Outboard Motor Well

It is a bit of a dilemma, " to cut a hole in your boat or not? " After stewing over it for a while I decided to plough ahead.

My hundred dollar noise and smoke machine.

A rough model

There she be, Almost finished.

The prop sticks down about 6 inches below the keel.

Any ways I am sure I will appreciate the motor when I am making my way back up the Mackenzie Delta to Inuvik.

Just slapped a coat of paint on it. Just have to seal the bottom with a sheet of rubber and make a box to fit it.

New Oars

The oars given to me last fall worked all right but they were the wrong size and were different weights. My first project was to build a new set. It is not an easy task when the selection of wood up here is so expensive and substandard. Basically the process is to laminate 3 one by six planks together then cut and shape them.

Here they are glued together.

Here they are cut out.

And finished product

Ready for some dry land rowing.