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 Posted on May 29th, 2008My daughter’s kindergarten class had “X” week last week. We had to find SOMETHING original for her to bring. Something struck me in the back of my mind, and a quick Google brought it to me: “Xebec.” A xebec, according to the authority, Wikipedia, is: a Mediterranean sea sailing ship that was [...] Category: 2. Designs & Designers |
 Tags: geo-afr, sailing ship, ship model, traditional boat, xebec |
 Leave a comment |  Trackback this Post Posted on December 13th, 2007One 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. This, my friends, is a lovely dugout canoe [...] Category: 2A. Canoes & Kayaks |
Tags: africa, african wildlife foundation, congo river, dugout canoe, geo-afr, great design, traditional boat |
Leave a comment | Trackback this Post Posted on December 5th, 2007Thanks to Ruth from the blog VazahaGasy for picking up my last post on her partner’s building of a traditional Malagasy fishing boat. She updated her pictures to include a few of the boat under sail. As I suspected would be the case, the boat carries a loose-footed lanteen rig. Really, I [...] Category: 2. Designs & Designers, 3. Boatbuilding |
Tags: africa, fishing boat, geo-afr, great design, lanteen rig, madagascar, traditional boat |
2 comments | Trackback this Post Posted on November 29th, 2007Today I came upon an interesting post and some great pictures courtesy of the blog VazahaGasy and author Ruth Frost. The post outlines the author’s experience watching the building of a traditional Malagasy fishing boat. It is a quick read, clearly an interested, observant, non-boatbuilder’s take on the process. No matter [...] Category: 3. Boatbuilding |
Tags: africa, fishing boat, geo-afr, madagascar, traditional boat |
Leave a comment | Trackback this Post Posted on October 3rd, 2007We 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 [...] Category: 2A. Canoes & Kayaks, 7. Destinations & Voyages |
Tags: africa, dugout canoe, geo-afr, lake malawi, lake nyasa, malawi, nyasa, traditional boat |
Leave a comment | Trackback this Post Posted on May 15th, 2007I 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 [...] Category: 2A. Canoes & Kayaks, 2B. Day Sailers, 5. Boat Media |
Tags: africa, bamboo raft, china, dugout canoe, geo-afr, geo-asia, lanteen rig, lisa kristine, mali, niger river, photographer, traditional boat, zanzibar |
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