Tuesday, December 16, 2008

New Kayak Fishing Guide

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Tony Mullins who built a Greenland kayak with me about 3 years ago has been training his grandson Sean in the kayak paddling arts. Sean in...
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New Kayak Launch

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Here we are celebrating the launching of two new kayaks. Tony Mullins was the photographer. Champagne, courtesy of Sidney to the far left. ...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Contemporary Aleut Boat Builders

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Mike Livingston is active in teaching traditional Aleut culture in Alaskan schools. It's not the only thing he does, but it's one o...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Aleut Boat Builders/Elders, part trois

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Here are some more Aleut/Unangan boat builder photos. The first one is from a book written by Ethel Ross Oliver. She was a school teacher ...
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Monday, December 8, 2008

Aleut Boat Builders/Elders

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I found some photos of Aleut boat builders/elders and am posting them here as promised. These photos and captions were posted at the school ...
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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Aleut Boat Builders

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Mike Livingston asked me if I had anything on Aleut elders on my website. I told him no, reason being that I have never had a chance to tal...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Genuine Eskimo Kayak For Sale

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Bob Hoerger of Palo Alto brought the following ad from the November 1940 issue of Pacific Motorboat to my attention: FOR SALE: Genuine Eskim...
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Skinboat Rendezvous

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We had a skinboat rendezvous yesterday in Alameda. Several skin boat builders brought their boats for review by each other and the general ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Trinidad

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No, not the one in the Caribbean, the one in Northern California. This is where the Arcata crowd paddles. Trinidad Head, a big rock connect...

Stability, part 2

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Scroll down for stability part 1. This is stability part 2. The stability of kayaks is not just an attribute of the boat, but an attribute...

Arcata Boat Show

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I went up to the Arcata Wooden Boat show in June. Just publishing photos now. Modern boats don't much impress me. I guess it's th...

Driftwood Projects, Part 1

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Here's a handy dandy kayak rack I made out of driftwood. The driftwood happend to be two by six planks of redwood that were floating ar...
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Arcata Kayak Building Class

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I did a Greenland kayak building class up in Arcata, CA. For those of you not into CA geography, Arcata is on the north end of Humboldt Bay...

Wolfgang and the Whale

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I did a boat building class up in Arcata, CA. First day I got there, I joined some of the local paddlers on the water. About 15 minutes int...

It's Been a While

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It's been a while since I posted here. I'm back. Been busy actually doing stuff and blogging has taken a back seat. Hard to blog ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

On the stability of small boats, part 1

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This is not going to be a detailed discussion on the stability of small boats. I will actually write something for my website and it will b...
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On explaining stuff

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Many years ago I had a job as a writer of technical manuals. If a machine was novel or its working wasn't common knowledge, the manual u...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Today's Shipwreck

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Boats don't last forever. Sooner or later they die, and when they do it's often right in the water in an inconvenient place. Often...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Boys Build Boats

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Some pictures of boats being built. A Greenland one and an Aleut one.
Thursday, May 1, 2008

May Day

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My wife just informed me that today is May day. In many parts of the world, this is a holiday, kind of like Labor Day in the US. I suspect...