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A new fusion of tradition design sketch – “Friendship Slumiak”

Tim Shaw — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:47:56 +0000

I had a couple management meetings this week that provided for doodling space. I have been thinking about a larger skin-on-frame craft ad that led me to umiaks. The name then came to me and so a boat needed to come of it: an umiak-construction hull with lines and rig evoking that classiest of [...] Related posts:

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Design idea – Maine lobsterboat meets Indian canoe

Tim Shaw — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:58:40 +0000

At one point I came across a picture of a dugout canoe from India with these amazing, carved stemheads, not unlike this one. I am not sure why, when I started playing around with how these might get used in other contexts that I thought to do a Maine lobsterboat with them (plus a rounder [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Design idea – a jukung-junk-schooner

Tim Shaw — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:44:48 +0000

I had this idea of taking the characteristic bow of an Indonesian jukung, which I LOVE, and marrying it to a very different hull form. In this case, what came out was a jukung bow on a pinky schooler stern with a junk rig. And I do think it has some potential.

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Design idea – ~30′-ish canoe yawl

Tim Shaw — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:27:29 +0000

I doodle in meetings. A lot. Occasionally, I’ll get inspired and an interesting boat idea emerges. As is my way, I am typically trying to blend traditional design characteristics in some sort of fusion. I have a few saved on scraps of paper, and its high time I started sharing them. Comments are, of course, [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Design details on the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe

Tim Shaw — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:10:01 +0000

One of the aspects to designing and building my own boat is the noodling on very specific problems – how would X work, how do I need to construct Y, how big does Z need to be, etc. To think through these issues I have done some mini-lofting – full-sized drawings of pieces of the [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Design tweaks getting there on the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe

Tim Shaw — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:29:15 +0000

It was thrilling to hear an inquiry from our friend Bob Holtzman over at Indigenous Boats on the status of the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe project. Our last update showed off a completed ama frame, and, truthfully, for various reasons, there hasn’t been any building progress since then.

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What’s been keeping us from blogging – Chine bLog’s skin-on-frame outrigger canoe

Tim Shaw — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:57:35 +0000

Our loyal readers – yes, both of you – may recall a hint of sorts we dropped a few months back regarding thinking about building a new boat. Things are now at a point where I am able to share more, as I have things underway, if at a pace that is in line with [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

“LiLo” – A 35′ racer-cruiser

Tim Shaw — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:49:50 +0000

As I have mentioned in the past, I have been screwing around with boat design stuff for many years (with a big lull in there when I lost my way). My inaugural post on this blog talked about the class I took at the design class I took at the WoodenBoat School. There I designed [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.