Journal entry archive
- Construction Updates on Four Boats
As the assembled crew lifted Jim White’s LAURENTIA cutter hull off the strongback and carefully turned it over, the sun ... - BOATBUILDING BASICS WORKSHOP Wraps Up It’s over. At least the construction phase is over. Each team finished their Six-Hour Canoe on time and decided who ...
- BOATBUILDING BASICS WORKSHOP Underway The 2020 BOATBUILDING BASICS WORKSHOP started February 8th and will run for five Saturdays. Twelve participants working in teams ...
- 2020 BOATBUILDING BASICS WORKSHOP Registration is open.
It might be the most fun and satisfying thing you’ll ever build. It’s called a Six-Hour Canoe, a lightweight 15ft. ...
- And now for something completely different: A Hovercraft
Mike and Noah Madar, our November Meeting guest speakers, levitated us into totally new territory. A little over a year ...
- Four New Boats for the Summer The last day of the Boatbuilding Basics Workshop has a bittersweet feeling. As keels and decks are screwed and glued ...
- Boatbuilding Basics Workshop Filled to Capacity Registration closed January 31st. and we’re happy to report our 2019 Boatbuilding Basics Workshop sold out! We will be building ...
- Back again! Our 2019 Boatbuilding Basics Workshop It might be the most fun and satisfying thing you’ve built. It’s called a Six-Hour Canoe and you will learn ...
- Boatbuilding Alfresco
Tom Baugher is building a 15ft. center console power boat in his backyard. What is so remarkable is that Tom ...
- FIRST LIGHT Launched! The balmy weather of April 30 was just right to launch FIRST LIGHT built by Mike Latham. Mike together with ...
Richardson Rendezvous
- Motoring on the Erie Canal
Attending the Richardson Boat Owners Rendezvous
Hop aboard shipmates as we head to Lockport, New York where we board Heidi for ...
- Day One: Funny How It All Works Out We’re on our way to Watertown, NY. Our first stop is a quick side trip is the boat auction at the ...
- Day Two: The Clayton Antique Boat Museum That thin In this picture, the green band across the water is Canada. We’re on the shore of the St. ...
- Day Three: The Pirate Life Last evening we drove from Clayton to Lockport. As the sun entered golden hour we arrived at the home of ...
- Day Four: Locking Through Passing through seven locks today brought us together as a crew. Here’s how it worked. Phil radioed the lock master and ...
- Day Five: From Breakfast to Baldwinsville Shortly, I heard a piercing, unfamiliar bird call. An osprey arose from a tree and flew back and forth in ...
- Day Six: The Richardson Rendezvous Is Called to Order Let the rendezvous begin! Four Richardson boats and about thirty members attended. The people came from areas of Chesapeake Bay, ...
- Day Seven: Heading West Today’s commentary will be brief. The Richardson group got together for breakfast and we said goodbye with a lots of ...
- Day Eight: An Incredible Chain of Good Luck Linking Bad Events
Mile upon mile came and went when suddenly a loud metallic scraping sound arose above the steady drone of the engine. ...
- Day Nine: Rain and Consequences
Hoping to make it home today, we got an early start. By lunch time we passed through three locks. One ...
