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Awesome dugout outrigger canoes and other Pacific art – Tevita Kunato

Tim Shaw — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:15:42 +0000

We are feelin’ South Pacific here at Chine bLog. We have some sweet new tunes from Papua playing (Akave by George Telek) and just had the pleasure of discovering an amazing boatbuilder and artist. We found Tevita Kunato via our friend Gary Dierking over at Outrigger Sailing Canoes. Tevita Kunato is the business name for [...] Related posts:

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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.

Sustainable whaling in traditional boats: “In Search Of Moby Dick” by Tim Severin

Tim Shaw — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 03:19:18 +0000

I have written about Tim Severin a few times, always with admiration and excitement. I had noticed one of his newer books, In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale, in the library and had passed on it, thinking it less interesting. I was wrong.

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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.

More new stuff at the National Museum of the American Indian

Tim Shaw — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:11:09 +0000

The 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 area. Through [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

The Center for Wooden Boats – Part 2: Real Haida dugout canoes!

Tim Shaw — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:47:00 +0000

Hopefully you enjoyed my last post on my first rental experience at the the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. Let me now step back to some of the other treasures I saw there.

I thought they might have a Haida dugout canoe there, and I was itching to see a real [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Traditional boat lovers are in the house! Welcome Indigenous Boats!

Tim Shaw — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:16:21 +0000

Our good friend Gavin over at intheboatshed.net has score another great find. Thanks muchly, Gavin, for introducing us to Bob Holtzman and his new (I take it) blog “Indigenous Boats – Small Craft Outside the Western Tradition.” All of a sudden we find our selves with lots of company here, but heck, if it helps [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Dugout canoe from the Congo River basin

Tim Shaw — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:52:33 +0000

One of my favorite web sites is that for the African Wildlife Foundation (full disclosure: it was designed and build by my company, Forum One Communications). It is packed full of gorgeous images, but I kept running into one that stuck with me, for obvious reasons.

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Boats of Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa), Africa

Tim Shaw — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:06:19 +0000

We bloggers tend to pay a great deal of attention to our web stats – page views, visitors, visits, etc. It is a tangible validation that somebody is paying attention. Or, in my case, 50-75 somebodies a month, pretty consistently (you know who you are). One area I am always eager to see is the [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Relief – The Smithsonian Folklife Festival delivers

Tim Shaw — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:04:00 +0000

I called out the Smithsonian Folklife Festival recently and I am pleased to say I was wrong. There was indeed an exhibit on traditional boatbuilding along the Mekong, albeit one boat from one group of people. It was not a total loss, so bravo for not having the big miss I initially suspected.

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Stunning traditional boat images by San Francisco’s Lisa Kristine

Tim Shaw — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:13:48 +0000

I recently had to go to a conference in Sonoma, CA. It was a rough assignment, what with all that wine tasting, but I managed to pull through. Along the way I stumbled on the gallery of Lisa Kristine, a San Francisco-based photographer. Ms. Kristine specializes in images of indigenous peoples and the nice thing [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Postcard from Vietnam – literally – a panorama of traditional boats

Tim Shaw — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:36:37 +0000

My sister recently went to Vietnam and sent us this great postcard:

This is apparently a floating market, and, while no doubt somewhat touristy, this is still a country with emerging tourist infrastructure – its probably not too far off traditional maritime life. I like that there’s quite a diversity of boats, with small [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

More from Rare – traditional dugout canoes for Honduran ecotourism

Tim Shaw — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:12:57 +0000

My new client, Rare, who had a project I blogged about recently, has redone their web site and now includes, among many other nice features, some nice photos from its work supporting an ecotourism venture in Honduras. Such work is always exciting because it tends to be such a win-win-win-etc. proposition. One highlight of [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Canoes bring democracy in the Congo

Tim Shaw — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:21:23 +0000

I love these stories, like this one from Reuters or this one from the UN about dugout canoes bring ballots to parts of the Congo. Who says traditional boats don’t still have important geopolitical roles to play?

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Useful site devoted to native Canadian watercraft

Tim Shaw — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:24:50 +0000

I found this last night: Civilization.ca’s section on watercraft built by Canada’s First Nations People. For a web-based resource, it appears to have a nice overview of some traditional boats. I find these dugouts in particular to be quite lovely.

It also covers kayaks, umiaks, birchbarks, and other flavors of dugout. Seems [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.