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.
The last (shear) plank
I have run out of my stash of quarter sawn white pine planking stock.  Since I can’t find any more
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Planking almost complete!!
After what seems a very long time, Stew and I hung the next to last strake.  Planking is an arduous
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Planking begins
Before planking can begin there are many small tasks to complete..  These will ensure that, at this early stage, there
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An eager apprentis joins me
In an earlier blog I told how I found my way back to building yet another guideboat.  This time around
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Ode to Bunny
I learned the other day that a true Adirondack mountain man, Bunny Austin,  had passed on.  I treasured my relationship
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My Fifth Guideboat
Some primal urge took over and I start building yet another guideboat.  I fear building boats is in my family
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Search for Elysea
Many years ago my Uncle Don called me.  He asked if we could put him up overnight on his way
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The 2021 Adirondack 90 Miler-Some Thoughts after the Race
Well, Jon and Kevin did a fantastic job of winning the 2021 90 Miler under very harsh conditions.  They came
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The Adirondack 90 Miler Canoe Race-Day 3, 2021
Jon writes:  “Day 3 dawned with a steady, ominous wind in the trees above the hotel, a forbidding sign of
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The 201 Adirondack 90 miler Race-Day 2
Day 2 of the 90Miler starts below the bridge at Long Lake, heads northeast under the Route 30 bridge, past
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