Rides Around: A Custom-Built Missouri River Boat

This week’s Rides Around is more like a “Floats Around” and comes to us from a friend who was inspired by last week’s post and poem.  

The owner and builder of this flat-bottomed boat grew up on the Northern Pacific shore, on the outskirts of Juneau, AK.  He was a Woodsman, a Hunter, a Boatman, a Builder, and a classic example of The Men Who Don’t Fit In.

He loved all kinds of boats (and trucks, and cars, and army vehicles), and sketched them in his many notebooks.  He had the opportunity to own many, and custom re-fit a few.

This 18-foot, 1992 Lowe Jon Boat was a bare hull when purchased.  Everything was fabricated from the center drive console to the entire trailer, which was customized with knobby tires and .50 caliber ammo boxes just for storage………perhaps.

It made many trips down the Missouri River in search of Adventure, Bighorn Sheep, and Family Camping in the White Cliffs of the Missouri.