Black Eagle mini dory (was: baby Briggs build) - Wooden Boat People2024-03-28T19:06:27Zhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/forum/topics/yb?commentId=1312281%3AComment%3A223158&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBrad is pretty tall, some of…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-28:1312281:Comment:2498742021-04-28T20:12:18.665ZRick Newmanhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/RickNewman
<p>Brad is pretty tall, some of the folks I have seen on his site normal sized and a few gals are smaller!</p>
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<p>Brad is pretty tall, some of the folks I have seen on his site normal sized and a few gals are smaller!</p>
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<p></p> That's the funny thing...it's…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-28:1312281:Comment:2499732021-04-28T17:39:26.922ZShawn Bakerhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/ShawnBaker
<p>That's the funny thing...it's actually a bit larger than its predecessor the Lil Bastard:</p>
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<p>And at least a foot longer than Dimock's doryaks...but I think he and his crew are smaller people. I'm 6'-5", 200#…</p>
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<p>That's the funny thing...it's actually a bit larger than its predecessor the Lil Bastard:</p>
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<p>And at least a foot longer than Dimock's doryaks...but I think he and his crew are smaller people. I'm 6'-5", 200#</p>
<p><a href="https://fretwaterboatworks.com/boats/peekaboo/" target="_blank">https://fretwaterboatworks.com/boats/peekaboo/</a></p> Thanks for sharing, you make…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-28:1312281:Comment:2499702021-04-28T15:41:45.094ZRick Newmanhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/RickNewman
<p>Thanks for sharing, you make Black Eagle look like it is small!</p>
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<p>Thanks for sharing, you make Black Eagle look like it is small!</p>
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<p></p> Launch day photos:
Pics from…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-28:1312281:Comment:2498022021-04-28T14:57:01.419ZShawn Bakerhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/ShawnBaker
<p>Launch day photos:<br></br><br></br></p>
<p>Pics from my buddy Jeff Gilman and his lovely wife:…</p>
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<p>Launch day photos:<br/><br/></p>
<p>Pics from my buddy Jeff Gilman and his lovely wife:</p>
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The Mandan…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-19:1312281:Comment:2496232021-04-19T14:32:00.060ZShawn Bakerhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/ShawnBaker
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<p>The Mandan and the South Piegan Blackfeet, among other Native Americans, knew of the falls. Salish Indians would often hunt bison in the area on a seasonal basis, but no permanent settlements existed near the Great Falls for much of prehistory. Around 1600, Piegan Blackfoot Indians, migrating west, entered the area, pushing the Salish back into the Rocky Mountains and claiming the area as their own.The Great Falls of the Missouri remained in the tribal…</p>
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<p>The Mandan and the South Piegan Blackfeet, among other Native Americans, knew of the falls. Salish Indians would often hunt bison in the area on a seasonal basis, but no permanent settlements existed near the Great Falls for much of prehistory. Around 1600, Piegan Blackfoot Indians, migrating west, entered the area, pushing the Salish back into the Rocky Mountains and claiming the area as their own.The Great Falls of the Missouri remained in the tribal territory of the Blackfeet until colonials claimed the region in 1803.</p>
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<p>The light-brown and red-brown sandstone layers beneath all the falls are 115-million-year-old products of the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era, when modern mammal and bird groups, along with the first flowering plants, also emerged. Later in the nineteenth century, geologists named these old riverbed sandstones the Kootenai Formation.</p>
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<p>On June 13, 1805, Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition became the first white person to see the Great Falls (the largest of the five waterfalls). On the second day that the expedition camped near the series of falls, Meriwether Lewis discovered Black Eagle Falls. I arrived at another cataract of 26 feet...below this fall at a little distance a beautiful little Island well timbered is situated about the middle of the river. in this Island on a Cottonwood tree an Eagle has placed her nest; a more inaccessible spot I believe she could not have found; for neither man nor beast dare pass those gulphs which separate her little domain from the shores. the water is also broken in such manner as it descends over this pitch that the mist or sprey rises to a considerable height. this fall is certainly much the greatest I ever beheld except those two which I have mentioned below. it is incomparably a greater cataract and a more noble interesting object than the celebrated falls of Potomac or Soolkiln. It is unclear which member of the expedition named the falls, but the expedition called them "Upper Pitch."</p>
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<p>The falls were eventually named for the black eagle which Lewis saw on June 14, 1805. </p>
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<p><span dir="auto">Immigrant Olav Carl "OC" Seltzer was a longtime Great Falls resident and probably the next most prominent local artist after Charlie Russell.</span></p>
<p><span dir="auto"><br/>He painted his interpretation of Captain Meriwether Lewis seeing the black eagle in her nest perched on the falls during their passage through the area and portage of the 5 major waterfalls.</span> </p>
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<p>Captain William F. Raynolds, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, passing this way in command of a U.S. government expedition in 1860, reported that there was still an eagle's nest in a cottonwood tree on the island. Moreover, he observed a specimen of "this peculiarly American bird" perched in a nearby tree, and thought it might be the very same bird Lewis had seen 55 years before. That is remotely possible, considering at least one captive black eagle is thought to have lived nearly fifty years during the mid-twentieth century, but the average age, even in 1805, was at least somewhat less.</p>
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<p>In 1872, Thomas P. Roberts, a survey engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway, formally named the cataract "Black Eagle Falls" after the incident recorded in Lewis' journal.</p>
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<p>The first dam on the site, built and opened in 1890, was a timber-and-rock crib dam. This structure was the first hydroelectric dam built in Montana and the first built on the Missouri River. The dam helped give the city of Great Falls the nickname "The Electric City." </p>
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<p>On April 14, 1908, at about 2:30 PM, Hauser Dam—a steel dam about 90 miles upstream from Great Falls— failed. A surge of water 25-30 feet high swept downstream. A Great Northern Railway locomotive was dispatched to the city of Great Falls, warning stations along the way about the dam break. Workers at the Boston and Montana Smelter in Great Falls improvised a wing dam to deflect the floodwaters away from the smelter site and dynamited a portion of Black Eagle Dam to allow the floodwaters to go downstream.<br/><br/></p>
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<p>A second dam, built of concrete in 1926 and opened in 1927, replaced the first dam, which was not removed and lies submerged in the reservoir.</p>
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<p>Since 1988, the Long Pool and the Missouri River in and around the city of Great Falls have been listed as an "impaired" waterway under the 1972 Clean Water Act. This area was first listed as impaired due to sedimentation, siltation, and suspended solids in 1988. High levels of chromium, mercury, and selenium were listed as impairing factors in 1992. High turbidity (haziness of water due to suspended particles) was added as an impairing factor in 2000. Sources of these impairments include Black Eagle Dam, upstream abandoned mines, irrigation runoff, industrial sources, and stormwater runoff.<br/><br/><span dir="auto">So in the tradition of Martin Litton naming his dories after natural wonders destroyed by the hand of man, I christened her the Black Eagle.</span><br/><br/><img src="https://www.mountainbuzz.com/attachments/1618842535590-png.64902/?hash=19a23ae74db90e6efa49abdb1fe98d05" style="width: auto;" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable" alt="64902"/></p>
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<p></p> Absolutely!
