Article: Microskiff Mania
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Yesterday I pulled together all the Gheenoe forum posts into one blog entry for the new Gear Reviews section. Today I am re-publishing a shorter but more coherent article that ran in Fly Rod & Reel about the background of the Gheenoe and the Microskiff movement:
BACK IN THE SIXTIES, a designer at the Kennedy Space Center named Harley Gheen was looking for a better way to fish shallow water. The canoes of the day hadn’t advanced much from the old wooden dugout design and their round bottoms weren’t well suited for still water. (Try standing in a round-bottomed canoe and you’ll soon know why). Gheen, a trained draftsman, sketched out a new type of craft: it had the same general shape as a canoe but with built-in outriggers on the bottom of the hull, for stability, and a square stern for a motor. Soon enough he left his job at the Space Center and started selling his craft, which he called the “Gheenoe” (an amalgamation of the creator’s name and “canoe,” it is pronounced “Ghee-noo,” not “Jee-noo.”) He had inadvertently created what would eventually be known as the world’s first “microskiff.”
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