Hull First So, as promised here is an update on my first all-strip build: Nick Schade's incomparable Petrel . I'll try to stee...

At the beginning of this past season I had resolved to learn the technique perfected long ago by the Inuit people and Greenlanders known a...

The first waves of winter have swept over Western, PA - prematurely if you ask me. On my last paddle in early December I noticed that all of...

Paddling on the Three Rivers around Pittsburgh can be entirely delightful. And this past summer I have had plenty of opportunities to do so...

When I started this blog it was for the simple purpose of documenting the trials and tribulations of constructing the Nick Schade designed...

So, over this past spring and summer I have been musing and debating (okay, I'll admit to obsessing) what boat to build next. Truthfully...

Okay, I am not talking about rapids and white water paddling. That is an altogether different subject, one I know nothing about. But eve...