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...
A trip to the Blue Ox Millworks I had stumbled onto the Blue Ox on Youtube some years ago. Eric Hollinbeck is a Vietnam vet who dealt with his own PTSD issues by retreating into a secluded corner of a Eureka California industrial park. There he took a deep interest in...
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,...
https://youtu.be/qhcPSfrmVXc Leathering Oars One of the things that I have always found fascinating about wooden boatbuilding is how many different material manipulation disciplines it pulls you into. Of course there is the woodworking itself but coming right up...
Cutting Carlin Joints Sometimes just watching someone do something is enough to figure it out yourself The carlin joint is possibly one of the most interesting of all joints to tackle. It is both intimidating at first glance and dead simple in geometry and layout. The...
