Wooden Driftboat Rendezvous III
- This topic has 34 replies, 8 voices, and was last updated Nov 21, 2008 at 2:05 pm by
.
-
Posts
-
We had another rendezvous this weekend, and I posted a video blog of the event.
http://www.flyflinger.com/wpblog/?p=282
I’ll try to share some of the photos later.
Thanks, Corey. Cameron, that’s my square ender in the foreground. It’s a great boat for slower tailwaters. Floats higher, more roomy and stable, takes a 15hp if you need one, still white water capable. Interesting history since it was the first to evolve in the McKenzie boats–around 1920–and is the predecessor to the now more common double ender. Also known as a Rapid Robert.
Cool, Dave. Post some photos sometime. I’ve known of Roger’s website since he started it. Everyone who loves driftboats owes Roger a debt for researching and preserving their history. Roger collaborated with Ray Heater some, as I am sure you know. I built two of Ray’s RR kits.
My friend Karl, built one of Tatman’s kits a few years ago, and we have gotten together every September since. If anyone has a woodie and wants to join us for the event, it’s held the second weekend in September on the White River near Cotter. We are trying to plan a winter or spring fling also. We always have fun listening to comments on the boats from folks who do not know what they are. One man Sunday morning stopped me in a restaurant and wanted to know if the anchor foot release was a keel.
That is an awesome drift boat, Scott!! I love the wooden drift boats and the side-by-side comparison is great, you can really see a big difference in dimensions, in your photograph. I am guessing that the gentlemen, in the aft compartment of your boat, is just hanging out in the cocktail lounge?
I fall asleep at night dreaming of being a part of something like this.
Very nice.
I fall asleep at night dreaming of being a part of something like this.
Tim: “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” – TE Lawrence
You are welcome to come anytime. We will find a way to put you to work at the oars at least part of the time.
Ben – a lounge lizard in my boat? Nah. Everyone traded at the oars and all took turns rowing and fishing.
Thanks for the nice words everybody.
Very nice, Dave.
Both my boats have been 16 footers, and I really want a 14 footer for my personal use. The design seems more pure on the smaller boat.
Awesome, Dave. How do you find rowing the trapper with the oarsman’s bench so far into the bow?
Ray has a 14-foot RR I really like the looks of.
Scott, Dave et al…….
Thought you might be interested:
http://www.woodenboatpeople.com/video/1312281:Video:525
http://www.woodenboatpeople.com/
Tatman Boats has changed hands:
Cool video. I think that’s A.J.’s walk-in winter camp where the T-Pee is set up. Cool idea.
A.J. is also suppose to have a stable of boats now, 12-13 last I heard.
Scott,
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” – TE Lawrence
That is a gem of a quote, especially when read from a cubicle! Where did it come from?
D.Tatman Boats has changed hands:
This is really bad news.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.