Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Aleut Cockpit Size

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Someone on one of the facebook groups I'm on posted a video of an Aleut paddler paddling his kayak around in a circle. The video is a co...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Scavenging

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Call it what you will.  Call it scavenging which has a negative connotation and calls up visions of vultures, or call it re-use or re-cyclin...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Ask not for Whom the Bell Tolls

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Some time back, a memorial appeared on the fence near Encinal boat ramp. The fence is on one side of the jetty that juts out into the bay. ...

Boat Salvage

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The saga of Tiller the Hun continues.  As you may remember, Tiller the Hun dragged its anchor in a winter storm, ran into the rocks and sank...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Mariner's Catalog

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Before there was an internet and the world wide web, there was the Mariner's Catalog. The Mariner's Catalog was something like a Who...

Aleut Paddle Orientation, Again

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I had previously seen this photo of Unangan (Aleut) paddlers in George Dyson's book, Baidarka.  But most recently for the first time, I ...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Double Baidarkas

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Sebastian Von Nagel recently finished  his latest double Baidarka,  ulux^tax^ in Unangam Tunuu. Some pictures follow.   Sebastian with thre...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

San Francisco Old and New

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When viewed from Alameda through binoculars, San Francisco appears to be made of two parts, an old part and a new part. The old part, visib...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

An Afternoon on the Estuary

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Saturday I spent some time on the Alameda-Oakland estuary.  It's a narrow body of water that separates Alameda from Oakland. The postca...