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Dories, Rivers, Fly Fishing, Photography. All photos copyright Jeremy Christensen, unless otherwise attributed. All rights reserved.
Title photo copyright Ray Bloxham.
About The Author
- Jeremy Christensen
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- "A life is a mirror reflecting the road over which it passes. Sometimes when it rains, the mirror itself is reflected in the road." - Everett Ruess
More Photos
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Places to go, things to see
- Western Rivers Flyfisher
- Western River Permit Information
- UtahRafters: Connecting River Rats
- Utah Water Guardians - Stream Access
- Utah Rivers Council
- USGS Real-Time Streamflow Data for Utah
- Trout Unlimited
- The Life and Times of Her Fryeness
- Spey Pages
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
- SL Tribune Outdoors Blog - Brett Prettyman/Tom Wharton
- Schmidt's Walkabouts
- Sandy Pittendridgh's Montana Riverboats
- Rogue Ales - Dare, Risk, Dream
- Rivers Touch - Home of the original McKenzie River Drift Boat, Rogue and Colorado River Dories
- River Runners Transport - Vernal, UT: raft trip shuttles
- River Runners For Wilderness
- Moabyte
- Kwagunt.net
- Julius: The Rebirth of Buzz Holmstrom's Classic Whitewater Masterpiece
- Jason Cajune's Montana Boatbuilders
- Jacks Plastic Welding, Inc. - Home of the Paco Pad!
- Inskeep Images
- HEAL-Utah
- Great Photos of Dories in the Grand Canyon
- Glen Canyon Institute
- DeseretDays - sordid tales of dirtbaggerry
- Cloudveil Mtn Culture Blog
- Carbon County Recreation: Trips and Rentals in Price, UT
2 comments:
Wow, looks like an awesome trip. I'm jealous. I live in Idaho about 9 hours from there. Those dories are sweet. I'm frantically trying to finish mine. My setup will be similar except I think I might be a bit smaller. (16'-6" length and 54" wide bottom) But I want to do a self bailing system like yours. Do you think you could maybe help me out? Also, why do have those towers for the oar locks instead of just putting the locks in blocks between the gunnels? By the way, what size is your boat and long of oar do you use? Walt
Westwater was a blast.
I am always happy to share what I've learned through building this boat, and getting ready to start another one soon. Hopefully.
Feel free to email me - o.c.utah@hotmail.com with any specific questions. It may take a few days for me to get back to you.
My boat is 14.5" down the center, with a 70" beam and 54" wide floor. My oars are 9', and they are too short. I will be switching to 10'.
The oarstands are nice for various reasons. The way I did my decking and hatches, I am sitting almost at the level of the gunnels, so putting the oarlock in the gunnel would have made it much too short. The oar towers (from NRS) raise them up to a comfortable height, and allow for someone else to change the configuration in the future if they choose.
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