Randy Dersham's Posts - Wooden Boat People2024-03-29T02:20:13ZRandy Dershamhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/2he24akna7y2zhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2518868619?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://woodenboatpeople.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=2he24akna7y2z&xn_auth=noJust for funtag:woodenboatpeople.org,2009-05-29:1312281:BlogPost:91932009-05-29T19:00:00.000ZRandy Dershamhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/2he24akna7y2z
Click in the water area of this image and you can feed the fish.…
Click in the water area of this image and you can feed the fish. Enjoy.<br />
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<a href="http://www.klcc.org/audio/mckenzie.mp3">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO KPLU's SHOW ON WOODEN DRIFT BOATS</a><br />
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This year is the 150th anniversary of Lane County, Oregon. As part of the celebration KPLU is doing a series of mini documentaries on local areas and inventions that have make influenced Lane County. One of them is the McKenzie River Drift Boat. Click on the link above this photo of Greg Hatten and Jess Burns on the water during our Wooden…
<a href="http://www.klcc.org/audio/mckenzie.mp3">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO KPLU's SHOW ON WOODEN DRIFT BOATS</a><br />
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This year is the 150th anniversary of Lane County, Oregon. As part of the celebration KPLU is doing a series of mini documentaries on local areas and inventions that have make influenced Lane County. One of them is the McKenzie River Drift Boat. Click on the link above this photo of Greg Hatten and Jess Burns on the water during our Wooden Boat Parade.<br />
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So many people helped pull this years show off. We had our best press coverage ever with KLCC doing a mini documentary on the influence of the McKenzie River Boat and our <a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/12613946-41/story.csp">local newspaper covering the event in this mornings City/Region section</a>. This awareness will go a long was to spark a wider knowledge of the importance of the McKenzie River Drift Boat and get us started on a historical museum.…
So many people helped pull this years show off. We had our best press coverage ever with KLCC doing a mini documentary on the influence of the McKenzie River Boat and our <a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/12613946-41/story.csp">local newspaper covering the event in this mornings City/Region section</a>. This awareness will go a long was to spark a wider knowledge of the importance of the McKenzie River Drift Boat and get us started on a historical museum. Great work everyone... and a special thanks to Greg Hatten for managing the parade. That was a big job.<br />
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Here's a small slide show preview of the day. I'll post a more complete set of photos later. If anyone has photographs they want to include in the slide show please email them to me at randy.dersham@gmail.com.<br />
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Thank you all!<br />
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<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FMcKenzieRiverDriftBoats%2Falbumid%2F5329033895161810417%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed>Building a boat in two days at the 2009 FFF Fly Tying Expotag:woodenboatpeople.org,2009-03-16:1312281:BlogPost:60102009-03-16T03:32:36.000ZRandy Dershamhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/2he24akna7y2z
Can you cram 100 hours of boat building into two twelve hour days?<br />
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Sandy and I found out the answer was no. But it was a lot of fun and a great attraction. We had done quite a bit of prep on the frames, side panels, and seats then staged everything the night before the show opened and glued the front stem and one side of the transom the night before the show so it would have overnight to dry. The next day we wanted to get the bottom on the boat but we talked too much and…
Can you cram 100 hours of boat building into two twelve hour days?<br />
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Sandy and I found out the answer was no. But it was a lot of fun and a great attraction. We had done quite a bit of prep on the frames, side panels, and seats then staged everything the night before the show opened and glued the front stem and one side of the transom the night before the show so it would have overnight to dry. The next day we wanted to get the bottom on the boat but we talked too much and even managed to forget to cut the drainage holes in the frames.<br />
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The second morning the drainage holes were in and the bottom went down but not before noon. Then outside rails and almost one inside rail. But the day came to an an end and we had to admit that we were about five hours short of our goal of having both rails on, the stem and transom cut and the shear line sanded out.<br />
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Thank you Greg Hatten for coming by and helping out.<br />
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We donated our time to the FFF, and enjoyed this experience. The boat, trailer and oars was auctioned off that evening. It went for a little less than half price. That's a bit low but in this economy most of the auction items were selling below normal. The final price was $3,475.00 it was a great once a year deal for someone and made a good profit for the FFF.<br />
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I hope to see some of you there next year.Recovery photos of the wrapped boat in Whitehorse.tag:woodenboatpeople.org,2008-11-28:1312281:BlogPost:17622008-11-28T20:00:00.000ZRandy Dershamhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/2he24akna7y2z
Only two days after I posted the YouTube video of the Whitehorse Rapid boat wrap Sanderson was contacted by Robb Sipler. Robb was cruizin' the net and found WoodenBoatPeople then realized he was part of one of our blog posts.<br />
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Robb helped in the salvage of that boat and I hope will post a bit more of the complete story in the near future. He joined as a member on this site and then forwarded me these photos of the salvage. Right now he's still booked up with fall guiding trips but will have…
