Coos Bay Workboat

Coos Bay Workboat

A spring break road trip down to San Francisco with the wife and kids. My wife plans the itinerary and it does not include boats. If I pushed it, I could probably squeeze a stop in here or there but it would always be under the shadow of a stopwatch. “How much...
Museum of Stories

Museum of Stories

https://youtu.be/S6OT-IRtCHc A Qayaq for a Museum of Stories Museums began as collections of a particular person’s fetish. While the largest of these collections have been largely nationalized, there are still a healthy assortment of personal museums around the world,...
Building the Bouchie Dory Part 24 – Fixing mistakes continued

Building the Bouchie Dory Part 24 – Fixing mistakes continued

We’re back to pick up where we left off with our transom repair. In the last video we made a bandaid to patch over our wound. Now we need to do the plastic surgery that makes it look like nothing untoward ever happened in the first place. We also have a little...
Building the Bouchie Dory Part 23 – Fixing Mistakes

Building the Bouchie Dory Part 23 – Fixing Mistakes

  Building the Bouchie Dory Part 23 – Fixing Mistakes We all make mistakes and I have made a ton of them. It sucks but all we can do is try to smarten up, which seems to be hopeless in my case. Failing that we just have to try to fix them well. This is one...
Building the Bouchie Dory Part 22 – Installing grounding shoes

Building the Bouchie Dory Part 22 – Installing grounding shoes

  Building the Bouchie Dory Pt. 22 – Installing grounding shoes Funny little story to go with this one. When I got out of boatbuilding school I got a job working for an old time BC Forestry Service shipwright. His name was Ed McGeachy. Ed worked from a home...
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