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Randy Dersham
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McKenzie River Wooden Boat Festival is April 23rd this year
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Roger Goth Apr 5, 2011.
Good and bad news about Linda.
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Greg Hatten Nov 28, 2010.
Fantastic job on the Warf Rat!
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Started this discussion. Last reply by PATRICK M CLEAREY Sep 1, 2010.
Welcome! Let's talk about framed white water boats
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- Hometown:
- Vida, OR on the Mckenzie River
- About Me:
- I'm hooked on helping people build their own wooden boat for white water. I live at Eagle Rock Lodge bed and breakfast on the McKenzie River which is run by my beautiful wife Debbie. I also co-own Tatman Wooden Boats with my son Sanderson. Tatman Wooden Boats is a wooden boat materials and kit supplier for white water boats. Tatman has been in business about 25 years and has a great reputation for their framed boat kits. Sanderson and I are using computer design and CNC routers to make custom changes on request.
My day job is as an executive producer of games for Playdom, a Walt Disney company.
- Website:
- http://www.mckenziedriftboat.com
- Boats I own:
- Holy smoly... I own a boat shop.
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Posted on May 29, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment
McKenzie Wooden Boat Show makes local radio station!
Posted on May 29, 2009 at 11:30am
Photo preview of the 2009 McKenzie River Boat Show and Float.
Posted on April 26, 2009 at 9:30am
Building a boat in two days at the 2009 FFF Fly Tying Expo
Posted on March 15, 2009 at 8:32pm
Recovery photos of the wrapped boat in Whitehorse.
Posted on November 28, 2008 at 12:00pm
Comment Wall (54 comments)
- At 8:46pm on January 7, 2012,
Stewart Cross said… Thanks Randy for the welcome and the advice. The boat is done and I will post some pics as soon as I can.
- At 6:53am on August 3, 2011,
Chris Shadrick said… Thanks for the welcome Randy!
I have been watching this forum for a while and thought it was time to join. It has already helped me out greatly. I just recently purchased a Don Hill Drifter and have been working toward restoring it.
- At 8:47am on March 10, 2011,
Bert de klerk said… - Hi Randy, this is a awesome site, great job, looking forward to the show April 23rd.
- At 5:16am on January 12, 2011,
justin nicola said… - also, i just wanted to say the aesthetics on this forum are top notch. i frequent four or five other web forums on boats and fishing and this one is far and away the most professional looking ansd easiest to use. the ability to load pics from my computer instead of some online account is great. no doubt it helps get more shots on the page, as we all know a story is more interesting w/ photos to back it. keep up the good work.
- At 6:55pm on January 11, 2011,
justin nicola said…
great site. thanks for allowing me to join. hope i can answer half as many questions as i ask. just getting into boat building but this seems like a great forum.
- At 8:30pm on October 11, 2010,
Chris Anderson said… - Thanks for the welcome - I have been watching this site since the development and have since been amazed and ecouraged. I agree that this site allows a lot of knowledge to be centralized and will surely help me in getting my wooden boat back into fighting shape. Thanks again.
- At 7:32am on October 5, 2010,
Brad Dimock said… - Randy-
I sent the Music Temple (Susie Too) blueprints to your personal email yesterday. Let me know if they arrived. I printed out a set for myself and they are about 30" x 43", at a scale of 1-1/2" to the foot. The second page has fine detail of the placement of all frames and decks, so this should cover your questions. Todd Bloch at the San Francisco Maritime Museum drew them, so it think they are spot-on. I would guess you could contact him there if you had questions.
It is a mighty strange design, neither a classic McKenzie nor a Rogue.
- At 8:23pm on February 13, 2010,
Brad Dimock said…
- Yeah, it looks like fun. Roger has mentioned you often as well.
Dopn't know if you can answer this, but...I was going to put my picture on the page but although it lets me chose a picture to upload, I'm damned if I can find a way to make it upload. Do you know how this works?
- At 6:41pm on February 13, 2010,
Mary Mackenzie said…
- I didn't get started... :>(. Will try again this summer...can't do much extra during the school year (I teach)...Dad and I examined it. No rot that we could find, but a broken board that man need to be replaced or compounded somehow. Somewhere along the way, someone painted the inside RED, so getting that out is going to be fun. I want to varnish it again.
- At 6:17pm on December 30, 2009,
Sean Watson said… - Thank you Randy.
I just aquired a wooden drift boat and I'm very excited to get it into the water. First step is trying to figure out how to add the UHMW to the bottom. I figured I could probably get a lot of advice on this forum.
Cheers,
Sean
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