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.
Endion-Part 2, We talk with Tom
Fran and I decide to visit Tom Bissell. Tom has lived at Endion all his life, although he was not
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Endion-Part 1
It was a drizzly, cold fourth of July weekend. We were camped at Forked Lake campground in the Adirondacks. Our boys
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Launch Day at last!
Finally the day arrives for launching my latest guideboat. It is a day that I sometimes thought would never happen.
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She arrives in the North Country
It is finally time to pack up and head north for the summer. Our son Robert has agreed to come
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The Decks!
When you are finally getting to making the decks you know you are nearly done. There is a clever display
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She’s born!
It never occurred to me until now. A nascent guideboat does not start to exist until she comes off the
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Finishing the outer hull
It is almost time for the hull to come off of the builder’s jig. I can’t wait to see what
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A Wonderful Surprise!
This week I got an email with photos from my friend Jon. Jon bought my third guideboat, the Thankful, three
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Breaking News-Guideboat born!
When it came time to take my latest guideboat off the builder’s gig I was full of apprehension. It meant
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Gunwales-a structural key
“A fifteen foot ship that weighs only sixty pounds and carries a thousand pounds of load over rough water; which
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