Location: Hawaii, USA

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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!

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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 where [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.chineblog.com/2007/11/movie-you-need-to-see-ten-canoes/feed/ 0 http://www.chineblog.com/2007/04/cool-sailing-canoe-from-papua-new-guinea/ http://www.chineblog.com/2007/04/cool-sailing-canoe-from-papua-new-guinea/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:40:08 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/165-guid.html 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 [...] Related posts:

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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 them [...] Related posts:

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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.

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