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There were a few items I thought it would be useful to touch upon in summary.

Muscongus Bay Let me start with the area I picked. Simply [...] Related posts:

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The boaters – two Americans and a South African – traveled some 1,000 miles of river this way, through some of the densest concentrations of man-killing wildlife in the world. They were on a quiet stretch of [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2010/12/kayaking-tragedy-in-the-congo-basin/feed/ 0 http://www.chineblog.com/2010/11/trans-pacific-in-a-strip-built-kayak/ http://www.chineblog.com/2010/11/trans-pacific-in-a-strip-built-kayak/#comments Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:16:05 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=1317 I found this piece from several months back (via My WoodenBoat of the Week) about a couple paddling from Phuket, Thailand to San Francisco via the Bering Sea. I concur with one other reader that it is a nicely-built Nick Shade design. Anyone heard tell of this voyage?

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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.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/12/fantastic-read-tim-severins-the-brendan-voyage/feed/ 3 http://www.chineblog.com/2009/09/a-good-sea-story-the-voyage-of-sipriz/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/09/a-good-sea-story-the-voyage-of-sipriz/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:09:41 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=838 The latest issue of Outside Magazine includes a great article titled “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” about a six-person crew’s voyage in a hand-made, 21′, open sloop from the southern coast of Haiti to Florida. The goal was to trace the route of refugees in a native craft. This is one [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/09/a-good-sea-story-the-voyage-of-sipriz/feed/ 1 http://www.chineblog.com/2009/09/new-paddling-discovery-mattaponi-creek-md/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/09/new-paddling-discovery-mattaponi-creek-md/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:42:02 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=833 I got out in the kayak last weekend for the first time in a few weeks and followed in my paddle strokes from our first and only outing in PEACE OF THE PUZZLE a couple weeks before that. The spot? Mattaponi Creek, off the Patuxent River in Maryland. The canoe trip served to discover this [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/09/new-paddling-discovery-mattaponi-creek-md/feed/ 2 http://www.chineblog.com/2009/03/wonderful-detail-on-the-viking-longship-havhingsten-fra-glendalough/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/03/wonderful-detail-on-the-viking-longship-havhingsten-fra-glendalough/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:28:23 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=690 OK – here’s the deal: We have had some stuff going on, we haven’t been able to post in a bit, and we’ve built up a nice backlog on posts. And it JUST SO HAPPENS that two of them tonight involve the writing of Tom Jackson of WoodenBoat. Pure coincidence, folks. Let’s can those [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/03/wonderful-detail-on-the-viking-longship-havhingsten-fra-glendalough/feed/ 0 http://www.chineblog.com/2009/02/thinking-about-a-ocean-voyage-on-a-bamboo-raft/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/02/thinking-about-a-ocean-voyage-on-a-bamboo-raft/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:32:58 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/?p=657 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.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/02/thinking-about-a-ocean-voyage-on-a-bamboo-raft/feed/ 6 http://www.chineblog.com/2009/02/holiday-treat-my-grandparents-honeymoon-log-book-2/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/02/holiday-treat-my-grandparents-honeymoon-log-book-2/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:41:32 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/338-guid.html

A few days before Christmas I got a package from an uncle with whom I have long since ceased exchanged gifts. It was a medium thickness, letter-sized envelope and left me quite curious. Upon opening it on Christmas morn’ I discovered a very pleasant surprise: it was a copy of the log book my [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/02/holiday-treat-my-grandparents-honeymoon-log-book-2/feed/ 0 http://www.chineblog.com/2009/01/traditional-boats-of-spain-and-great-adventures-the-invisible-workshop/ http://www.chineblog.com/2009/01/traditional-boats-of-spain-and-great-adventures-the-invisible-workshop/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:44:42 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/337-guid.html

Gavin over at intheboatshed pointed us to The Invisible Workshop, a nice blog run by a Brit living in Catalonia, Spain. The author, Ben, built a boat, ONAWIND BLUE, to Gavin’s Light Trow design. Ben seems to camp-cruise the boat around the Western Mediterranean. We are eager to understand how he has formed this [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2009/01/traditional-boats-of-spain-and-great-adventures-the-invisible-workshop/feed/ 2