Log and Line Woodworks

01/23/2022

Plans…

12/22/2021

Moving into some new shared shop space at Gardenville Station in San Francisco, where I’ll be doing some furniture projects and maybe offering classes from time to time. The plan is to start small with the new venture and let it build gradually. It’s been nearly a year since I’ve had shop space for my own work. Looking forward to seeing what happens in 2022.

02/13/2020

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

12/05/2019

Trying to breathe some new life into this home-built Francis Herreshoff-designed pram with new sheer clamps and rub rails. She’s not getting the full restoration treatment she could use, but the client ought to be able to row around a bit with his grandchildren as he hopes to when we’re through with it here at

11/03/2019

Finished up carpentry on Scirocco the pirate yesterday. New garboards, a keel laminate amidships, new centerboard trunk, new frames, new floor timbers, new sole bearers. It took a lot longer than I estimated at first but I feel like I learned a lot about the actual time involved in a significant repair/restoration project and will continue to get more accurate with estimates with each job. Now it’s time to put the original interior back in and get her in the water.

10/15/2019

Got the steambox all set up. New planks go in tomorrow.

10/09/2019

Lots of progress on SCIROCCO lately. New frames and floors and centerboard trunk installed and she’s rolled over and ready for garboards.

10/01/2019

I just don’t get tired of boats and motorcycles together.

08/31/2019

Spent most of the morning yesterday sorting through a tool donation at

08/30/2019

In a few weeks I'll be offering my first class at my new home, Spaulding Marine Center!

A short course for novice to intermediate woodworkers focused on building a small dovetailed tool tray and the 1839 School Box from The Joiner and Cabinet Maker published by Lost Art Press.

08/24/2019

Today crane training began in earnest. Soon I’ll be hauling boats up to 12 tons with one of the oldest continually-operating, annually inspected cranes in the country.