Well, what’s the point of having a boat if you can’t share it with a dog that loves water. Enter Cooper, a 7 week old male Irish Water Spaniel. Our quality control inspector, Cleo, as shown in the June 5th, ‘06 entry, passed on Christmas Eve. She hated water, hated being in cars, and boats where entirely out of the question, so this time we decided to get the ultimate water dog. Now this comes at a price that is a huge time suck if you like a well-trained dog as I do. Check out the other area of this website for the Cooper Project and Dog Blog. I predict a lot of summer weekends are going to be spent training a retriever and not a whole lot of boat building.