SAILING. BOATS. ART. LIFESTYLE.
SAILING, BOATS, MY ARTWORK, OTHER’S ART, BAHAMAS, OUR HOUSE IN THE BAHAMAS, CHARTERING AND LEARNING TO SAIL, BOAT DESIGNS, HOUSE DESIGNS AND ANYTHING THAT MIGHT COME TO MIND. THIS BLOG HAS BEEN CREATED, ORGANIZED, AND EDITED BY RACHEL FOR CHRIS SO WHEN HE IS NOT DOING THAT WHICH THIS BLOG IS ABOUT HE WILL HAVE THIS SPACE TO WRITE ABOUT IT.
New Skiff Designs for Sale
When sailing long distances taking 20 days I get lots of time to think up new designs. Here are some pictures of what’s for sale now for home builders. Go to my blog hogfishdesign.wordpress.com to [...]
Building An Epoxy One Off Deck
These photos show the sequence of building a one off deck for a friends 17′ Envi home built skiff. He was building in Raka epoxy so that’s what I used. It took me 56 hours [...]
Hogfish Maximus sails to BC
Sitting on top of the bagged Genoa in the compact doghouse of the Hogfish Maximus finds me fully dressed for cold weather, rain, fog and a bit weary. It’s 4:30 am on our 31st day [...]
Skiffs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This is a blog I wrote back in March 2019 when Rachel and I were anchored off of Islamorada in the Florida keys on our past sailboat the Hogfish Maximus. At the time I was [...]
Flats Skiff Upper Spray Rails Evolution History… I think
Today I will be showing a basic photo chronological list of what I think might be the progression of the upper spray rail history. Well it is at least to me in my short history [...]
The Cost of Building a Custom Skiff – Lithium Skiff
The LITHIUM SKIFF IS ALIVE ! After lots of work by Scott Grider, Geneo Baker, Brian Floyd, Eric Shisler, Rob Rummel and a little help from myself, the birth of a new flats skiff concept [...]
Trollcraft 16′ Flats Fishing Skiff
My good friend Eric Bornstein and I have been discussing the problems of fishing alone in a flats skiff having to pole about with an unbalanced skiff. What about just designing a skiff that is [...]
Conchfish 16′ Plans for Sale
I have updated my old Whipray flats skiff design to reflect my current thinking. I feel the design shown here will be superior in many ways to the past design. I have changed the upper [...]