Friday, February 25, 2011

California Condor

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This past weekend we went camping at Pinnacles National Monument.  A national monument is like a National park only it's been establish...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Grow your own Boat

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The grow your own boat project is going well so far.  All the willow twigs I have stuck in the ground along the fence line at the shop have ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

post apocalyptic homeless flesh eating zombies

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Here we go. If you are at all into post apocalypticism, check out the March issue of Harper's magazine. William Vollman, author of nume...

Two years before the mast in a post apocalyptic kayak trailer

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I was checking the stats on my blog and I found that the kayak trailer blog entry had the most hits lately followed by post apocalyptic look...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Two years before the mast

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Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana's account of collecting cow hides in California between 1834 and 1836.  The book is con...

Bill Samson Builds Baidarka

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Bill Samson posted a trailer on youtube for a video he did on building his latest baidarka replica.  Watch now. The video can be ordered at...

Springtime

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Springtime is approaching in the northern hemisphere, at least it seems to be at some latitudes.  Hard to believe in some parts of the US w...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

That post apocalyptic third world look and feel

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I'm working on the part of the Aleutian Kayak that has to do with bending wood. And so I went and took some pictures of old  steam boxes...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Kayak Transport

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Former shop mate Sebastian just mailed me a bunch of pictures from our move a year ago.  We had a bunch of kayaks to store temporarily till ...
Friday, February 4, 2011

ume

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It's spring time in Alameda.  The ume (Japanes apricots) are blossoming, first time since we got them.  Perhaps the blossoms will turn ...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

New Chapter of The Aleutian Kayak Released

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I have released the deck building chapter of The Aleutian Kayak. Check it out
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

More Kayak Sailing

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Here we go again.  More kayak sailing attempts. I was using my friend Tim Anderson's lug rig to test out kayak sailing for myself, but h...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Paddle Storage

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I finally came up with a scheme for storing my paddles at the new shop location. There they are tucked away in the rafters of the mezzanine ...

staying warm

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I just ran into this photo on the internet and was reminded of some similar photos I took a few years ago of my own cold weather paddling ge...

The Dorset Culture, up the Arctic without a Kayak

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The Dorset culture is named after Cape Dorset, the place in the Canadian Arctic where the first artifacts from that culture were found.  The...

Ancient People of the Arctic

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You can't really click to look inside. You will have to go to Amazon to do that, but that's the cover of Ancient People of the Arcti...

Blackwood

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I'm thinking the coppiced tree behind our shop is a Blackwood.  See here for lots of pictures .  Seems to be an import from Australia th...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Boat Launch Party

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Diane organized a picnic to celebrate the launching of her boat.  A number of her friends came and a bunch of other skin boaters came an bro...

Kayak Trailer

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Diane built a ten foot kayak partly for ease of storage and partly for light weight and partly because she wanted to be able to trailer it b...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Inadvertent Coppicing.

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The other day I was out front of the shop looking for twigs and I zeroed in on this particular tree in the corner of the lot. It looked lik...
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