The incredible vast and rugged beauty of western Vancouver Island, B.C. can be compared to few places in the world. So in July 2010 Seawolf took a group out for an 8-day SOF kayak expedition.
I stood on a beach overlooking a set of shallow reefs, fringed with the bright green of Giant Sea Anemones and purples and golds of Ochre Starfishes.
At that moment neither Alaska nor Hawaii could compare with the incredible beauty before me.
A few weeks ago we built five new boats at our new workshop outside Portland. Alex to our left here came all the way from Calgary, Alberta for this one and she built a beautiful kayak.
Alex just sent me a letter with, “p.s. i love paddling that boat.”
Awesome. One more person closer to nature, 5 billion 999 million to go.
Intuit is offering small business grants up to $30,000 and that would be a nice shot in the arm for us! Help us bring skin-on-frame technology to the kayaking world and teach the knowledge of indigenous ways of life!
Last fall while shooting footage for a new DVD, I did a few rolls out in the very cold water of Hood Canal, WA. Here they are from the cameras strapped to the deck of my Steller Sea Kayak.
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The calf rose up to the surface and rolled under again and again. Its mother swam alongside and then periodically, WHOOSH, blew a long column of water vapor into the salty air. My kayak’s skin reverberated with the blast, and I could feel it through my legs. At times, I could almost see the orcas pass underneath my translucent hull…
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The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) asked us at Seawolf to do an exhibition on skin-on-frame boats, both kayaks and umiaks. It turned out to be an amazing weekend around Christmas in the featured hall, as we occupied some 2000 square feet with kayaks and had about 3000 people stop by to check out the exhibit.
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In 2006 and 2007, Kiliii Yu of Seawolf and Brian Schulz from Cape Falcon began a unique project– The construction of a driftwood-framed kayak with hide covering. We finished it and skinned it traditional Greenland-style. The kayak Anqeti made the front cover of the November 2008 Bulletin of Primitive Technology.
