Four years ago, we heard from Bayard Storey, from Los Angeles, CA, who was building an ultralight Firefly II from the drafting board of...

Upon seeing the Basset Firefly Finesse here in these pages, Lorenz Rutz wrote to tell me of his most recent creation. While Finesse is a d...

....so then we took the Ken Basset Firefly, Finesse down to the estuary at Ona Beach. It's a beautiful spot, where Beaver Creek meets t...

Finesse was relaunched today. This is a timeless design. Easy to row, very responsive, stable in a bit of choppy water, she's a true th...

You've heard me crying about not having a rowboat for the last few weeks, but the sobbing is over. My good friend Laingdon got tired of ...