If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mill Creek 16.5 Gallery
A gallery of photos documenting my build of a Chesapeake Light Craft Mill Creek 16.5 tandem kayak in the fall of 2024
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Boatbuilding, gateway drugs, and the pusher
Ever since I was a kid, I romanticized the idea of designing and building a boat. As a young man of 11-12, I spent my evenings poring through sailing magazines and obsessing over things like hull shapes, keel designs, and accommodation plans. I would fill tablets of graph paper with my own designs for cruising…
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Not Quite An Expert 