Chine bLog » friendship sloop http://www.chineblog.com Messing about in wooden, traditional, and tradition-inspired boats Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:06:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A new fusion of tradition design sketch – “Friendship Slumiak” http://www.chineblog.com/2011/11/a-new-fusion-of-tradition-design-sketch-friendship-slumiak/ http://www.chineblog.com/2011/11/a-new-fusion-of-tradition-design-sketch-friendship-slumiak/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:47:56 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/2011/11/a-new-fusion-of-tradition-design-sketch-friendship-slumiak/

I had a couple management meetings this week that provided for doodling space. I have been thinking about a larger skin-on-frame craft ad that led me to umiaks. The name then came to me and so a boat needed to come of it: an umiak-construction hull with lines and rig evoking that classiest of [...] Related posts:

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