![]() ![]() ![]() Its hull has a composite core sheathed in hand-laid fiberglass that can take heavy waves or being dragged onto an icy Alaskan shore. The C-Dory stands 7 1/2-feet tall and weighs about 2,500 pounds with the gas tanks full. ![]() Minnow, but the castaways would have wished for something as tough and reliable as the dory. Perhaps "Work-Horse" would have been as appropriate.Īt a stubby 22-feet long, the C-Dory is about as sexy looking as the S.S. Of part Osage Indian ancestry, Heat-Moon (originally William Trogdon) gave his boat the name Nikawa, an Osage name that translates as "River-Horse." In the C-Dory Cruiser, Heat-Moon found everything he needed. Shortly before the trip, he came across an advertisement in a marine magazine from C-Dory, a boatmaker in Kent, Wash. He needed something that was rugged and stable yet with a very shallow draft and a long cruising range. Until a few months before the trip was supposed to begin in April 1995, Heat-Moon could not find a suitable boat. ![]() A good deal of his path echoed three of the great early explorers of North America, Lewis and Clark and Henry Hudson. With his trademark loquacious writing style, Heat-Moon conveys the ever changing river ways as he moves across America. ![]()
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