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Catching up with the traditional boat blogosphere - recent stuff from some peersCatching up with the traditional boat blogosphere –recent stuff from some peers

Posted on January 22nd,2010

I have so engaged in designing and building that I haven’t been on the computer as much in the PMs. I have clearly been missing out on what some of our traditional boat peeps have been putting up. In case you missed it directly,here is some stuff to check out:

Indigenous Boats Bob over [...]

A long-overdue shout-out to Gary Dierking’s Outrigger Sailing Canoes Blog

Posted on April 22nd,2009

I noticed a while ago that our friend Gary Dierking,the Kiwi outrigger maestro,has been running a blog to compliment and promote his work. Take this as a study in how well I am doing at keeping up on this blog these days –I am just now getting to an appreciation of this [...]

Deliciously “crazy”design concept from Proafile

Posted on January 16th,2009

I just popped over to Proafile,where I don’t spend enough time,and was rewarded with a really nice piece of small boat design mind-candy. Michael Schacht,who writes the blog,has a concept that is one-part heresy and one-part genius –the stuff we need more of. He has taken a “sacred”design,[...]

Traditional boats in the petri dish –understanding cultural evolution via canoe design

Posted on January 16th,2009

Nothing quite like an academic article on a Friday night to really get you going…and yet,its true. I just was reviewing a piece from a year ago in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Deborah S. Rogers and Paul R. Ehrlich contributed the piece “Natural [...]

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 are some [...]

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 article in Pacific [...]

Check it out –the kite-proa

Posted on November 28th,2007

The Proa File Yahoo! Group has an interesting discussion around one member’s experimental kite-powered proa. It seems to be an interesting concept with kinks still enmeshed. The first post includes a link to some videos,which aren’t as dramatic as I had hoped. It isn’t clear how fast the boat was going,but it seems [...]

Great blog on proas – Proafile

Posted on May 15th,2007

Here’s another one I found via Gary Dierking at Outrigger Sailing Canoes:Proafile. Editor Michael Schacht seems to really know the topic and all sorts of useful content,such as a really good glossary and design information. This one is a keeper.

Nice YouTube video of a proa sailing in Miami

Posted on May 15th,2007

Interesting video of a proa sailing off Miami. Thanks to the Proa File International Yahoo! Group for noting this. I got to them via our old friend Gary Dierking at Outrigger Sailing Canoes in New Zealand.

A better look at the boat is here:

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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 catamaran. That [...]

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