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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 [...]

Sweet Hawaiian sailing canoes – The Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Association [Hawaii, USA]

Posted on March 19th, 2008

I came upon the site for the Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Association tonight. Mostly info about their race series, but they do have a nice photo gallery that is worth looking at. Looks like these boats absolutely fly – I need to try one.

Photo by Terry Galpin

Location: Hawaii, USA

More on proa racing in the Marshall Islands – videos on YouTube

Posted on December 9th, 2007

Location: Majuro, Marshall Islands

The other night, I added a post about the return of proa racing to the Marshall Islands. Don’t you know, then, that days later, we now have some video of the 2001 races. “aqlunafoo” added a post to the Proa-file yahoo group with four interesting videos. Many thanks!

Here [...]

The return of proa racing in the Marshall Islands

Posted on December 5th, 2007

We are going around the world tonight here at Chine bLog! Madagascar! Antigua! And now, drum-roll, please, the Marshall Islands! That’s right: three oceans, three island nations, and, best of all, three traditional wooden sailing craft! Wooohoooo!

Our offering from the Marshalls (in the middle of the Pacific) is a recent [...]

Movie you need to see: “Ten Canoes”

Posted on November 12th, 2007

Here’s a movie you Chine bLog readers should see: “Ten Canoes.” The movie recounts an Australian Aboriginal myth, highlighting the culture and practices of the people of far Northern Australia in the process. It is another in the genre of movie that features actual members of an indigenous community in the area [...]

Cool sailing canoe from Papua New Guinea

Posted on April 26th, 2007

Cool boats turn up in all kinds of places. This one turned up in a calendar I got from an ocean conservation project, Seas the Day, from The Ocean Project. We’ll ignore the pun, folks, because you found a great boat. This appears to be a double hull canoe of sorts, aka, [...]

“A Voyaging Canoe for Tikopia” – an effort to keep South Pacific traditions alive

Posted on September 19th, 2006

Staying in the same part of the world – and I mean the South Pacific, not Western PA – I note this project: “A Voyaging Canoe for Tikopia,” sponsored by British designer James Wharram. Wharram aims to build two double canoes in the voyaging canoe tradition of the South Western Pacific and donate [...]

Hawaiian outrigger canoe – another treasure at NMAI

Posted on February 25th, 2006

The other treasure to be found at The National Museum of the American Indian is a Hawaiian outrigger canoe.

I love this boat – the native Koa wood is so rich – you can see why there was such a ritual around the treatment of these trees.

The boat is built by native Hawaiians, and while they [...]

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