Thursday, October 23, 2014. Bettie was specially commissioned from Cascade in 1979 with a flush deck and 14 extra inches of freeboard. The hull is hand laid, fiberglass mat, and the deck is solid, marine grade birch plywood with a fiberglass top and maple stringers. And there are no leaks. Which is almost unheard of in the boating world.

This is a first hand account of the building of a Native American birch bark canoe, as seen through the eyes of a European traveller in 1827. Sketches of a tour to the Lakes, of the character and customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of incidents connected with the treaty of Fond du Lac. CDN Canoes - Historically Speaking.

This is what I woke up to last Sunday. Winter storm Jonas visited us and gave us our first snow of the season. CapnRehab was stuck at home by the storm without any project supplies and wound up extremely bored.

A quest for the technomadic lifestyle. I think I can say with some authority that that guy had. Much less pristine rolls of fluffy two-ply. it all makes for an adventure.

One man, One idea, One journey. The Best Blog List! Saturday, July 6, 2013. Health costs for the fam have been paid for, leaving me at 0, but the dream is still out there! And there are plenty of boats out there for sure.

But, my favorite because there are hundreds of them are all of the little magic moments. Turtle! You hear your own voice cry, giddy as a five-year old. I saw a turtle! I saw the green flash! .

It is time for us to move onto our next adventure,. So we have decided to sell Our Rose. For specifications on Our Rose please visit. Monday, 20 November 2017. Lombok, Bali, Singapore, Malaysia. Ubud in Bali was such a beautiful catch up with Surya and his family. We were treated like family, Darryl, John, Christine and JPh also came and stayed there.