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 Posted on January 13th,2011I confess to an act of embezzlement against my employer,Forum One Communications. In passing through the kitchen a saw a stack of holiday cards and one caught my eye,for obvious reasons,so I pilfered it for my office wall: The card came from a client of ours,the MacArthur Foundation (of “genius [...]  Posted on November 21st,2008After our trip to Mozambique in the last post,we at Chine bLog set sail into the Indian Ocean’s rising sun and made Madagascar. Sounds epic,eh? Amazing what you can do on Flickr…anyway,we were moved to explore a little bit because we discovered outrigger canoes,or pirogues,in both places. Many seems [...] 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 lateen rig. Really,I [...] Category:Boatbuilding,Small Sail Craft |  Tags:africa,fishing boat,lateen rig,madagascar |  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 –she [...] Category:Boatbuilding,Larger Traditional Boats | Tags:africa,fishing boat,madagascar | 3 comments | Trackback this Post | ||
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