The Bear Mountain Boat Shop

Yep,
Yurok.
Maybe they could teach me to put a motor on it.
BTW- No redwood dugouts until you get farther upstream.

That's OK, as long as it tastes good, right?
Hey,
Your avatar looks like me trying to paddle downstream on the lower portion of the Klammath River, near the mouth when the afternoon wind comes up.
(Three strokes foward and two strokes backwards)

mtpocket wrote:Come to think of it, it even tastes like sanding flour.

(Looks like I'm not the only paste eater on this website.

I don't eat poi...like spackling paste. :laughing What can I say?... I was always one of the kids that liked to eat the paste glue back in grammer school. :big grin I checked out that club. I watched them stroke a six man single outrigger every morning and those Kanes looked strong and fast! Glen, ...

Thanks Todd, It's reasurring to know that my mind is working OK. :very confused The canoes that we initially used to get our merit badge, then for 2 and 5 day river trips were old heavy fiberglass flat bottomed jobs and they had a small keel also. I don't know whose design they were. We spent about ...

Todd, Very nice session there on flotation and what it takes to bail out a canoe. It's been quite a long time since I swamped a canoe in a lake, so long ago in fact... I was in the Boy Scouts and we swamped them on purpose. It was during some exercises we had to do to get our Canoeing Merit Badge. S...

Hey Patrick,
That turned out to be a nice Miigwan in your cap, eh?
Nice job of documenting your project.
Please make sure you post this project in the Project Directory, OK?

Aloha Kent, I did an "admin-sneaky technique" and put Hoe wa'a in you Avatar. I made it for you, not me. (I'll come up with something else for myself later, when I get a chance) Meanwhile... Are these guys rivals with your club? I was going to try and catch you, but you snuck off before I ...

I love it Hoz!

I made this Avatar for Kent, I'm hoping he takes a break during his vacation and gets online with us.

Hey,
That's a nice Avatar you got there.
You sure got that posted fast!

Yeah Kurt,
Thanks for the info.
I've put a few of those sites in my Favorites.
I think I'm gonna build a planing form using Tom's info.

Hey Geir,
Might even be a bit rough for a sea kayak, so keep the hatches battened down and spend some time on the computer. :computer fight

Oh Yeah... I know who your taklking about.
The guy with the braided rope accent stripe, right?
Hmmm... I wonder if he ever decided on a name for his Redbird yet.

It's healing up just fine.
That guy sound like quite the blow hard! :lol:

Clock Builder, Eh?
Pretty impressive!!!
I've never built a clock, but I've been accused of telling someone how to build one, when asked what time it is, a few times. :lol: