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My wooden boat cred’ – I got proof!

Tim Shaw — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:11:22 +0000

In case anyone thinks I am some kind of wooden boat poseur… I was recently cleaning stuff out and came across a bunch of old checks, including some of the first I ever wrote. Inclued was this one, from 1985: my first subscription to WoodenBoat. Keepin’ it real…

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’round the blogs – great stuff from elsewhere in the traditional boat blogosphere

Tim Shaw — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:35:36 +0000

It has been far too long (we do I always find myself starting this way? SIGH) since we here at Chine bLog highlighted the great posts others have offered the world regarding wooden / traditional boats. Yes, believe it or not, Chine bLog is NOT the only source. Really. It’s true. If you haven’t discovered [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Latest reading: “Sons of Sinbad” by Alan Villiers

Tim Shaw — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:10:20 +0000

I just finished reading Sons of Sindbad by Alan Villiers. I guess Villiers is a noted mariner and author; I confess I hadn’t heard of him. He went to Aden in 1939, having shipped out on sailing ships for many years. He arranged to join a traditional boom (dhow) on its annual run from Arabia [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Paddling.net launch sites tool – please fill it out

Tim Shaw — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:33:58 +0000

Heads up: Paddling.net has a new, cool-looking tool that shows launch sites on a Google Map and allows you to add new ones. I will be taking a look and seeing if I can contribute; please yours too. This will be extremely valuable when built out.

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Hope you like the updates I made to Chine bLog recently

Tim Shaw — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:20:00 +0000

If you have visited Chine bLog recently you will hopefully have noticed some subtle updates. I moved the navigation bar down to an easier to find spot to help your access to some of what I think is our best stuff. I also updated the section devoted to the major projects I have completed and/or [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Heads-up Aussies – Melbourne Wooden Boat Festival is coming up

Tim Shaw — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:37:10 +0000

No, no one has invited to fly me down under to report (though I am still willing to negotiate!), but, since I know folks from the South-side check in, I wanted to make sure folks knew about this cool-sounding event: the Wooden Boat Festival, held this year in Melbourne, Australia on February 20-21. According to [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Catching up with the traditional boat blogosphere – recent stuff from some peers

Tim Shaw — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:56:04 +0000

I have so engaged in designing and building that I haven’t been on the computer as much in the PMs. I have clearly been missing out on what some of our traditional boat peeps have been putting up. In case you missed it directly, here is some stuff to check out:

Indigenous Boats Bob over [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Fantastic read: Tim Severin’s “The Brendan Voyage”

Tim Shaw — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:18:08 +0000

Last Winter we finally read one of Tim Severin’s books, The China Voyage: Across The Pacific By Bamboo Raft and posted some reactions, all positive. One of our friends said, at the time, that if we liked that book, Severin’s The Brendan Voyage: Across the Atlantic in a Leather Boat was better still. Well, [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Two contests of note – please check these out

Tim Shaw — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:05:20 +0000

Two quick notes on contests, one germane to this blog and one which is shameless, self-serving promotion (but a good cause nonetheless). We’ll get the latter in first. My company, Forum One Communications, has entered the Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America 2 contest. Our entry is called DataMasher, and it lets you relate government data [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

A long-overdue shout-out to Gary Dierking’s Outrigger Sailing Canoes Blog

Tim Shaw — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:25:28 +0000

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 this [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

skinboats.org – a great resource for skin-on-frame boatbuilding

Tim Shaw — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:00:30 +0000

OK – its best I admit it. They say that is the first step. I am thinking about a new boat already. I want to build to my own design. I have some ideas coming together – I’ll share more when there is more to share. The key point is that every time I [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The beautiful artwork of James Dodds

Tim Shaw — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:00:55 +0000

I am way behind on posting stuff and am trying to crawl out of it. One post come courtesy of my dad. Messum’s, and art gallery in London, had been selling the work of James Dodds. It looks like they are no longer, so I had to track the work down directly at Dodds’ own [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

WoodenBoat adds a blog: My Wooden Boat of the Week

Tim Shaw — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:18:03 +0000

Congrats to our friends at WoodenBoat, publisher Carl Cramer in particular, for launching the new blog My Wooden Boat of the Week. It looks like it is what it sounds like. This week’s entry is on training boats used in New Zealand. Interesting little boats. We’ll keep an eye on this blog to see what [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Making your own sails – WoodenBoat’s Tom Jackson follows up

Tim Shaw — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:10:58 +0000

Not long ago, I noted a great article Tom Jackson of WoodenBoat did on selecting the rig for the boat he was building. A more recent issues, #205, the November/December 2008 one, includes a follow up piece that is also worthwhile. Jackson decided to make his own sails even though, in his words, “I had [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

WoodenBoat Show 2009 – time for planning

Tim Shaw — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:52:58 +0000

Alas, I doubt I will be able to make it – again – but other show get thee to Mystic, CT on June 26th-28th for the 2009 WoodenBoat Show. Its at Mystic Seaport, one of the better maritime museums around, so that in itself is enough reason to go, but there looks like there will [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Welcome to two nice new blogs from Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Tim Shaw — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:40:55 +0000

Our friends over at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum have been busy. They have launched two new blogs to highlight the activity on their working waterfront. The Apprentice for a Day blog highlights that program, in which we at Chine bLog have been proud and happy participants. There are some pictures of the building, but [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Thinking about a ocean voyage on a bamboo raft? Read “The China Voyage”

Tim Shaw — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:32:58 +0000

I actually had the crazed idea to read a book recently. Doesn't happen much - I am lucky if I can clear my magazine rack in a given month. Long on my to do list, though, had been reading some of Tim Severin's works. Severin is an Irishman (at least he lives there) with an fascinating joint interest in history, archeology, and epic voyages, mostly maritime ones. Sound intriguing? It gets better. Severin's shtick has been to identify an unproven or poorly understood historical journey, build a traditional boat, if a maritime one, that represents the type of that era, and then recreate the journey to see if it could have happened as theorized. Oh yeah, I am IN! I have known about him for a while and only just got around to checking him out. I began with The China Voyage: Across The Pacific By Bamboo Raft. Apparently there are a group of archeologists who believe (or believed, as of the early 1990s) that there was contact between East Asian cultures and Central American cultures within the last couple millennia. [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Break out the champaign bottle – Chine bLog has relaunched!

Tim Shaw — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:22:58 +0000

The new site blog has been up for a week or so while we got things straightened out (call it “sea trials”), but we are no ready to call the site relaunched! [Ka-shiiiinnggggg! Sploooosshhhh!] I now rechristen thee “Chine bLog.” We have tried to update the graphic appearance of the site and will be adding [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Bowsprite – a very cool new maritime blog

Tim Shaw — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:39:14 +0000

Thanks to Bowsprite for stopping by and prompting us to return the favor. What a great blog. Its author is apparently a nice sketch artist with an affinity for the maritime comings and goings in greater New York Harbor. Great stuff here and well worth scrolling through the portfolio.

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Deliciously “crazy” design concept from Proafile

Tim Shaw — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:08:15 +0000

I just popped over to Proafile, where I don’t spend enough time, and was rewarded with a really nice piece of small boat design mind-candy. Michael Schacht, who writes the blog, has a concept that is one-part heresy and one-part genius – the stuff we need more of. He has taken a “sacred” design, [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.