- Adirondack-Guideboat

Welcome! This is a blog about the Adirondack guideboat. It includes whatever strikes that author’s fancy. For example, you might follow his progress building such an iconic craft, or go along on a 90 mile guideboat race, or learn about some particularly interesting person or happening involving these magnificent wooden boats. Enjoy.

Visit by John Homer

John Homer commented on the beautiful straps that were on my latest guideboat. Indeed, when I looked at all the

The Loon Census

Every summer the Northeast US states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine take a census of the loons

The beavers return!

Last fall I reported on how beavers had set up shop in a bank under a tree next to our

Building an Adirondack Guideboat-The Stems

Now that the ribs are ready, the next step is to finish the stems. I found a red spruce

Building an Adirondack Guideboat-Where did it come from?

Chris Andrie’s comment on the origin of the Adirondack guideboat got me to thinking again about the origins of this

Building an Adirondack Guideboat-Finishing the ribs

As you might recall, the last thing I did on my new guideboat was to “get out the ribs” from

Building an Adirondack Guideboat-Hunting by Guideboat

The Adirondack guideboat was designed and built for hunting. Wealthy “sports” from the eastern cities came to the Adirondack mountains

Building an Adirondack Guideboat-The Flitches arrive!

I have never built a guideboat in the truly traditional manner. The ribs and stems for my boats were made

Building an Adirondack Guideboat-My next boat

In my last post I said that I had decided to build another guideboat. This will be the fourth guideboat

The Adirondack Guideboat-A Christmas Toy (tool)

I have always admired the Lie Nielsen hand tools. They seemed to me to be the Cadillac of the trade.

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