Journal entry archive

• FIRST LIGHT Launched! The balmy weather of April 30 was just right to launch FIRST LIGHT built by Mike Latham.  Mike together with ...
• Anchors Aweigh at the Boatbuilding Basics Workshop! March 3:  The Boatbuilding Basics Workshop is underway!  Two Six-Hour Canoes are under construction and will come together over five ...
• Boatbuilding Basics Workshop: Build the Six-Hour Canoe  CABBS is offering a Boatbuilding Basics Workshop.  Participants will learn hands-on by building  a “Six-Hour Canoe” designed by Mike O’Brien, the ...
• CABBS at Paddlefest: Promoting Our Six-Hour Canoe Boatbuilding Class The CABBS booth at  Cleveland MetroParks Whiskey Island Paddlefest promoted our upcoming Six-Hour Canoe boatbuilding class.  Planned for March, 2018, ...
• CABBS at the 2017 Cleveland Mid-America Boat Show Let’s start with this year’s kid’s model boat, a sailing catamaran designed by Jerry Priebe.  The CABBS kid’s boatbuilding workshop is ...
• 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 ...
• Guest Speaker: Renee Durkee,
  Author of Rum Run You didn’t need the fastest boat but it helped. During the 1920’s, Prohibition outlawed alcoholic beverages in the USA. But ...
• Step by Step a Swampscott Dory Takes Shape John Mikolich’s 16 ft. Swampscott dory will be seeing water soon, but exactly when he is reluctant to say. It’s ...
• Bending Wood with Steam, Muscle and Steel Presentation by: Rick Blamer, CABBS member Rick Blamer fired up his steam box and gave a live steam bending demonstration. To ...
• Caring for Your Sails and Rigging To be competitive today a racing sailboat is not rigged with stainless steel cables. Rather it is rigged with composite ...

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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 ...