Jordan Reid's precision-engineered river sleds aim to fill gap in Alaska manufacturing and encourage trades education
Jordan Reid stands alongside one of his partially assembled 17-foot jet skiffs in his shop on Hungerford Hill in Petersburg.
Inside a workshop tucked behind Charles Davis's legendary junkyard, Jordan Reid stands beside a nearly completed aluminum 17-foot jet sled which has taken shape over the prior three days, its pre-cut panels fitting together with the precision of a high-end puzzle.
"Everything is self-jigging," Reid explains. "It took years of math and design engineering, CAD drawing, trial and error to get to this point, to be able to have everything click together like this."
After 20 years of running jet boats on Southeast Alaska's rivers - and two years building them at Wooldridge Boats in Seattle - Reid ha...
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