Repairs

Cricket made most boats crashers look like amateurs with her adventure at Horn Creek. But we've always maintained there's no wreck so bad [...]

Skagit is one of the last Briggs boat (1981) and was “my” boat for the last seven years that Martin Litton ran Grand Canyon [...]

Tim Cooper built Columbine back around 1985 for our mutual friend Larry. Larry later sold it to my then wife Jeri, who has [...]

Tim was a regular in my boat school, taking oarmaking, bronzecasting, and Briggs boat building. He went home and slowly put together Eilean, [...]

Mike brought this beast by in 2018 to spruce her up for resale, as we planned to (and did) build him a Briggs. [...]

Surprise Canyon was built by Jerry Briggs in 1974 for Jim Deveny, and private boater that palled around with a group of two [...]

Mille Crag Bend is a 1978 Briggs dory from Martin Litton’s fleet. In 1986 she had a dreadful ride through the rock island [...]

My old college buddy Larry has an old Tatman drift boat that needed some work. Her name is Josie. I spent way more [...]

Sandra is one of the last boats built by Norman Nevills back in 1947. Her grandson Greg wanted to get her running again [...]

Tombigbee was built by Paul Butler in Montana back in 1985. She’s a big stitch-and-glue dory and served many years in Grand Canyon [...]

Tatahotso is another old private Briggs boat that ran with Betty Boop and Surprise Canyon. When Jim Hall worked at Fretwater in 2012 [...]

In 1973 One-armed Willie Illingsworth built Moqui Steps and her sister ship Ootsa Lake for Martin Litton. They are oversized McKenzie-style boats built [...]