| Most of us who were fortunate enough to spend our | | | | Now of course it's coming full circle. After thirty years |
| childhoods around water and often had boats | | | | or more of listening to steadily increasing noise levels |
| resembling the Tyee Spirit® fishing skiff. Usually | | | | and sitting sedentarily in front of a computer screen, |
| twelve or fourteen feet long, red cedar over streamed | | | | most of us want peace and quiet and fresh clean air. |
| oak frames, lapstrake or clinker planked. The more | | | | Trolling, or drift fishing are all easily accomplished under |
| modern Tyee Spirit® 14 is built out of maintenance | | | | oars. A good rowing boat with a light fast hull makes |
| free teak and fiberglass. | | | | for a very seaworthy craft. The Tyee Spirit® 14 |
| The Tyee Spirit® 14 fishing rowboat originates | | | | offers sliding seat technology that brings leg power into |
| from Campbell River, on the east coast of Vancouver | | | | the stroke. This style of rowing uses 90% of the |
| Island. Every summer a large run of Chinook salmon | | | | body's muscles without stressing the joints or |
| return to the river to spawn. Those fish that have | | | | ligaments. Slide seat rowing has double the calorie burn |
| matured to over 30 lbs are called "Tyee" salmon. A | | | | of jogging plus it's quiet and relaxes the mind. |
| guide at the oars slowly working the rowboat through | | | | A small light outboard can be used to travel greater |
| the tidal currents, a guest or two seated aft anticipating | | | | distance to and from fishing holes, but an acquired |
| a strike any second. Senses sharp and tuned with | | | | knowledge of wind, tide and currents and how to work |
| every sound clearly audible, even the water drops | | | | them to your advantage under oar power is a more |
| dripping off the oars. This is rowboat fishing! | | | | satisfying alternative. |
| Rowing gently along while trolling for fish was common | | | | The surge of the hull as it drives through the water |
| until the mid-fifties when Briggs and Stratton gas | | | | after a good clean pull on the oars produces a feeling |
| engines started showing up soon followed by the | | | | of fulfillment. After all, enjoyment, relaxation, exercise |
| outboard "kicker." | | | | and a tasty fish are enviable rewards in themselves. |