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Comment by Joseph Gill on July 15, 2011 at 11:32am

Very nice post!  It's inspired me to take on a project very similar to yours.  I was going to buy a functional dory from a guy in CO recently barring he made it down the mighty Colorado in it's current high water state.  He ended up crashing his boat at the Needles-Eye Rapid.  It ended up capsizing and careening off several rocks a mile down river.  The only thing that saved his boat from the scrap yard is a river ranger who manned it all the way down to the next take out.  I'll post my pics of things on here as I get them.  Glad to see your dory back from the brink.

Comment by Terry E Walsh on February 5, 2011 at 1:59pm

This is a great story... I have been through there with a rubber raft not sure I would take my woodie through there.... I was always afraid the same would happen to it as did yours.

Comment by Andy Hutchinson on January 25, 2011 at 7:33am

Thanks for the photo sequence. Nice boat, story and repair. Glad you and she are back on the water!

Andy

Comment by Kelly Neu on January 21, 2011 at 11:06pm

Great post. Great save.  The boat looks great!

Comment by Marc Tittle on January 21, 2011 at 7:45pm

Cool post, great to see the whole photo sequence. Marc

Comment by Mike Baker on January 21, 2011 at 4:33pm

Great post Kevin,

The whole reason I built my first boat was because the only boats I could afford at the time needed so much work I thought I could build one from scratch easier. I still think that is mostly true but when I talked to AJ at the show last year  it all made sense when he explained that the materials in a rebuild are mostly free.

When we build a brand new boat we get a great sense of accomplishment, I have to believe taking a boat that others would leave for dead (or one you almost killed yourself!) and bring it back to glory is equal to or maybe even better than that. You all should be proud.

Mike

 

Comment by AJ DeRosa on January 21, 2011 at 7:54am

Nice job Kevin.  The photo story brings back fond memories of the most interesting project that I have ever been involved with.  Most folks would have called it a total wreck but Kevin, who invited Dutch to join his group on this trip, vowed to make it good.  We did alot of head scratching during this project but things did become quite straight forward once we sripped the wreckage down to what was still sound structure.  This was a full on team effort and very satisfying work.  Dutch bought alot of beer that winter.

Comment by Randy Dersham on January 19, 2011 at 2:31pm

It's great to have the photos lined up with the story. 

Thanks for posting this Kevin and Thank you Dutch for sharing your adventure.

Comment by Greg Hatten on January 19, 2011 at 1:52pm

Nice post... great "save" and great write-up, too.  

good work

GH

Comment by Adam "Dutch" Gottschling on January 19, 2011 at 11:42am

hah. what a great post kev.   I havnt seen that picture with Warty in awhile.  Hard to believe it was almost 4 yrs ago. Still remember how cold that water was. That rebuild was very challanging and fun as hell.

 

I have more pics of the rebuild on disk somewhere. I'll try and find it as well as the Crenshaw restore to post. 

 

The morels were delicious!