my father made these strip canoes . . .

He has also taught my husband a lot about building boats and Steven has put this knowledge into practice already. This weekend is the Traditional Small Craft Association Festival - see here for last year - and Steven will race his little sailing canoe that he has been working on. My brother in law will be visiting and he will race a small sailboat that my father built, a melonseed.

Steven and my dad after re-finishing that boat, the melonseed.

: ) i am very proud of both of these guys! And, I get to look at these beautiful boats all the time because they are in my backyard when they are not on the water!