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The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Harry, I can vividly recall my first visit to your Shop. Mid 80's Jim Day our Boatbuilding instructo ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Harry, Love your words as always. Martha, You and the kids travelled to Mactaquac, New Brunswick ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Harry, I loved reading the comments, including Peter Tomasi's - my experience too. You and Martha ha ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— I've always appreciated Harry's instructive articles about making accessories for boat or shop and l ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— This is just great! I hope there's much more to come! ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— That picture of a mess of dinghies tossed together on the ground is as beautiful a vision of boating ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Having followed Harry Bryan since joining OCH, he has inspired me with his life of having less and a ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— I first met Harry and Martha at UVM in the fall of 1964. He was not much of student then; he was al ...

In My Shop: A Fox, a Willow, a Phoenix, a Skerrie Skiff & a Pram

— Hi Kathleen. Yes, Bill Thomas is a talented designer and he has a kit for QuickBeam here: https://b ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, conc ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Harry, you and Martha are my idols. You pointed my compass to a way of life previously unknown to me ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— The boat building skills I learned, and the night of living-room music in the boat house Harry organ ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Loved reading this. I too was inspired by Helen and Scott Nearing but, I’m sad to say, my dreams ...

My Thoughts on Power Tools

— I would like to add that too often we never acquire tools we are told we need to make a boat or a ho ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Harry's course on building Daisy gave me so many new skills for boat building, including care in mea ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Thanks Harry, this lifted my spirits on a cold and too-quiet Sunday. I have just pulled some images ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Loved the images conjured from Harry's writings. The idea of albums by year of experience is clever. ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— Wonderful to read. A great description of success ! I need to repeat what I said at Giffy’s memori ...

The Early Days – A Dream and The Energy of Youth, by Harry Bryan

— That's a lovely story of memories and encouragement to follow creative dreams thank you ...

In My Shop: A Fox, a Willow, a Phoenix, a Skerrie Skiff & a Pram

— Is there a kit for your kayak design "QuickBeam?" ...

New Site Tour Video #1 | Homepage

— I am refurbishing a '80 Whaler -15- SuperSport and may soon be doing same on a '65 ish 17' wood-cent ...

New Site Tour Video #1 | Homepage

— Awesome ...