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Indigenous Boats: June 2014
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. An article in the current issue of Current Archaeology. Tells of multiple logboat finds in Lough Corrib, County Galway, Ireland. I haven't seen the full writeup (it's pay-to-read), but a decent summary appears here. The Early Bronze Age logboat found in Lough Corrib is 12 meters long and probably had a crew of 10-12 paddlers. (Source: Current Archaeology. Thursday, June 19, 2014. The Australian Overlapping-Triangle Raft. A second "deck"...
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Indigenous Boats: Sewn Canoes of the Society Islands
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Friday, April 10, 2015. Sewn Canoes of the Society Islands. Capt Henry Byam Martin, RN, was stationed in Tahiti in 1846-47, observing the French takeover of the island. Our most recent post looked at the dugout canoes of Tahiti. That he observed, while the previous one examined a large sewn double canoe from the Tuamoto Islands. Stitched upper strakes, attached to (probably) a dugout base. The stitches are discontinuous. The curved, mostly-horizontal boom is a m...
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Indigenous Boats: February 2014
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Sunday, February 23, 2014. Education of a Raft Wacko. John Haslett's first raft (top), hoisted a single squaresail on a bipod mast. It was intended for a pure downwind drift voyage from Ecuador to Hawaii. His next three rafts, all with two lateen sails on pole masts, were meant for the more rigorous maneuvering of alongshore sailing on the west coast of South and Central America. (click to enlarge). In Ecuador in 1995, and the wreck of his fourth, Endurancia.
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Indigenous Boats: January 2015
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Paddling Light's Canoe and Kayak Plans: What Price Free? I've been following Bryan Hansel on Twitter for some time, but just recently did I learn about his free canoe and kayak plans. In this recent post. On his blog Paddling Light. He discusses the impact upon his personal finances of giving plans away, and asks readers for advice and opinions: should he continue offering the plans for free? Convert to a fully-paid model? I don't mock...
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Indigenous Boats: A Double Canoe from the Tuamotu Islands
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Saturday, March 28, 2015. A Double Canoe from the Tuamotu Islands. In 1846, the British Admiralty dispatched HMS Grampus. During his year on station, Martin kept a personal journal in which he made numerous watercolor paintings and sketches, and recorded occasional notes, about native watercraft. Tuamotu double canoe, by Capt. Henry Byam Martin, RN. (Click to enlarge.). February 22nd, 1847. Tuamoto double canoe, plan view. Even aside from its sewn construction,.
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Indigenous Boats: July 2014
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Two Current Bits of Nautical Archaeology. A couple of quick marine achaeology links:. Recent news about the discovery of the remarkably intact 16th-century three-masted Swedish warship Mars. Not within our definition of "indigenous boats," but fascinating nonetheless (if you ignore the ludicrous "cursed warship" in the headline of the National Geographic. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Paddle Dry, Warm and Safe. The Junk Blue Book of 1962.
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Indigenous Boats: Capt. Martin's Tahitian Dugouts
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Capt Martin's Tahitian Dugouts. While stationed in Tahiti in 1846-47, Capt. Henry Byam Martin, RN, made several sketches and paintings of local watercraft. Here are all of the dugout canoes which show any useful detail as reproduced in his journal. (See the previous post for a more background and Martin's illustration of a double canoe from Tuomoto. Detail of the above painting, magnified as much as resolution allows. Another scene in wh...
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Indigenous Boats: October 2014
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SMALL CRAFT OUTSIDE THE WESTERN TRADITION. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Sampan Dwellers of Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam. A sampan from the Hue area, probably much like those discussed here. Source: Junk Blue Book. Click any image to enlarge). As being quite natural), and uncritically accepting, idealizing, ancient-and/or-Eastern "wisdom" that is often unwise in the sense that it is unsupported by science and often demonstrably untrue and harmful. 8211; cultures. I. So the sampan dwellers of Tam Giang Lagoon, ...
