Chine bLog

The Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival is pretty contained, but there are a number of boats to see, so it took me a bit before I wandered over to the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association tent. This seems like a cool organization. Their site has a master list of canoe plans, a suppliers directory, and historical info about Old Town canoes. This organization is definitely worth checking out.

They had a few well-restored cedar-and-canvas canoes there, including this one. Pretty boat - someone took care on this one - it looks like there is a substantial amount of original wood in her. She looks nice on the water as well...

Here are most of the other pictures I took at the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival.

There are so many cool boats to see at the Center for Wooden Boats. I noticed a bunch that weren't there in my prior visit. Here's a little slide show of them:

Of course, Gavin Atkin over at intheboatshed.net has posted like 50 times since my last one, and there is what I am coming to realize is the usual array of interesting stuff in there. I was particularly interested to see Gavin's discussion of sailing canoes. He begins:

One of the biggest surprises I’ve had during the short life of intheboatshed.net has been the level of interest in sailing canoes and canoe yawls: posts on these attract more attention than almost any others.

I agree that there is a small, burning need in a group of people to get more of a taste for traditional small sailing craft. At Chine bLog, I get lots of interest in my discussions of Iain Oughtred craft. Of course that could be because the good man has no web site and there are only a handful where one can find much of anything....

As my two-to-three long-time readers know, I am fully in the camp of people have a thing for boats like these sailing canoes. So it was with much excitement that I found that Gavin had unearthed a set of lines drawings for a number of sailing canoes from various eras. On a quick glance, some really good stuff. This is courtesy of, as far as I can tell, the Canadian arm of the International Canoe Federation's site. I am eager to explore this more, but here is a nice sample: