A 12ft wooden skiff I designed and built. There's a build video on this channel, and I recently had an article published on Small Craft Advisor substack detailing its features.
Thanks for posting this video ! I grew up around water and and have built/repaired boats and canoes. This reminds me of exploring streams and estuaries in Western New York. Now too old and feeble to enjoy such adventures myself. It is good to know the next generation still enjoys them. Love your boat! A boat that is capable of both oar and sail is a joy.
What a gorgeous little boat and a great video , "a remedy that can't be bottled & sold" indeed , thank you for inspiring me to get my kayak outta the barn & use it...
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Nice little boat - a throwback to the old days (before my time, even though I'm getting to be an old fart) when home-built boats weren't such a rare thing. Also, I think I saw a Mitchell 300 fishing reel in that shot of the boat while you were going down the road. That's one that dominated the spinning-reel market in the 50s and 60s.
I mainly grew up on the west coast and paddled in rec kayaks and ocean kayaks in the ocean and whitewater. Now that I'm in my 40s on the east coast row boating is becoming advantageous to me. I want to get a small rowing dinghy one and add lights, mp3/am/fm, vhf mobile transceiver, flush mount compass, transducer and mirror on one to enjoy.
The boat is made tight mostly by creating a good flush-fitting joint between the sides and the bottom. The thick adhesive used on that joint also helps fill gaps and imperfections. That's wonderful! Glad to hear it.
The topography difference between Middle Tennessee and East Tennessee means most of the creeks in East Tennessee are either small or whitewater. Even the rivers without dams here are too shoaly for a boat like yours. But we do have about dozen lakes on the Tennessee and its tributaries.
@@cumberlandrover I've floated the Holston from Cherokee Dam to the Tennessee River in Knoxville in a kayak. There's several stretches where you have to push with your knuckles. I imagine you could just wade and pull through those sections. I probably should have. I've been wanting to do headwaters to ends for the Holston, Clinch, French Broad and a few others. However, the French Broad has some Class IV between Asheville and Hot Springs.
There are a number of "real" solo canoes that are light years beyond Old Town's 'Pack' in terms of what a good paddler can do with them, so "best ever" is something any serious canoe paddler would take issue with (for example, I use a Mohawk Odyssey 14 for most river trips, backwater adventures and fishing. It maneuvers far better than a 'Pack', is much faster, it will literally dance when driven by a skilled paddler using a single-blade paddle, and it can handle a much wider range of water conditions including sizeable waves and rapids). But, none of the good solo canoes that exist are dirt-cheap like the 'Pack', so there's that aspect to consider.
Old town Packs are awesome! I wish they still made them. Yeah, there are other lighter "better" solo canoes out there - but for an all around solo, the old packs were and still are awesome. I wish I would have bought one years ago, but already had 3 canoes (including a mad river freedom 14 solo roylex boat - also light, but not quite as stable - a great solo moderate whitewater river boat though). Really, any decent canoe is fine, but the lighter ones are more fun to move places.
I wished real rowing boats were more available and affordable. Around here, they run about $7,000. They are all home built, the few that come to market. Boats designed to take a motor row poorly, well, inefficiently.
What is the boat you are using?
A 12ft wooden skiff I designed and built. There's a build video on this channel, and I recently had an article published on Small Craft Advisor substack detailing its features.
@@cumberlandrover Thats a nice boat, well done.
Beautiful adventure and scenery!
❤ I am glad that you respect the water as if it’s pristine and has been for the last 80 years ❤
excellent thank you for your hard work in making these.........my new favorite outdoor films.........Bama Rick
That is high praise. Thank you. It's a lot of work, but I love it.
Thanks for posting this video ! I grew up around water and and have built/repaired boats and canoes. This reminds me of exploring streams and estuaries in Western New York. Now too old and feeble to enjoy such adventures myself. It is good to know the next generation still enjoys them. Love your boat! A boat that is capable of both oar and sail is a joy.
What a gorgeous little boat and a great video , "a remedy that can't be bottled & sold" indeed , thank you for inspiring me to get my kayak outta the barn & use it...
