Monday, July 19, 2010

How did the Aleuts hold their paddles?

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Did I already address this issue once before? Maybe. Well, I'm addressing it once again. The question is, did Aleuts hold their paddles...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

dead man's boat returns to water

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Steve Fossett, adventurer A year or two back, this big white catamaran showed up in the seaplane lagoon at the former Alameda Naval Air stat...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

King Islander

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Ken Mannshardt has been building a King Island inspired kayak at my shop. Then the frame was complete, we took some pictures. See below. T...

Frilled Lizard Boat

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Steve Kaspar gave me an old sail he had made along the lines of a George Dyson sail as featured in his book, Baidarka. I stuck it on the sa...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

A Book Review

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I never liked writing book reviews. If a book is stupid, what can you possibly say that would help someone other than, the book is stupid. ...

The bloggerator

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You might naively think that the bloggerator is the person who blogs. Not so. I think of the bloggerator as more of an engine, a process i...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Whence the Kayak?

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For over a week now, I've been on this detour from working on my book where I've tried to figure out where kayaks came from. The or...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Aleut Prehistory

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Prehistory is the time before written records. For the Aleuts that would be the time before the Russians appeared in the middle of the 18th...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Louis Choris and the Uncertainty of the Past

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Over the course of the past few weeks, I have been taking artists' drawings of baidarkas and put them in chronological order to get some...

Wind-powered baidarkalounger

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I don't know how much I already revealed about the baidarkalounger project, but here's a recap and update on recent developments. Re...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Giving Credit

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model of three-hole baidarka by Sergie Sovoroff at the Alaska State Museum Mike Livingston, Unangan (Aleut) boat builder has been working on...
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...