- 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.

The Adirondack Guideboat-Merlie Austin’s Guideboat

Last time we visited Bunny Austin’s guideboat shop. Bunny’s family has been in Long Lake for six generations and many

Building an Adirondack Guideboat-Visiting an Old Friend

Time to visit an old friend, Bunny Austin. Bunny has be under the weather lately but I hear that he

Guideboat Paddle Demo at the Adirondack Museum

The Adirondack Museum asked me to be an Artisan-in Residence to demonstrate making guideboat paddles. So from Wednesday through Saturday

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

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