Historic Replicas

In 2024 we joined with Steve Steele to lead a class recreating Martin Litton's first dory, Portola, later renamed Diablo Canyon. The class [...]

Cody Little at Tse Kooh Outfitters wanted to add to his San Juan fleet for 2025. He already had Boxcar, which we built [...]

This isn't, by any means, a replica. But there's no other category to put her in. We were getting ready to build a [...]

The classic Briggs Grand Caanyon Dory was based on Jerry Briggs's earlier open fishing boat, the Rogue River Special--still considered by many Rogue boaters [...]

Glen and Bessie Hyde’s 1928 Sweep Scow Perhaps the worst idea of my life was to replicate the Hydes’ 1928 sweep scow for [...]

Norm Nevills’s 1938 WEN Named for his father, William E. Nevills, Norman built WEN and two others for his 1938 Grand Canyon trip. [...]

Buzz Holmstrom’s 1937 Julius F Working with Roger Fletcher and a host of friends in Oregon in 2001, we recreated Holmstrom’s amazing Julius [...]

Bert Loper’s 1949 Grand Canyon For Bert Loper’s 150th birthday in 2019 we recreated his ultimate boat, the Grand Canyon. We plan to [...]

Emery Kolb’s 1911 Edith In 2011 Dan Dierker and I built this replica of the original Edith, which Kolb rowed down the Green [...]

Norm Nevills’s 1930’s San Juan punt A replica of Norman Nevills’s San Juan punt Redbud—one of the original fleet of San Juan boats [...]