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I assume at least some of ya'll follow Brad and his stories, if not you should!

Here's a good piece about a good dory wreck wreck, and its repair...

 

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I sank a guy’s sailboat and it costs a lot less than buying it lol. But yeah , it was a joke. Sinking boats cost us all…lol. Seems like you can’t sink one there anyway cause you gotta fly it out. So maybe get sunk boat insurance on your loaner. Build a cheap one with Home Depot plywood and cheap glass? Don’t even paint it just go run it. Why not? Lot of hullabaloo with the painted eggshells anyway Like thurston Howell the III just different. There’s a guy here that builds these terrible little boats and he’s done the grand a couple times so you can too! And if it goes bad dude up above told ya so. I just thought the whole thread was a joke really. Unless you could rent one from a big outfitters no one’s gonna let you “borrow “ one. Maybe your dad or brother but even that’s a long shot. There’s a guy in Colorado who’s selling cnc cut parts . That would be fast?
After building two boats I could literally cut the parts, at least the hull ones and the gunwales, in a day. But then the next 100 plus days would be putting them together.
 

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I once saw a wrecked dory in Winnie’s grotto on Lodore. Apparently it broke up on Winnie’s Rock, a very simple move, which proves anyone can have a bad day.
Indeed, I considered myself lucky that I only had minimal damage considering all of the miles that I put on her, it's a whole different skill set rowing a wooden boat, versus rowing a raft
 

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Here ya go! Cheaper than a raft. Give you time to do some repairs/mods a painter job and yer off.
McKenzie's aren't the boat you want in grand canyon, been there, done that, never again... YMMV...
 
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