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tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-18:1312281:Comment:2497602021-04-18T01:51:11.129ZRick Newmanhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/RickNewman
<p>Absolutely!</p>
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<p>Absolutely!</p>
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<p></p> It's been fun watching this b…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-17:1312281:Comment:2496172021-04-17T14:49:47.104ZDavid Wittonhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/DavidWitton
<p>It's been fun watching this build - I love it when folks come up with new designs, it moves the whole "wooden dory" thing forward. Let us know how it rows!</p>
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<p>It's been fun watching this build - I love it when folks come up with new designs, it moves the whole "wooden dory" thing forward. Let us know how it rows!</p>
<p></p> 68: Hatches, latches, and hi…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-16:1312281:Comment:2499362021-04-16T14:26:05.171ZShawn Bakerhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/ShawnBaker
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<p>68: Hatches, latches, and hinges.<br></br>Varnish on the gunnels was still tacky, so no oarlock stanchions or deck hardware (yet). Will do that and gaskets tonight. <br></br>Should get a weight on all 3 boats in the morning.<br></br><br></br>Launch day tomorrow!!</p>
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<p>Stern hatch is cavernous. will do gaskets tonight.</p>
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<p><span dir="auto">lower side panels. The spar varnish over epoxy/glass over the stained wood is a bit amber…</span></p>
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<p>68: Hatches, latches, and hinges.<br/>Varnish on the gunnels was still tacky, so no oarlock stanchions or deck hardware (yet). Will do that and gaskets tonight. <br/>Should get a weight on all 3 boats in the morning.<br/><br/>Launch day tomorrow!!</p>
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<p>Stern hatch is cavernous. will do gaskets tonight.</p>
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<p><span dir="auto">lower side panels. The spar varnish over epoxy/glass over the stained wood is a bit amber colored, but I like it. May sand it and clear coat it later, but needed to get it ready for the water.</span></p>
<p><img src="https://www.mountainbuzz.com/attachments/1618583065539-png.64792/?hash=981d770140b5767717d60dc19a8f4d5a" style="width: auto;" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable" alt="64792"/></p> You continue to do fine work.…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-15:1312281:Comment:2496122021-04-15T15:08:07.326ZRick Newmanhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/RickNewman
<p>You continue to do fine work. Good luck on the maiden voyage!</p>
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<p>You continue to do fine work. Good luck on the maiden voyage!</p>
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<p></p> Nearing the end of this activ…tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2021-04-15:1312281:Comment:2499312021-04-15T14:30:50.259ZShawn Bakerhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/ShawnBaker
<p>Nearing the end of this active build...launch day is on Sunday 4/17!<br></br><br></br><br></br></p>
<p><span dir="auto">67: varnish! Both the unpainted portion of the sides, the gunnels, and two pairs of oars got varnish last night.</span><br></br><br></br><img alt="64753" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable" src="https://www.mountainbuzz.com/attachments/1618496346098-png.64753/?hash=8c2236f0c501843e1ca067ddf557280a" style="width: auto;"></img></p>
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<p>These are actually the oars for<span> Lil Bastard...started them last fall before this boat project began.<br></br></span></p>
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<p>Nearing the end of this active build...launch day is on Sunday 4/17!<br/><br/><br/></p>
<p><span dir="auto">67: varnish! Both the unpainted portion of the sides, the gunnels, and two pairs of oars got varnish last night.</span><br/><br/><img src="https://www.mountainbuzz.com/attachments/1618496346098-png.64753/?hash=8c2236f0c501843e1ca067ddf557280a" style="width: auto;" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable" alt="64753"/></p>
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<p>These are actually the oars for<span> Lil Bastard...started them last fall before this boat project began.<br/></span></p>
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<div><div><span>7.5' long, 7" wide blades since they're only 24" long. Crazy light doug fir shafts a bit under 1.5" dia.</span></div>
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<div><div><span>Jatoba and curly maple accents...even the shafts...made from all scraps!</span></div>
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<p><span>Set of 9-foot driftboat oars I'm building to consign at the local fly shop. All douglas fir and walnut.</span><br/><span><img src="https://www.mountainbuzz.com/attachments/1618496973089-png.64755/?hash=8c2236f0c501843e1ca067ddf557280a" style="width: auto;" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable" alt="64755"/></span></p>