DORIES
2012 D1
2012 D2
2015 Bob
2018 Bears Ears
2018 D3
2018 D4
2018 D5
2018 Wild Child
2019 Shaman’s Gallery
2020 Papa Bear

Oversize

In the mid twenty-teens we designed two oversized versions for Grand Canyon, BOB, and a suite of of a Wee Boabys. They performed very well, but we have now ceased building boats of this size and are concentrating on our Fretwater Buxom Line. But for the record, the Wee Boaby series–Bears Ears, Shaman’s Gallery, Papa Bear, and Wild Child, as well as D3, D4, and D5–are as follows:
Length: 18′
Gunwale Width: 88-5/8″
Chine Width: 52-3/8″
Rocker: 10-1/8″

Lara Gomora2025-04-12T17:13:10+00:00

Wild Child

Fretwater alumnus Mike Guryan wanted a Bears Ears-sized boat. We built her in the shop in 2018 and he did the finishing touches [...]

Lara Gomora2025-02-04T22:27:50+00:00

Shaman’s Gallery

In 2019 Canyon Explorations wanted to start running dories and commissioned Shaman’s Gallery. It’s another Bears Ears clone, and the first traditionally-built wooden [...]

Lara Gomora2025-02-04T22:20:10+00:00

Papa Bear

In 2020 we built a second dory for Canyon Explorations’s fleet: Papa Bear, a near-identical sister ship to Shaman’s Gallery. Back to all [...]

Lara Gomora2025-02-04T22:20:15+00:00

D1-D5

In 2012 Arizona Raft Adventures (AzRA) bought two aluminum hulls. We helped design the interior and later added wooden gunwales and brightwork. Their [...]

Lara Gomora2025-02-04T22:20:18+00:00

Bob

My friend of Very Large Stature asked me to design a much larger Briggs boat to fit his anatomy in 2015. Bob (Big [...]

Lara Gomora2025-02-04T22:20:23+00:00

Bears Ears

We designed this boat to be the ideal modern size—somewhere between Bob and a Briggs. It has 25% more volume than a Briggs, [...]