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 Posted on February 19th,2012I had not heard of John Fairfax,but I ran cross a tweet (by @halliew) of his NY Times obit. What a fantastic read! The guy was first to row solo across an ocean (Atlantic) and also did the Pacific with a partner. And these were just the later adventures in his life. Check this [...]  Posted on January 16th,2012I also read,in recent times,Tim Severin‘s “The Jason Voyage”,his attempt at following the mythical story of Jason and the Argonauts. He had a Bronze Age Aegean galley built using archeological evidence and historical texts. This was the real deal –it would have banks of rowers toiling away and the characteristic “ram”[...] Posted on January 15th,2012I have had some time to sift through the back catalog here at Chine bLog headquarters and noted that I never covered a few key books I read in the last couple years. In particular,after knocking off Tim Severin‘s The China Voyage and then his The Brendan Voyage,I moved on to his some [...] Posted on November 30th,2011Coming across the “wires”a couple months ago was news from the Dana Point (CA) Times that crews of Polynesians are still sailing traditional vakas –voyaging canoes –across the Pacfic using traditonal techniques. This was particularly interesting to me as a recently read Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors:Reviving Polynesian Voyaging [...] Posted on February 25th,2011As a father of a child afflicted with autism and as a avid supporter of boatbuilding and boat adventures I was in love with news in Chesapeake Light Craft’s e-newsletter today of a great new voyage. Neil Calore is a Philadelphia firefighter who built a CLC Northeaster Dory as part of a CLC class last [...] Posted on November 12th,2010I found this piece from several months back (via My WoodenBoat of the Week) about a couple paddling from Phuket,Thailand to San Francisco via the Bering Sea. I concur with one other reader that it is a nicely-built Nick Shade design. Anyone heard tell of this voyage? Category:Extended Voyages,Kayaks |  Tags:guillemot kayaks,pacific,voyage |  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 February 24th,2009 I actually had the crazed idea to read a book recently. Doesn’t happen much –I am lucky if I can clear my magazine rack in a given month. Long on my to do list,though,had been reading some of Tim Severin’s works. Severin is an Irishman (at least he lives there) with an fascinating joint interest in history,archeology,and epic voyages,mostly maritime ones. Sound intriguing? It gets better. Severin’s shtick has been to identify an unproven or poorly understood historical journey,build a traditional boat,if a maritime one,that represents the type of that era,and then recreate the journey to see if it could have happened as theorized. Oh yeah,I am IN! I have known about him for a while and only just got around to checking him out. I began with The China Voyage:Across The Pacific By Bamboo Raft. | ||
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Apparently there are a group of archeologists who believe (or believed,as of the early 1990s) that there was contact between East Asian cultures and Central American cultures within the last couple millennia. [...]