The Week in Small Craft: February 23rd, 2026
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The Week in Small Craft: February 23rd, 2026
The Colorado River Basin states missed the latest deadline on a long-term management framework, which should concern anyone who rows, fishes, farms, or simply turns on a tap in the West. The future of flows matters, and you can dig into the details over at American Rivers. On the super-bummer front, the crew at Adipose Boatworks is vowing to rebuild after a shop fire last week. The silver lining? A surprising amount of gear and infrastructure made it through. Still, fires don’t exactly come with a quick reset button, so it’ll take some time to get the shop humming again. Boat people are resilient, though. We’ll be rooting hard for a fast rebuild and a stronger-than-ever comeback. On the boat-nerd, fix-what-you-broke front, Chesapeake Light Craft walks through surviving a full-blown wooden boat catastrophe with step-by-step instructions and photos from a paddleboard repair that went sideways before it went right. We also went in-depth with Brian Berry of Let ’Em Run Drift Boats about how growing up at Teton Valley Lodge shaped the way he builds boats today. Meanwhile, Emo Electric is running a legitimately strong deal on Torqeedo Travel motors and batteries (Use code TRAVEL10 at check out to save 10%), and we’re officially experimenting with moving some used outboards through the site — good idea or terrible idea, we’re about to find out.