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A couple classic wooden working boats at the Maritime Museum of San Diego

Posted on July 15th, 2008

I had an opportunity to stroll briefly past the Maritime Museum of San Diego this weekend. Looks like a nice spot for those interested in ships. I did find a couple nice-looking local wooden work boats. The first is a little fishing boat that apparently traces its roots to the Mediterranean, courtesy [...]

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

Posted on June 21st, 2008

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 one. [...]

The Center for Wooden Boats – Part 1: Sailing the Cape Ann Dory Q’ONA

Posted on June 21st, 2008

I was in Seattle for business last week, which allowed me to make a pilgrimage to the Center for Wooden Boats, a place so cool I cannot contain it to a single post, nor even two. In fact, friends, a roughly two-and-a half-hour visit gave me four interesting posts to lay out for you. [...]

The first boats – they may be older – a lot older – than we think

Posted on June 15th, 2008

It has been an exciting few weeks for anyone interested in the origins of boats and boating, as we are here at Chine bLog. It turns out that humans may have discovered the ways of the maritime life long before science generally believed. First, I read a great article in the next to [...]

MISTER JIM, a nice Chesapeake Bay workboat

Posted on April 17th, 2008

On my most recent trip to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum I took a quick wander around to check out the other beauties. Among the beauties was this one: MISTER JIM. “Mister Jim” just screams beauty, no?

Location: St. Michaels, MD, USA

Introducing myself to the Delaware Ducker – apprenticing again at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Posted on April 6th, 2008

For Christmas this year, Mrs. Chine bLog again gave me a four-pack of days apprenticing with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Apprentice for a Day program. You may recall my very happy time doing this last year. This is SUCH a sweet deal. For $25 ($15 if you do the right thing and [...]

A great honor for a great designer: Lifetime Achievement Award for Phil Bolger

Posted on January 18th, 2008

It is as simple as this: say what you want about appearances, if you like messing about in small boats you have to regard Phil Bolger as a true boat design genius. And it isn’t like all of his work tilts to the purely practical. He did the Gloucester Light Dory. [...]

Roger Fletcher and the river boats of the American West

Posted on December 28th, 2007

There is logic to this, but I won’t get into it. Suffice it to say that I had recently been thinking about the wooden dories and river boats indigenous to the American West. I don’t know much about these boats and have never been in one, so I don’t think about them much [...]

A final sighting – for now – at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Posted on April 16th, 2007

A final note from Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum – I mentioned Dan Sutherland below. I parked, not yet beknownst to me, next to his truck, which had an interesting looking boat on top of it. I was pretty sure I correctly pegged it as a replica of an old sailing canoe, and right [...]

Making sawdust again – apprenticing at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Posted on March 3rd, 2007

As my regular readers know (you know who you three are), I am longer on boat building desire than I am on facilities and time to actually do it. Ergo, I blog… That all changed today, however, and will again three out of the next four weekends. Courtesy of a thoughtful Christmas [...]

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