Sunday, December 18, 2011

Inupiat Plant Food

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When someone mentions Eskimos or Inuit or people of the Arctic, the stereotype that most often comes to mind is snow houses and people in fu...
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Aleut/Unangam Masks

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Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to visit the town of Sand Point on Popov Island in the Shumagin Island group. The Shumagin Islands ...

Food Gathering, a Communal Affair

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One of the things I realized in writing about wild foods is that someone lost in any kind of wilderness whether it be arctic, woodlands or d...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Long Boats in Surf

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Human powered displacement boats should be long and narrow for maximum efficiency. However, when you try to paddle one of these boats in sur...

Boats and Oxen

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This post is dedicated to the use of oxen on and around boats.  I am not suggesting that people with boats should go out and get a team of o...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Indian Wild Food How To Books

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This current post was inspired by my own earlier desert survival posts.  What I realized in the process of writing was that living in a part...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Wild Food, Does the Bear Eat in the Desert

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I was going to call this post desert survival, part 2, food, but changed my mind.  The chances that someone would need to find food in the d...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Water in the desert

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I've been out of town for over a month and am now getting back in the swing of things.  Time to spin up the boating fly wheel again and ...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Playboat Camera Angles

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As usual, when students build new boats I try to take some pictures.  Once again, I am reminded that taking good pictures is work.  The prob...
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Baidarka-Iqyax^ Interior

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Inside of the baidarka, newly built with the sun coming through the skin.  Sure is pretty.

Play boat demo

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It was launch day, Mandy and Andre launched their latest creations.  Foreground, Andre turning his playboat on a dime. Beautiful day.  Summ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Low Entropy Boat Building

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Entropy has generally had a lot of bad press.  Entropy is seen as something undesirable, as a general increase of disorder in the universe. ...
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Why Aleuts don't build kayaks any more

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Aleuts build kayaks up to about WWII and maybe a little after.  Today, the practice of building kayaks in the Aleutians has stopped.  There...

What is possible, contd.

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On our last day in Sand Point, we found some dry suits airing out on the railing of the motel we were staying at, the Anchor Inn. At first w...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

What is possible?

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The current boat I am working on is yet another iteration of what I like to think of as my version of the perfect bay boat, bay kayak, that ...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Polynesian Boats in SF Bay

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 There's a bunch of Polynesian boats that have just showed up in SF Bay this past week.  I went to visit them yesterday and here'...