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 Posted on February 27th,2012I wrote recently a couple of reviews of books by Tim Severin and promised a couple more. Well,behold. As I noted in the prior post,Severin took a few months off after his exploration of the history behind the Jason and the Argonauts story and the returned to Turkey with the same galley he [...]  Posted on March 21st,2009Many thanks to our friend Michaela Hackner who is en route home from Bali and somehow found time during a 9-hour layover in Tokyo to send us her picture of Balinese jukungs lying shoreside. My guess is that these serve the tourist trade,but they look authentic enough to call them the real deal. [...] Posted on January 21st,2009Its not fair. We would love to have really deep,informative stuff here at Chine bLog,but we never have time. Our pal Bob at Indigenous Boats manages to do crazy stuff like read books,so so I find myself needing to just point to his blog. And point I must,because he has tacked [...] Category:Larger Traditional Boats |  Tags:fishing boat,indigenous boats,indonesia,jukung,lateen rig |  2 comments |  Trackback this Post Posted on January 10th,2009Speaking of boats with great,but arguably impractical,ends,I raise the Balinese Jukung,a double-outrigger sailing canoe (lateen rigged) with a unique bow (thanks to Wikipedia for the image). Bob over at Indigenous Boats did a nice post on Jukungs last year,but they have been on my radar for a while. This [...] Category:Larger Traditional Boats | Tags:fishing boat,indigenous boats,indonesia,jukung | 6 comments | Trackback this Post | ||
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