Saturday, March 26, 2011

Got Radiation?

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March 11, radioactive fallout from the reactors in Japan hit California.  I suspected that after crossing the Pacific, not that much radioac...

El Condor Pasa

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It's a song title and it's an opportunity for me to trot out yet another Condor picture.  After spending 5 days at the Pinnacles ...

Tony and Big Al

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Tony Mullins likes long paddles.  A year or two back I made several long ones, based on some photos that Jeffrey Dickrell of Unalaska, AK ha...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Iqyan in Akutan

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Back in 2004 I was up in Akutan, AK helping Kurt Schmidt and his junior high and high school class build some skin on frame baidarkas or iq...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

kayak trailer 2.0

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Diane got release 2.0 of her kayak trailer off the ground.  This one works much better than Release 1.0 .  It's a basic off the shelf bi...
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More Sunken Boat

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Fellow kayaker Tony sent me the following pictures of the boat that sank during a recent winter storm in SF Bay.  See my comments on that si...

Another Iqyax^

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My friend Patty, Unangan bent-wood hat maker sent me this photo.  Sharon, the young woman in the picture made a scale model iqyax^ by follow...
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 ...