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.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Indigenous Boats and the Indigenous Soul

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Bob Holtzman's Indigenous Boats blog deals with, you guessed it, indigenous boats. The purpose of this blog entry is to link the indig...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

David Zimmerly

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David Zimmerly was one of the early researchers in the field of kayaks and surveyed a whole bunch of them. His research is summarized in hi...
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Tim Anderson, Multihull Sailor

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I first met Tim Anderson a few years ago when I was out front working on a boat and he just happened to be driving by and stopped. Turns ou...

Old Town Canoe Restoration

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The canoe with the old skin before restoration. Turns out that Old Town actually covered this model with polyester to keep the weight down....
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Indigenous Boats

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Years ago, some friends and I started an organization called The Native Watercraft Society. Our intent was to research and document native ...
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Sandmarks

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I first met Mark Sanders at TAKS a few years ago. Mark not only has the camera gear but also knows how to use it. For some spiffy kayak ph...

Roll or Drown

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Roll or Drown is Duane Strosaker's website. See links at the right hand side of this blog for how to get to his site. Duane, in case y...
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Toxic Cleanup Part II

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While doing some research on the Aleutian Islands, I ran across this little tidbit on the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association site. Looks...

Unangam Tunuu - How to pronounce it

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If you're curious about how to pronounce Aleut words such as the ones you might find in Bergsland's article on Aleut kayak terms, cl...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Knut Bergsland and Aleut Kayak Terminology

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Knut Bergsland, Norwegian linguist contributed an article entitled "Aleut Kayak Terminology" (AKT) to a book called Contributions ...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

How's the toxic cleanup coming?

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Glad you asked. As everyone probably knows by now, former military bases are the equivalent of toxic waste disposal sites. The military, a...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Feeding Frenzy

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I don't have any photos of the feeding frenzy because as is usually the case, I don't have my camera with me when interesting stuff ...
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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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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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