Bullet Craft...Fine Fast Floating Fleet

The Canoe January 14, 2008:

• The Artists hands
• The Bow
• The Canoe center
• A Great helper
• Wood Strip
• Ready for Varnish
• Finish Coat
• Making the Oar
• Finish the Oar
• Rolling the Finish
• Looking Real good
  

The Shell December 18, 2007:

• Building the Deck
• The Deck
• The Body
• Deck and Body
• Deck and Body assembled

Time to Go!

November 1, 2008
OK, let's get the boats wet. Bullet the gang of us head to Norwich Pond in huntington, Ma. for some canoeing, Kayaking, and shelling. A brisk, sunny day it is, and I haven't seen his flotilla in action. I also have never put my Kayak in the water.

• Putting in
• Jim and Carol's yard
• The Waldon Kyak and Judy and the group
• J and Chris are off in Bullet's canoe
• Bullet gets his sea legs in the shell
• Bow cam from yours truly's Kayak
• Open water and heading to the other side of the lake
• Shore Sentinal
• Master instructs Grasshopper on his first shell voyage...grasshopper must learn fast cuz this ain't easy

Rowing a Shell is a combination of movements that have to be very precise. First of all, you have to maintain your center of gravity or you will flip the Shell.
You push your hands forward, one on top of the other, with the blades of the oars parallel to the water.If you hit an oar tip in the water you will lose your rythm and turn the shell. Then, with you hands in the full forward position, you spin your handsand turn the blades perpendicular to the water, dip them in and...PULL!!

Repeat perfectly about a thousand times and you be heading backwards fast. Turning is done with care. You can just pull with one oar or dip an our in the water, creating a drag. But the Shell is very tricky to keep balanced, and you have to do this with care.