Videos
Teva Faces of The Canyon: Cricket
The McKenzie Drift Boat Class, Fretwater Boatworks at Lowell’s Boat Shop
Can’t Beat This Place For Fun
The Boatmaker
Articles
Bound for Dory
Patagonia
Jeff McElroy / Jul 20, 2020
A colorful tradition of building and running Grand Canyon dory boats is passed to the next generation.
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Rockin’ the Boats
Arizona Highways
By Lawrence Cheek
Fretwater Boatworks founder Brad Dimock and his right-hand woman, Amy “Cricket” Rust, have taken their extensive experience as Colorado River runners and applied it to building boats.
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Bespoke on the Water
American Way
By Bill Kearney
Most people experience the Grand Canyon’s waterways on motorized rubber rafts, but a three day trip on a classic wooden dory reveals the power of simplicity, friendship and the river.
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A Cult of Personality
Wooden Boat
By Delaney Brown / November – December 2022
Connecting the Grand Canyon’s past and future at Fretwater Boatworks.
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Forward into the Past
The Gulch
By Brad Dimock
Photos by Dawn Kish
Brad Dimock puts a new spin on the Briggs
A Nest of Dories
Hibernacle News
1994
Brad Dimock
A meandering Inquiry into the Origins of the Grand Canyon Dory.
Wooden Boats Plunge Ahead
Arizona Highways
Kate Thompson & Brad Dimock / July 2004
Classic Whitewater Vessels Hold Their Own in Colordo Rapids
Scott Thybony’s Grand Canyon Commentary: The Oar Maker
KNAU News Talk – Arizona Public Radio
By Scott Thybony / February 19, 2015
Making oars for whitewater boats is a functional art form that not many people know how to do. But, Flagstaff river guide Brad Dimock does. He’s been making – and rowing – boats in the Grand Canyon for decades, and long ago, even trained KNAU commentator Scott Thybony when he was a fledgling river guide.
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Whatever Boats You Float
Arizona Highways
Brad Dimock
photography by Rudi Petschek
Grand Canyon Boats from Feared to Revered.
Learning the Ropes
Arizona Highways
Brad Dimock
photography by Dawn Kish
Guide Training: an Immersion Course.
The Secret Lives of River Guides
High Country News
Brad Dimock / 2010
Grand Canyon boatman culture converges at “spring training”
Boat Maker, River Runner, Author- Brad Dimocks Fretwater Boatworks
Arizona Daily Sun
By Svea Conrad / February 2019
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Arizona River Stories: Brad Dimock
KJZZ Phoenix
By Laurel Morales / August 10, 2016
In the dog days of summer in Arizona, many people escape the heat for a float down the river. Most return home with a good story. In Flagstaff, river guides often take great pride in the craft of weaving a good yarn.
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