Salvage
Over the winter we salvaged a bunch of stuff for the cabin. We call it going shopping. We have an idea of what it is that we need to build with and head out in the skiff. Beachcombing the small islands around here has provided some great stuff. This is the story of how we got the beams for the living room and the porch for the cabin.

We needed straight logs not too round but 20 feet long. With that in mind we made about six "shopping" trips. We would head out in the skiff to a beach like this... and and search for what we need.
When we find the log, we tie a rope around it and Jonathan pulls it down the beach with the skiff. I stand by to untangle it from other logs. With 17 foot tides, it can be a long tow down the beach. When we have enough, we make a log raft and tow it behind us back to camp. There's J with the tow in the background.







When we get back to camp we grunt the beach logs onto the back of the truck and tow them through camp to the cabin. Dolly helps.
On this particular day, the ground was either frozen or dry enough to drive down to the cabin to unload our beach logs.

Finally they have to be hung...