Monday, November 30, 2009

Followers

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I know that two, possibly three people follow this blog. Now you have a chance to announce the fact that you follow this blog. Announcing...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Dolphin Club

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The Dolphin Club in San Francisco is a repository of wooden row boats besides also being a place where members do their swimming in SF Bay. ...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto

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Berkeley has this restaurant called Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto. I don't know how good their food is, but if you're ever in the...

Hokusai's boats

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Hokusai has long been my favorite Japanese artist. But for a long time I hadn't looked at his work. Recently, some new Hokusai books we...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

Oil Spill !!!

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NRC dweebes are getting ready to tow a boom out to the oil spill to contain it. We're having our annual oil spill here in SF bay. Routi...

Reality vs. Fantasy

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to the right, Daniel Everett, the author of Don't Sleep .. or at least his head and its reflection. We cannot be sure if there is more...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Wooden hunting hats at Unangax^ Culture Camp

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Patty Gregory Of Unalaska taught wooden hat making at Unangax^ (Aleut) Culture Camp. People were making two kinds of hats, the open crowned ...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Culture camp how to butcher a seal demo

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One of the features of Culture Camp was the preparation of traditional Unangan foods, in this case, a harbor seal. Sally Swetsoff demonstra...
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Unangam tunuu

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Unangam tunuu is the Aleut name for the Aleut language. According to the Alaskan native institute in Fairbanks there are something like 200...

APIA Culture Camp

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I recently got back from the apia culture camp held in Anchorage Alaska. APIA stands for Aleut Pribilof Islands Association. The APIA is an ...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

wood, the original carbon fiber composite

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Whenever people see me working on a boat with a wooden frame, invariably, somebody comes along and wants to know if the same thing couldn...
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Other Blogs

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If you're a native watercraft junkie like me, check out the Indigenous Boats blog by Bob Holtzman. Lots of good stuff there and Bob has...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Culture Camps

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The Aleut Community in Alaska holds culture camps every year to teach school age kids about their heritage. Various instructors teach diffe...

Cows in Akutan

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Somewhere on my webpage I put some pictures of what I call hot spring valley in Akutan, an island in the Aleutians. The Aleutians, you will ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Links, links & more links

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There's lots of good stuff about boats out there on the internet. And other web authors must surely have links to the relevant pages. B...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

pt. hope kayak skeg retrofit

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Last year I built a Point Hope kayak. Probably was used as some sort of retrieval kayak. Mostly, Pt. Hope hunters used umiaks to hunt, act...

baidarkolounger

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A year or so back, I built a King Island kayak and was amazed at how comfortable it was. Beam of the boat was 24 inches, depth at the rear ...
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secondary stability revisited

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The other day, I finally figured out what people mean when they talk of secondary stability. A little bit of background: Go the the intern...

ergonometrics in reverse

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Fellow kayaker, Duane Strosaker pointed out to me that I haven't posted since forever. So here goes, more postings. Today's topic i...
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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