It seems as though time has been running through my fingers like water... without all that much Petrel building progress to show for it. Sur...

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...