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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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Tumarayulit - Kayaks able to repair themselves

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In Paitarkiutenka, My Legacy to You, Frank Andrews tells of kayaks able to repair themselves. On page 311 he says, "And some kayaks...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Halfway Round Alameda in a Kayak

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A week or so back I paddled halfway round Alameda, an island off the coast of Oakland. People paddle all the way around the island occasion...

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Friday, November 22, 2013

What Killed the Kayak? Aleut Version - Akutan, Alaska

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Akutan, Alaska is an island in the Aleutians and once a place where people paddled kayaks as a part of making a living. Nowadays the bigges...

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Further Kayak Musings

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In the process of selecting books for my Amazon sub store on this blog, it became apparent to me that I wasn't picking any stitch and gl...

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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...

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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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