December 14 - Stored Canoe

Canoe should be wrapped and stored in a more protected place, but still enjoying the lines and patterns on this one. I am convinced, however, that it will be a spell before we get back in the water up here.

December 7- Canoe Launch

The Ranger 15, a woodstrip canoe, out of the shop and into the water. Just in time. the lake will soon freeze. This design comes out of Ted Moores' shop, Bear Mountain Boats. The Ranger 15 is based on the Prospector models once built by the Chestnut Canoe Company. This one is built primarily from Ponderosa pine, cut and milled from the local forest. Pictures of the canoe under construction are at my Speaking from Experience web site.

December 6

It's not quite like having your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone, but this one made me smile. For several summers now I've found my way to Brooklin Maine to spend a week or two learning to build canoes and other small wooden boats at the Woodenboat School. Courses are so popular that many of them fill on the first day of registration in January. I've always had a great time at the school and love building boats, so I was pleased when my friends emailed me to tell me I had a mug shot in the Woodenboat School catalog.

Must confess to not being faculty, though somehow ending up in the faculty section. Won't take much detective work to figure out which one is this old salt.