More information on the Loire trip 2011 – New website
There is a new website for the Loire trip in France 2011.
It has been a bit traumatic putting it together, but it seems to be working now. There is a new website for the Loire trip in France 2011.
It has been a bit traumatic putting it together, but it seems to be working now.Invitation for storerboats (and others) to Oklahoma in October
Sailing on Lake Eufala, Oklahoma
The wonderful Sail OK event with hosts Jackie and Michael Monies
All wooden boats welcome! Or friends!Want to build a canoe and travel down the Loire River in France? 2011
Want to travel down the Loire River in France? A group on the Duckworks forum are planning to build a bunch of quick build boats, possibly including the Quick Canoe for a 14 day trip.
Everyone covers their own expense. Maybe September.Announcing Michael’s talk in Portland, Maine
Invitation to a Talk by Boat Designer Michael Storer
At Clint Chase Boatbuilder, 25 Deblois Street, Portland, Maine
Sunday Nov 1st @ 11am-1pm, Bring Boats and Questions
After some food and chat, Michael will talk to us about making our boats better…I have been so far behind writing here …
It has been a hugely busy trip. I think I take too many photos. Sorting them and keeping them all updated has been a never ending task. When I went to MoMA I took about 300 pictures, at Mystic Seaport 700, at the Kennedy Space Centre about 700 as well. I then have to sort read more →The Paddling on the Colorado River continues.
More paddling on Lake Powell, Utah, part of the Colorado River.
Remember that I am not a real Canoeist. I have paddled quite a range of different boats at some time or another, I do know basic strokes, I have used canoes to do several day tours (Noosa River, Hawkesbury River) but this trip was to much more remote areas. Closest towns 50 or so kilometres away, we were likely to be pretty well the only people on that area of water after the weekend, we had to carry everything including food as there are no shops.USA Day 14.5 to 16 – The fleet gathers and heads up Lake Powell and the Colorado River
I have already put extensive comments on my flickr gallery. http://www.flickr.com/photos/boatmik/sets/72157622510542194/ So let’s introduce the participants and the boats! They gathered in the afternoon. People as far away as Texas, California and Australia (me). Not a huge number, this cruise works well with up to around 12 to 15 boats. A huge thanks to Jim read more →USA Day 13 – Salt Lake City to Lake Powell
Well … this is the section where I leave Oregon and go to Utah to paddle a canoe on Lake Powell .. a dammed in section of the Colorado River. This is the travelling bit … where I meet new friends and old internet friends. Thanks particularly from the people in Salt Lake City, particularly read more →USA Day 12 – Central Oregon, cold water and dam-ation
Yesterday spent the day traipsing around Central Oregon With Andrew Linn. We had a canoe on the roof and a boat behind. The boat behind was a delivery – Andrew had sold a Laser look alike – a now defunct class. And was pretty nice to get foot mobile and do some short bushwalks. So read more →USA Day 11 – Portland to Astoria Maritime Museum
Well a mind-boggling day today. Set is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/boatmik…7622312609441/ Some of the “Coots” boating group organised a joint trip for four of us to Astoria (named after the Astor Family who made their money in the fur industry a couple of hundred years ago. We got up early and went to meet Long 龍 at read more →USA Trip Day 7, 8, 9 – Timothy Lake Messabout with the Coots
The pics in this post are just a hint – many more on flickr – you can see them at the bottom of this page. So … What a Weekend! It is the highest I have ever sailed by far – about 2500 to 3000ft above sea level. A very nice bunch of folks. And read more →USA Day 6 – Down home in a Columbia River Slough
Howdy, The full set is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/boatmik…7622383846430/ Well more interesting things to report. Actually so interesting I have gone out to buy an MP3 voice recorder so I won’t miss these conversations. This was the view out of the window on waking. I couldn’t get the colours right even with fiddling – much lighter and read more →Travelling Day 4 – SF to Portland, Or. Day 5 a little bit of work
>Howdy, All travelling pics really from yesterday and just a few from making some samples for the talk I give on Wednesday. Most of the day around the house. Picture slideshow is at the bottom of this post But the travel pics look a bit boring in retrospect, but that doesn’t mean the view was read more →SF Missed appointment, Walk, Asian Museum and some fans
USA Day 3 – Missed Appointment, Walk, Asian Museum (and a couple of little boats) and meeting some fans Slideshow of pics is at the bottom of this page. I was supposed to meet David Luckhardt to go to the River Heritage Fair. I blew it – I woke up when I was supposed to read more →First Day in San Francisco and Goats tomorrow.
Plane ended up being a couple of hours late leaving sydney. All pics are in the slideshow at the page bottom But fine flight otherwise. I am a happy Sinophile as my hotel is exactly beside the Chinatown gate. That is it on the left. On the plane there was a mechandising magazine. Had everything read more →But what to do about the vegemite?
Michael Storer‘s bag is too heavy. Will he have to ditch the vegemite? Even now he knows it may not be enough for part of the trip. So Guys, comms will get a bit shaky from here on in, however I plan to see lots of interesting boaty and other things so will post a read more →Heading to the USA on Thursday
Well, this is the first real post on WordPress and it is about my trip to the USA for the Puddle Duck World titles plus a couple of months of other boating adventures. I am thinking of moving the whole site over to it in the future. It will be more flexible than the existing read more →Michael Storer’s shoestring tour of the USA
The PDRacer community and Duckworks have grouped together to collect small amounts of money to put together to bring me to the USA to go to various “messabouts” (messing around in boat weekends) as well as the Intergalactic Championships of the PDRacers in Georgia in October. Duckworks is collecting and managing the contributions.http://www.duckworksbbs.com/boatmik.htm The PDR read more →
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