Building my own Rowing Skiff
I have long been an admirer of wooden boats. I guess it goes back to the time my father first took me out in our wooden rowboat. I was too young to remember, but I have pictures that prove I was there! Our second boat was a 12 foot aluminum flatbottom from Sears. I was 14, It was OK. Light, stable, and maintenance free. But it clanged and banged, and it sounded like you were rowing a trash can. It was kind of embarrassing for someone at that tender age. I longed for the creaking and croaking of a wooden boat.
As time and life passed, I became busy with other things, and didn't think too much about boats. Family, career, mortgages. You know the drill. However, over the past ten years, I have developed a keen interest in woodworking. I have built everything from decks and porches, to kingsize headboards and matching bureaus, to various tables and bookcases, bandsaw boxes and backyard sheds. It was during a particularly bleak winter day that I started thinking about building myself a rowboat (properly called a rowing skiff) to try and recapture some of those childhood memories and to create some new adult ones.
This website will be a semi-regular accounting of my progress, or lack thereof.
As time and life passed, I became busy with other things, and didn't think too much about boats. Family, career, mortgages. You know the drill. However, over the past ten years, I have developed a keen interest in woodworking. I have built everything from decks and porches, to kingsize headboards and matching bureaus, to various tables and bookcases, bandsaw boxes and backyard sheds. It was during a particularly bleak winter day that I started thinking about building myself a rowboat (properly called a rowing skiff) to try and recapture some of those childhood memories and to create some new adult ones.
This website will be a semi-regular accounting of my progress, or lack thereof.