Thanks to Bob over at Indigenous Boats for his recent post highlighting Paddle Making (and other canoe stuff), a blog by a Canadian canoeist / paddlemaker / artist named Murat. The site has a gallery tool to view paddles Murat has made – they are almost universally stunning. Well worth keeping this one [...]
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 Posted on December 20th, 2009Category: 2A. Canoes & Kayaks, 4A. Paddling |
 Tags: canoe accessories, canoe paddle, murat, traditional boat |
 Leave a comment |  Trackback this Post Posted on April 13th, 2009The second highlight of our recent revisit to the National Museum of the American Indian began as we entered the grounds. I looked up and saw a series fo decorated canoe paddles in an upper-story window. “Must get to that spot” I thought. Without much trouble we found them in a resource [...] Posted on December 16th, 2008I was able to get in a quick peek at the National Museum of the American Indian, which keeps a few traditional boats in its rotunda. I have written about the semi-traditional Inuit kayak before, but I didn’t have a shot of the completed boat. Here she is. The boat is pretty and definitely [...] Posted on September 11th, 2008There 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: Posted on September 15th, 2005My first recent boatbuilding-type project was a canoe paddle for my daughter. It was her first birthday present. She’s three now and may soon be ready for it. It is a pretty simple – I just carved it out of a 1×6 – but it was my first jump back into this world after [...] |
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