Boat Building

Dameon has made two new sets of oars for our R2AK adventure. Here are some shots of the process, from our friend and fellow rower Wes Reddick’s shop (which he generously allowed us to use. Thanks Wes.)

Mursu is ready for work to begin! The day MURSU came home we had 59 days until the R2AK start gun went off. We not only want to finish the boat but also have a few sea trials to work out the bugs before we headed off for Washington. We’d been thinking of this boat

(Yeah, boats are normally female, but MURSU is…different) As we started to seriously consider participating in the Race to Alaska we knew we needed a boat specifically designed for longer, expedition style rowing. The boat we have primarily rowed for the past few years is a Savo 650D designed by Ruud van Veelen. These boats