We’ve been meaning to formally write up and post an environmental statement for the company and our family.  What better day to do it than the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.  The entire statement is posted verbatim below.  You will not find us talking about climate change or the latest [...]

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 [...]

Just to warn you, I’m in the process of switching the website over to one entirely powered by my WordPress blog.  All my static html pages will be transferred over, even the homepage.   I’ll remove those pages last and auto-link their addresses to their new ones.  It should make the [...]

Yup, you read the title correctly.  Effective today and lasting into the near future I will not be taking any orders for canoes or kayaks. To tell you the truth, I needed a break.  For the past couple years I used most if not all of my free time being [...]

As most of you know during the day I work for the State of New Hampshire’s Department of Transportation (NHDOT is so much shorter) as a contract administrator (civil engineer in charge of construction projects). At night and weekends I’m building boats. Every season the DOT’s Public Relations Officer, Bill Boynton, publishes a department-wide newsletter called “On the Move.” It’s a pretty normal company newsletter: a message from the Commissioner, developments in the industry, who [...]