Cool, thanks for taking us along. Awesome boat and awesome river system!
Great trip taking advantage of the high water!!!
It's a special treat! We have been getting hammered with rain here.
Gorgeous little boat lad
Thanks yet again for another great ride along
ahh, the perfection of nature in a silent boat. so tranquil. thanks. tomorrow, im taking my inflatable boat out for a 2 day therapy session.🍻
Both of your latest home made boats are tops
Thank you! They suit their purpose nicely, I think.
Beautiful boat
Great video, thanks 👍
Nature offers he'r very best & demands only the same in return... thus humanities challenge is to*be GREAT yet*humble, thankful & healing...
Pro💜Love
👣🕊👽
Nice little boat - a throwback to the old days (before my time, even though I'm getting to be an old fart) when home-built boats weren't such a rare thing. Also, I think I saw a Mitchell 300 fishing reel in that shot of the boat while you were going down the road. That's one that dominated the spinning-reel market in the 50s and 60s.
Good eye. It's my grandfather's Mitchell. A reel you can actually maintain.
Epic Gunk-hole Adventure!
Nice boat ❤
Just started watching your vids this week. Great stuff! In all your creeking about have you ran into any water mocs?
I mainly grew up on the west coast and paddled in rec kayaks and ocean kayaks in the ocean and whitewater. Now that I'm in my 40s on the east coast row boating is becoming advantageous to me. I want to get a small rowing dinghy one and add lights, mp3/am/fm, vhf mobile transceiver, flush mount compass, transducer and mirror on one to enjoy.
You should "leather" or wrap your oars to prevent the chafing and looseness
How did you seal your boat? I've been watching your videos with my son, and he really likes your little boat.
The boat is made tight mostly by creating a good flush-fitting joint between the sides and the bottom. The thick adhesive used on that joint also helps fill gaps and imperfections.
That's wonderful! Glad to hear it.
Thanks!
Without the stink and noise of an engine 👍
The topography difference between Middle Tennessee and East Tennessee means most of the creeks in East Tennessee are either small or whitewater. Even the rivers without dams here are too shoaly for a boat like yours. But we do have about dozen lakes on the Tennessee and its tributaries.
Minus the skeg, she can go basically anywhere a canoe can. Not fun to portage though lol
@@cumberlandrover I've floated the Holston from Cherokee Dam to the Tennessee River in Knoxville in a kayak. There's several stretches where you have to push with your knuckles.
I imagine you could just wade and pull through those sections. I probably should have.
I've been wanting to do headwaters to ends for the Holston, Clinch, French Broad and a few others. However, the French Broad has some Class IV between Asheville and Hot Springs.
but but.... buttttttttt you can't put 19 rods on this boat ??? " lol "
Check out the " Old town Pack canoe" 11' 8" 33 lbs... best ever ...
There are a number of "real" solo canoes that are light years beyond Old Town's 'Pack' in terms of what a good paddler can do with them, so "best ever" is something any serious canoe paddler would take issue with (for example, I use a Mohawk Odyssey 14 for most river trips, backwater adventures and fishing. It maneuvers far better than a 'Pack', is much faster, it will literally dance when driven by a skilled paddler using a single-blade paddle, and it can handle a much wider range of water conditions including sizeable waves and rapids). But, none of the good solo canoes that exist are dirt-cheap like the 'Pack', so there's that aspect to consider.
Can’t find the Old Town Pack anymore. They quit making them.
Old town Packs are awesome! I wish they still made them. Yeah, there are other lighter "better" solo canoes out there - but for an all around solo, the old packs were and still are awesome. I wish I would have bought one years ago, but already had 3 canoes (including a mad river freedom 14 solo roylex boat - also light, but not quite as stable - a great solo moderate whitewater river boat though). Really, any decent canoe is fine, but the lighter ones are more fun to move places.
I wished real rowing boats were more available and affordable.
Around here, they run about $7,000. They are all home built, the few that come to market.
Boats designed to take a motor row poorly, well, inefficiently.