Only two days after I posted the YouTube video of the Whitehorse Rapid boat wrap Sanderson was contacted by Robb Sipler. Robb was cruizin' the net and found WoodenBoatPeople then realized he was part of one of our blog posts.<br />
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Robb helped in the salvage of that boat and I hope will post a bit more of the complete story in the near future. He joined as a member on this site and then forwarded me these photos of the salvage. Right now he's still booked up with fall guiding trips but will have more info for us in the next month.<br />
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The recovery was done by Mark Angle. Mark does the tough jobs that no one else can do on the Deschutes in Oregon. We should all support and thank him for his many hours of dangerous volunteer work in body recovery on that river.<br />
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Read more about Mark Angle here: <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/the_monday_profile_mark_angel.html">http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/the_monday_profile_mark_angel.html</a><br />
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I had to post this YouTube video of exactly what not to do in Whitehorse Rapids on the Deschutes River in Oregon.<br />
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I've been told this boat had to be cut off the rock. I'll try to find out more about the actual story and post more…
I had to post this YouTube video of exactly what not to do in Whitehorse Rapids on the Deschutes River in Oregon.<br />
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I've been told this boat had to be cut off the rock. I'll try to find out more about the actual story and post more later.New Flicker Photo Upload area activatedtag:woodenboatpeople.org,2008-11-08:1312281:BlogPost:12222008-11-08T05:00:00.000ZRandy Dershamhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/2he24akna7y2z
If you are a Flickr user it is now easier than ever to share photographs with everyone else here at wooden boat people. Simply click on the PHOTOS button on the navigation panel. In the new page that load you click on the ADD PHOTOS link on the top right. It's kind of small and text only so don't miss it. Once the new Add Photos page loads notice the new Flickr logo near the center right of the page. There it is! Click on that and follow the directions to allow your WOODENBOATPEOPLE account to…
If you are a Flickr user it is now easier than ever to share photographs with everyone else here at wooden boat people. Simply click on the PHOTOS button on the navigation panel. In the new page that load you click on the ADD PHOTOS link on the top right. It's kind of small and text only so don't miss it. Once the new Add Photos page loads notice the new Flickr logo near the center right of the page. There it is! Click on that and follow the directions to allow your WOODENBOATPEOPLE account to have permission to talk with your Flickr account. That's a one time only set up... then Whoop, you have access to a bunch of powerful selections that can load images one at a time, per specific tags, or your whole darn collection if you want.<br />
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I'm going to start tagging my Flickr photographs with a WOODENBOATPEOPLE tag (simply enter that text in the "tag" field) then when I upload to WOODENBOATPEOPLE it only takes a couple of clicks to select all photographs tagged WOODENBOATPEOPLE and then share the latest stuff. The best part is I only uploaded once, to Flickr, then all the information is moved automatically. Wahoo.<br />
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Notice there is a nifty email address that you can also send photographs to that will automatically load a photo to our site. This was created for camera phone users... so snap that great shot while you're on the river and share it with all of us before you get to the next eddy2009 McKenzie River Drift Boat Poster to be illustrated by Dan Burrtag:woodenboatpeople.org,2008-10-27:1312281:BlogPost:10042008-10-27T16:00:00.000ZRandy Dershamhttp://woodenboatpeople.org/profile/2he24akna7y2z
I was lucky to meet up with Dan Burr earlier this year during some business with the <a href="http://www.gregboats.com/">boat shop.</a> I asked him if he would be interested in illustrating the poster for the 2009 Boat Show at Eagle Rock Lodge. He said yes... I feel pretty fortunate. He is working on the poster now and we should be able to share it with everyone in a month or so. Below are a couple of Dan's Illustrations.<br />
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Please remember that I asked for a quick poster. I'm sure it will look…
I was lucky to meet up with Dan Burr earlier this year during some business with the <a href="http://www.gregboats.com/">boat shop.</a> I asked him if he would be interested in illustrating the poster for the 2009 Boat Show at Eagle Rock Lodge. He said yes... I feel pretty fortunate. He is working on the poster now and we should be able to share it with everyone in a month or so. Below are a couple of Dan's Illustrations.<br />
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Please remember that I asked for a quick poster. I'm sure it will look awesome but I expect the poster will have a much more stylized look rather than these detailed illustrations. But these paintings are so great that I had to share them. <a href="http://www.danburr.com/prints/printpage.html">Click on this link to look up Dan's website.</a><br />
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<p>This is the first post on the new Wooden Boat People social network. It is my hope that this form and social site can be used by boat builders to ask questions, advertise business, help each other, and generally help us all be better builders, better boaters, and better friends.</p>
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<p>Enjoy, sign up, and spread the word.</p>
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<p>This is the first post on the new Wooden Boat People social network. It is my hope that this form and social site can be used by boat builders to ask questions, advertise business, help each other, and generally help us all be better builders, better boaters, and better friends.</p>
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<p>Enjoy, sign up, and spread the word.</p>