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, October 23, 2013

The Camping Yurt

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I built a ten foot diameter yurt suitable for camping. The ten foot diameter seemed suitably large for comfort but not so large as to prov...

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Camping as Space Travel

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Camping is often lauded as a way for harried urbanites to re-connect with nature. Well maybe. Decades ago, I used to go on canoe trips t...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Water We Eat

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One of the things that traveling does is give one a broader perspective on the world than is available from staying in one place. My recent...

The Giant Sequoia and Some Random Thoughts on Trees and Wood

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It is one thing to see wood at a lumber yard and it is quite another thing to see it in the form of a living tree. Unlike the stuff in the ...

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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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