- 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.

Planking begins

Before planking can begin there are many small tasks to complete.. These will ensure that, at this early stage, there

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

Ode to Bunny

I learned the other day that a true Adirondack mountain man, Bunny Austin, had passed on. I treasured my relationship

My Fifth Guideboat

Some primal urge took over and I start building yet another guideboat. I fear building boats is in my family

Search for Elysea

Many years ago my Uncle Don called me. He asked if we could put him up overnight on his way

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

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

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

The 2021 Adirondack 90 Miler-Day 1

The first day of the 90 Miler starts in Old Forge, heads northeast through the Fulton Chain of Lakes, into

The 2021 Adirondack 90 Mile Canoe Race

As you may know I follow the 90 miler very closely each year. My friend Jon owns the Thankful, a

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