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 Posted on January 22nd,2010I 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 [...]  Category:Boat Media &Events,Boatbuilding,Boating &Boating Places,Canoes,Kayaks,Larger Traditional Boats,Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival,Paddling Outrigger Canoes,Rowing Boats,Sailing Canoes,Proas,&Sailing Outriggers,Wooden Boat Blog |  Tags:70.8,anayak kayaks,bark canoe,beothuk,dhow,dory,dugout canoe,galway hooker,proa,sailing,scottish coastal rowing project,shaman kayaks,skin on frame,tlingit,voyaging canoe,work boat |  Leave a comment |  Trackback this Post Posted on September 30th,2009The latest issue of Outside Magazine includes a great article titled “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”about a six-person crew’s voyage in a hand-made,21′,open sloop from the southern coast of Haiti to Florida. The goal was to trace the route of refugees in a native craft. This is one [...] Category:Extended Voyages,Small Sail Craft | Tags:caribbean,haiti,outside magazine,sailing,sloop,voyage | One comment | Trackback this Post Posted on September 29th,2008New reader Alton Stone recently left a comment on one of my posts about Delaware Duckers. He was interested in upgrading his rig and was nice enough to respond to my info with some pictures (included here) and color commentary. If anyone can help him,please drop a comment and I will make sure he [...] Category:Small Sail Craft | Tags:delaware ducker,sailing,sprit rig | 2 comments | Trackback this Post Posted on September 11th,2008Some “shuckie darns”business travel recently:back to Seattle,which means,yes,more visits to the Center for Wooden Boats,which I praised a bit back. I got in two visits and availed myself of a row and a sail. Both were great. It had been a long time –a frighteningly [...] Posted on June 21st,2008I was in Seattle for business last week,which allowed me to make a pilgrimage to the Center for Wooden Boats,a place so cool I cannot contain it to a single post,nor even two. In fact,friends,a roughly two-and-a half-hour visit gave me four interesting posts to lay out for you. [...] Posted on May 19th,2008And so,like all good things,another set of sessions with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Apprentice for a Day program has ended. And what a way to go –sailing a Delaware Ducker,the sister of the one on which I have been working. We got two little sails in,with some fine tuning of [...] | ||
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