New Francois Vivier designed Yawl with Clint Chase

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Francois Vivier and Clint Chase are busy designing a new dayboat/weekender. This has been a fun collaboration and we have a lot more work to do. By this...
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Free Goat Island Skiff Yawl Plan

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Drake and family at the beachDrake is getting built in the shop to test the fitting of the kit before they get shipped off to first customers in WA and...
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Day Three in Drake: The final day of the Small Reach Regatta

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The final day was going to have big shoes to fill after an incredible reach and row day 2. The rowing group gathered at breakfast to scheme a separate...
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Small Reach Regatta: Day 2 in Drake Rowboat

Monday, September 6, 2010

I was a little nervous beginning day 2 on a long reach with a potentially gusty offshore breeze that would carry the fleet 8+ miles to the lunch stop....
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Drake in the Small Reach Regatta on the Coast of Maine: Day 1

Saturday, September 4, 2010

The Small Reach Regatta was the next stop in my busy summer. The SRR is a gathering of 70 sail-and-oar boats, this year, at Lamoine State Park and put...
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Teaching at The Wooden Boat School: Tradional & Modern Oar Making

Thursday, September 2, 2010

After work at Shaw and Tenney, I had my debut teaching job at Wooden Boat School. One of my favorite (and most labor intensive) specialties is oar making,...
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