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Comedy + canoe building: actor Nick Offerman talks strip-building with comedian Adam Carolla

Posted on May 17th, 2010

Thanks to colleague @cvonspiegelfeld for the heads up on this: actor Nick Offerman (currently of NBC’s Parks & Recreation) was on comedian Adam Carolla’s podcast talking about woodworking in general and, in particular, Nick’s recent canoe-building projects. Warning – it’s for mature audiences only. Actually, Carolla seems to be a bit of an arse [...]

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

Posted on January 22nd, 2010

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 at Indigenous [...]

Another skin-on-frame resource: The Berkshire Boat Building School

Posted on October 14th, 2009

Just a quick note to call out another skin-on-frame resource: The Berkshire Boat Building School. They seem to build a couple nice-looking canoes and rowing boats and offer kits and classes. Worth checking out further.

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

Posted on April 21st, 2009

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 [...]

Very cool – a new finding at the National Museum of the American Indian

Posted on April 12th, 2009

OK, call me thick if you will, but I had never noticed a cool feature of the National Museum of the American Indian here in Washington, DC. As I have mentioned before in a few posts, there as a small, but spectacular, collection of four native craft displayed in the main foyer of the [...]

Traditional boats in the petri dish – understanding cultural evolution via canoe design

Posted on January 16th, 2009

Nothing quite like an academic article on a Friday night to really get you going… and yet, its true. I just was reviewing a piece from a year ago in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Deborah S. Rogers and
Paul R. Ehrlich contributed the [...]

The beautiful rowed fishing canoes of Orchid Island

Posted on January 10th, 2009

Others have picked up on the post by Caro’s Choice about the launch of a new canoe on Lanyu, or Orchid Island, off Taiwan. I had to pile on because these are some amazing-looking boats.

They are 10-seat rowing canoes with flared sides and elaborate carving / painting. Oh, and the ends [...]

Skin-on-frame boat treat – Inuit kayak and Ojibwe birch bark canoe

Posted on December 16th, 2008

I 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 [...]

Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival in review – the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association

Posted on October 6th, 2008

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 [...]

Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival LIVE! – My collected pictures

Posted on October 5th, 2008

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

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