Home of the Original McKenzie River Drift Boats, Rogue and Colorado River Dories

The Book Drift Boats and River Dories 

This book is a treasure trove of drift boat history, drift boat building instructions, and 10 sets of drift boat plans.

Drift Boat Plans

Hand Crafted Drift Boat Models

Model Kits

Histories

Talks

About Us

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Drift Boat Builders' Forum - with an emphasis on frame construction

Drift Boat Builders' Forum - with an emphasis on stitch and glue construction

 --And some blogs worth visiting --

The Happy Trout Chronicles, by Dave Zielinski -Adventures in drift boat building, fishing and nonsense (updated June 6 - the launch)

Desolation Dory Blog, by Jeremy Christensen - dories, fishing and travelogue (last updated June 19)

Wooden Boat People - A blog open to all, by Randy and Sandy Dersham

Riverstouch Links

Dave Zielinski's most recently completed project - Visit the Happy Trout Chronicles above.

Roger Fletcher at the River's Touch

     2353 East Ellendale, Dallas, OR 97338      

                                                                              Phone:  503 559 0204  between 10 and 5 PT                                                                

 This page was updated Tuesday June 23, 2009

info@riverstouch.com

Instant Boatbuilding with Dynamite Payson offers 15 boats with power, sail, oar or paddle. It’s a winner. Published by International Marine/McGraw Hill the book is packed with practical instructions for both modeling and building these boats -- and crafting oars! The no-nonsense, simple, practical and Down East approach to boat building is typically "Dynamite."

For signed copies go directly to the man himself, and say Hi to him for me (207-594-7587 between 8:00 & 12:00 and 1:00 and 4:30 EDT). Dynamite doesn’t take credit cards but he will accept personal checks. Or you can go directly to the publisher. By the way, this is his 10^th book, I believe. What a guy!

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Dynamite models one of his first drift boats

The Classic Rogue River Dory, one of my limited editions hand-crafted for a Northwest drift boat aficionado. The boat sports a 60-inch flat spot fore to aft amidships and offers considerably greater carrying capacity than the fully rockered Mckenzie. Note the two wash strakes on the sheer's fore-section. This is one of ten boats featured in my upcoming book, Drift Boats and River Dories.

$19.95 plus shipping