- 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 Bottom Board-Uh Oh

This is my fifth guideboat so you would think constructing a bottom board would be a piece of cake by

Guideboat Paddles for Sale

While dithering about whether to build another guideboat I created a couple of guideboat paddles. I became intrigued with these

Another Guideboat?

Should I start another guideboat? Do I have it in me to see it through? This will be guideboat number

Present Day Adirondack Guideboat Builders

The Adirondack Museum (Experience) has put out a new video about present day Adirondack boatbuilders. Some of my favorite people

Peak!

We are staying in the North Country longer this year. It is late September and we have had two heavy

Endion Part 3-Some observations

Today Endion looks much different than when the hotel was operating. The hotel and barn are gone replaced by numerous

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

Endion-Part 1

It was a drizzly, cold fourth of July weekend. We were camped at Forked Lake campground in the Adirondacks. Our boys

Launch Day at last!

Finally the day arrives for launching my latest guideboat. It is a day that I sometimes thought would never happen.

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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