Chine bLog » 4B. Sailing http://www.chineblog.com Messing about in wooden, traditional, and tradition-inspired boats Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:55:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A long-overdue shout-out to Gary Dierking’s Outrigger Sailing Canoes Blog http://www.chineblog.com/2009/04/a-long-overdue-shout-out-to-gary-dierkings-outrigger-sailing-canoes-blog/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/04/a-long-overdue-shout-out-to-gary-dierkings-outrigger-sailing-canoes-blog/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:25:28 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=749 I noticed a while ago that our friend Gary Dierking, the Kiwi outrigger maestro, has been running a blog to compliment and promote his work. Take this as a study in how well I am doing at keeping up on this blog these days – I am just now getting to an appreciation of [...] Related posts:
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I was in Seattle for business last week, which allowed me to make a pilgrimage to the Center for Wooden Boats, a place so cool I cannot contain it to a single post, nor even two. In fact, friends, a roughly two-and-a half-hour visit gave me four interesting posts to lay out for you. [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2008/06/the-center-for-wooden-boats-part-1-sailing-the-cape-ann-dory-qona/feed/ 0 Sailing a Delaware Ducker – finale, for now, with Cheaspeake Bay Maritme Museum’s Apprentice for a Day program http://www.chineblog.com/2008/05/sailing-a-delaware-ducker-finale-for-now-with-cheaspeake-bay-maritme-museums-apprentice-for-a-day-program/ http://www.chineblog.com/2008/05/sailing-a-delaware-ducker-finale-for-now-with-cheaspeake-bay-maritme-museums-apprentice-for-a-day-program/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 07:23:00 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/284-guid.html And so, like all good things, another set of sessions with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Apprentice for a Day program has ended. And what a way to go – sailing a Delaware Ducker, the sister of the one on which I have been working. We got two little sails in, with some fine [...] Related posts:

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Photo by Terry Galpin

Location: Hawaii, USA

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Some of our kindred spirits have been hard at work. Canoe Sailing Magazine has launched online – congrats to the proud authors! I just noticed its birth just this evening and haven’t looked at it much, but I am fairly confident I won’t live to regret giving it the Chine bLog stamp of [...] Related posts:

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As I mentioned recently, my dad gave me Frank and Margaret Dye’s Ocean Crossing Wayfarer: To Iceland and Norway in a 16ft Open Boat for Christmas and I tore through it in several days. Great book for those liking adventure or those liking nice wooden boats.

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The other night, I added a post about the return of proa racing to the Marshall Islands. Don’t you know, then, that days later, we now have some video of the 2001 races. “aqlunafoo” added a post to the Proa-file yahoo group with four interesting videos. Many thanks!

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A better look at the boat is here:

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Take a look at these photos – I can’t imagine how anyone could look at them without feeling inspired.

Done. I’m inspired. This is a good find – follow Gavin’s lead here.

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Staying in the same part of the world – and I mean the South Pacific, not Western PA – I note this project: “A Voyaging Canoe for Tikopia,” sponsored by British designer James Wharram. Wharram aims to build two double canoes in the voyaging canoe tradition of the South Western Pacific and donate [...] Related posts:

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