Showing posts with label baidarka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baidarka. Show all posts
Monday, August 15, 2016

Fourteen Foot Baidarka Rebuild

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This particular boat suffered the indignity of shrinking skin which caved in a good percentage of its ribs.  So I decided that it was time t...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Baidarka Chair

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What do you do with an old baidarka (kayak) once it starts falling apart?  Why you make a chair out of it. I don't know the details ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Woman - Dog Boat

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Inka Petersen launched her two hatch baidarka yesterday.  One hatch was for her, the other for her dog, Rosie.  The boat was a bit of a chal...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Preparing for the Apocalypse

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Screen shot from the video game, The Last of Us, published by Naughty Dog The creative arts are often a good indicator of a culture'...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Old Kayak, Bent Ribs

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I've got one more set of photos on deck for the old kayak series.  Not that I don't have more old kayaks or old kayak photos, but it...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Danes Build Baidarkas

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Danish kayak builder and teacher Svend Ulstrup,  sent me some photos of the work he is doing in Denmark. Apparently, his students just fi...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Iqyax^ (Baidarka) Research

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I am currently working on the improved Bay Boat, that is, San Francisco Bay Boat.  The baidarka I had been paddling most frequently is abou...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The iqyax^ and the Sea Otter

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A few years ago, a friend of mine gave me a bronze model of an Unangan kayak.  This year, my wife gave me a bronze sea otter. Coincidentally...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Baidarka-Iqyax^ Interior

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Inside of the baidarka, newly built with the sun coming through the skin.  Sure is pretty.
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Another Iqyax^

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My friend Patty, Unangan bent-wood hat maker sent me this photo.  Sharon, the young woman in the picture made a scale model iqyax^ by follow...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Lashomatic Video

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I took this video a few years ago.  Quality is so so, but it gets a few points across.  The main point is that the lashing of hull stringers...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Two New Kayaks

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Over the last month or so, students built two new boats.  These turned out quite nice. Both are baidarka variants, that is, inspired by an A...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

A Visit to the Hearst Museum

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No, not the Hearst Castle, the Hearst Museum at the UC Berkely campus. Named after Phoebie Hearst, philanthropist mother of William Randolph...