Björn Thommason, the designer of the fabulous Black Pearl sea kayak, recently posted a short article on his website promoting my current build. The original is in Swedish. He has yet to post his usual English translation.  The Google Translate version is quite clear (which is actually scary).  Not sure what “Dancing construction methodology” or “Scuba” was supposed to be… (Th 1/5/12: His English version is up… Google was pretty close http://www.thomassondesign.com/nyheter/inspirerande-black-pearl-bygge On the [...]

Northend Hardwoods is the the lumberyard where I buy most of my hardwood lumber and plywood. They just featured a story about my little shop on their web-page! http://www.northendhardwoods.com/2010/11/supplying-materials-for-wooden-boats/ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

I have started work on a new boat project! This summer I was commissioned to build a modified Hybrid Night Heron for a customer in Connecticut. The recession MUST be over if I’m building boats commercially again. In the the weeks to follow I’ll be doing a full write-up of the build.  I’ll try and post an update at least weekly, sooner if warranted.  All the of the posts will be located under the project [...]

It’s been really tough lately finding the time to update the website.  I should have been done weeks ago. Anyway,  this is just a quick note to say that “Elsie”, the semi-historical rendering of the LC-148 specimen at the Danish National Museum collected from East Greenland, now has her own page in the portfolio.  Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it [...]

I know… I’ve been promising to write an update on the Canoe and Kayak Coating Abrasion Test that I ran back in the Winter/Spring of 2008.  In the past month or so there has been a lot of discussion about it on Björn Thomasson’s website.   Here it is… finally.  This update mostly concerns the “white graphite.”  Actually there’s not much more than what I wrote in a comment… At this point we can not recommend [...]