Skinboat Journal

This blog is about various boat and environment related topics that I care to comment on. First and foremost, this blog is about skin on frame boats, their construction and use, as well as paddle and other stuff related to skin boat use.

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Unangan (Aleut) Paddle Orientation Revisited

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I already have two posts on how Unangan paddlers held their paddles. To read them, type paddle orientation into the blogger search box on t...

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Double Ridged Unangan (Aleut) Kayak Paddle

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A while back, Suzawa Ikunori of Japan posted some pictures of several Unangan paddles in a Japanese Museum. Unlike most of the Unangan paddl...

Monday, March 19, 2012

Paddle Design - Stability

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In this post I want to focus on ways to design a paddle so it orients itself in the proper direction for paddling without a lot of effort on...

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Wolfgang Brinck: I like to look into old and mostly abandoned technologies that people used before the industrial age and also technologies that were used in non agricultural societies. I have a hunch that some of these technologies will again become relevant in a more resource-poor future. If you want to contact me directly, you can reach me at: my first name followed by nomadic at gmail dot com

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