats the cacaphony of the terminal We picked up our ride in [...]

We've often prided ourselves at how much we accomplish in the boatshop, on the river, and in our travels. Well, in late August my body and mind informed me, rather abruptly, that in my 70th year I might need to take a break now and then. It was not a [...]

I'd been at a full gallop for a few years now, building boats, rowing boats, teaching boats, traveling to see more boats, and a zillion other things. I've been forgetting one important thing: taking a break. Then I broke. I went down pretty hard in mid-August and crept home with [...]

We got back to Utah in time to rig the river trip and still have enough light to take little Jiminy down to the river for a test run and rechristening. We called it a success in spite of a few issues with the motor and a few rescues. The [...]