Well finally got a chance to get back to the drifter. 43 years of paint removed, now just sanding and a tsp scrub. looking for interior suggestions. I'm thinking on epoxy finish on the ribs, a line X type of finish on the bottom and either oil or varnish on the plywood sides.…

When I made the decision to build a "Kingfisher" Driftboat, a whole lot of other issues came up. Such as the fact that my shop is filled with construction equipment from my construction business that I am no longer doing. I've retired right! Well that doesn't mean I'm no longer attached to the stuff. It's just plain hard to let go of stuff.

My shop is 24 x 36 but with everything I've got in it, it's realistically has a working area of 10 x 10. Stuff has to be moved out, given away or…

I have a 16 MDB that has a slow leak on the bottom ..the leak is on both sides from the bottom I can see where it is splitting at the seam at the chime..Need advice on have it repaired...I'll say thank you first to Mike Baker for taking the time and pointing me in the right direction...The last time it was repaied was 2009 by Tatman...Any help and advice would greatly be appriciated..

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Joey Schott's Blog from Chesapeake Light Craft--An Inside Look at Wooden Boat Creations

Very helpful information, check it out!

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http://blog.pendleton-usa.com/2014/05/09/why-we-do-this-historic-wooden-boats-on-the-colorado-river-in-the-grand-canyon/

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To my fellow Wooden Boat Builders,

The plans for the Port Ludlow Fly fishing Pram are available on Google Books at;…

  After searching through all the wooden drift boat pictures I could find, I wasn't able to see exactly what I had in mind concerning a removable rear casting brace system.  After weeks of fretting and obsessing, I designed my own plan.  I wanted something that could go from a fly-fishing trip with a person in the front and back of the boat, to a whitewater float trip with…

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Can anyone help me identify this boat?  There are no makings that I can find.  It is 20 feet long and 80" wide in the center.  All wood.  The top arcs slightly from front to back and the bottom is essentially flat.  It's in good shape though in the midst of a restoration.  It looks like mahogany on top.  We suspect there may be a mast (buried in the pile of junk in the pics) but not sure.

Even if you can get me going in a direction without a positive ID, it would be…

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thanks for accepting my request to join "Wooden Boat People".

Please find a link below which will lead you to a blog of my restoration of the 1961 RIVA Tritone #156. A hell lot of work during the past 6 years, and it will come to an end next spring.

Riva Restoration

Maybe you will find some tips and tricks?! it is not a commercial website :-)! Just for my…

In 1974 or 75 I was doing a hike called the Hopi Salt Trail in Grand Canyon where we entered on a side canyon to the Little Colorado and scrambled down to the Little Colorado and then hiked down the Little Colorado and down to the confluence with the Colorado River, caught up with the Beamer Trail and took that over to the base of the Tanner Trail and went out the Tanner Trail, all in 7 days.  While walking on the Beamer Trail about 500 feet above the river every once in a while you were…