This last week Jody and I spent a few days sailing and cruising the lower Columbia River. The first night we spent in Steamboat Slough just up river from Skamakowa. It’s a beautiful place like most of the backwater of the lower river. At 6:30 the next morning we caught the out-going tide for Astoria!…
Current Projects
Barbey Maritime Center Boat Show
This Saturday morning a few of us from the TSCA Lower Columbia River Chapter showed a few of our wood boats in front of the Barbey Maritime Center. We were asked to show our boats to help enrollment for the Barbey boat building classes. We did this last year; it was so successful we were…
Cathlamet Wooden Boat Show 2019
This last weekend was the Cathlamet Wooden Boat Show. There were about 30 boats registered for the show. Many boats showed in the water and others on the parking lot resting on their trailers. There were also kayaks and canoes of all sizes and styles. On Saturday I built a Salt Bay Skiff with the help…
Baby Osprey Chicks
Here are a few shots of the 3 baby Osprey chicks! The one on the right is the smallest of the three. Their parents still feed the little one beak to beak so the two bigger ones won’t take its food away from it. They will be flying in the next week or so. Then…
A Quiet Sail Up the Columbia
After cleaning all the honey equipment Josey and I went for aquiet sail up the Columbia.
Birds and Bees Update
This last weekend there was a lot going on in the bee yards and the Osprey nesting platform. This late spring and early summer has had its fair share of showers. With those showers comes lots and lots of flowers. It seems to me that the wild blackberry bloom is nearly twice the norm. With…
Honey Bees Swarming
This last Saturday late in the afternoon one of my hives swarmed. This happens when the hive becomes too small for so many bees. This is also the honey bees’ natural way of reproducing. The queen takes approximately half of the hive and SWARMS. They’ll land on a tree branch or pretty much anything, but…
Portland Wooden Boat Show 2019
The last weekend of June, Jody and I made way 45 miles up the Columbia River and then entered the Multnomah Channel at St. Helens, Or. We cruised 18 miles up and after 11 hours tied up to spend the night at Hadley’s Landing. Early the following morning we entered the Willamette River, and 15…
Captured Swarm of Feral Bees
Here are a few hives we have at the Puget Island site. We have a fewother sites with a total of 18 hives. About five of those hives areswarms caught or hives that are slower growing and will not beproducing honey this season. If you look closely the upper boxes areshallower, those boxes are honey…
Sailing the Lower Columbia River
Sailing the Lower Columbia river with my good friend Larry and Lil’ Josey!!