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 [...]

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 [...]

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. 

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 [...]

First I’d like to wish all my customers and purveyors of my site a happy and prosperous 2010.  Sorry if I didn’t post many updates in 2009.  I ended getting a bit burned out and needed a break.  I WILL resume commissions for boats this winter.  I’m going to run [...]