Last night I went out to the coop to shut “the girls” in for the night and found our first three eggs!  They ignored the nice nestboxes I made for them and just laid them in the deep bedding that covers the floor of the coop. This morning, when I [...]

I guess I’m not the only one building kayaks up here!  I wonder how many sank.  Maybe next year I could come in and give them some pointers.  They could make some stitch and glues out of cardboard that would perform and look better than those pointy boxes.  Still, great [...]

A fellow kayak builder, Pedro Almeida, has an annual paddling fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.  They paddle from Miami to Key West, Florida.  This year will be their tenth trip.  I’ve lost many friends and relatives to cancer and have some that are currently battling it.  Hopefully you can help sponsor his trip:

My annual fundraiser is coming up quickly. As many of you might remember, we paddle our kayaks from Miami to Key [...]

Hard to believe that Christine brought the chicks home six weeks old today.  They have grown so much since the last post.  The biggest weighs in at about two pounds.  The smallest is just over one pound.  Three of them have really started developing brightly colored wattles and combs and [...]

Last month a previous customer from NH (see the “Azure” Njord project) asked me to help him design a new strip-built sea kayak.  He’s smaller in stature and has a hard time finding high-performance sea kayaks that fit him.   The new hull is roughly being modeled on a SOF [...]