Wooden Boat People
By McKenzieDriftBoat.com
Sanderson will be building a boat in TWO DAYS at the Oregon FFF fly tyers expo this weekend... you are welcome to come and help
Here is the link to the expo that will be happening in Albany this weekend. http://www.nwflytyerexpo.com/index.php The blurd on the link incorrectly says that I (Randy) will be building a boat at the show. All I do is BS with people and work on the computer. Sanderson does all the real work while I point out nit-picky style issues and make him crazy. I will be trying to help but we will have plenty of tools for guests to join in. In you are planning to make it to the show please stop by. We can help you get your wooden boat building fix.
Obviously the entire project doesn't go together in a couple of ten hour days. Sandy and his friend Matt have been prepping all the materials. The side panels are scarfed and have the first coat of epoxy to help prevent any damage in transit or during construction. The frames are glued, plugged and sanded. The seats have been pre-assembled. We will do the actual assembly of parts at the show then bring it back to the shop for the final finish work per the direction of the new owner.
We are building a 16.5 x 50 Tatman. This is a slightly larger version of the traditional 16x48 original design. Some guides in the PNW prefer the slightly larger boat that helps with a super-sized load but the boat is not too big for the rocky water of the upper McKenzie or the Middle Fork of the Salmon in Idaho.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Knight on
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Take lots of pics if you can - sounds like a fun way to showcase your boats.
We just attended our regional fly fishing expo and there were some boat builders there... but no framed woodies of course.
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Permalink Reply by Brad Dimock on
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In the video Randy mentions the legend of Keith Steele building a drift boat in a day. Martin Litton actually wrote a story for Sunset Magazine about this, including pictures and a time line. I've got a copy somewhere. Steele didn't do it alone--the whole family was involved, but it is convincing. Martin said the problem was Steele began to think he could ALWAYS build a boat in one day. So when Martin ordered a Grand Canyon boat one time, and Steele said it was ready, Martin drove to Oregon to get it. When he got there, Mrs, Steele told him the Keith had not yet started it. ("She was ashen with embarrassment" Martin recalls).
That's when Martin went shopping for a new boatbuilder and stumbled across Jerry Briggs. The boat Litton and Briggs concocted--a variation on Briggs's Rogue River Special--became the best known and most praised drift boat in Grand Canyon to this day.
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