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I don't get out of the water nearly enough: maybe one trip per year, ranging from an overnighter to a weeklong on one of Maine's busier rivers (Allagash, St. Croix, etc.). Want more!
But while the experience is modest, I know a fair amount about canoeing through wide reading and research. My blog, Indigenous Boats, examines any aspect of boat design, building or use that catches my interest, as long as it's outside of the Euro-American plank-on-frame tradition: bark and dugout canoes, kayaks, umiaks, rafts, coracles, reed boats, sampans, dhows, jangadas.... I'm searching for all the info. on dugout canoes I can find: please send me links to obscure academic papers, archival photos, first-person accounts, etc.
I've built a few small craft, and I have a solo freestyle stripper canoe under construction (for, oh, let's say 3 years or so). I'm a real butcher with tools, but I admire and appreciate those who know how to use them: a well-built boat is one of the most beautiful things I can think of.
But while the experience is modest, I know a fair amount about canoeing through wide reading and research. My blog, Indigenous Boats, examines any aspect of boat design, building or use that catches my interest, as long as it's outside of the Euro-American plank-on-frame tradition: bark and dugout canoes, kayaks, umiaks, rafts, coracles, reed boats, sampans, dhows, jangadas.... I'm searching for all the info. on dugout canoes I can find: please send me links to obscure academic papers, archival photos, first-person accounts, etc.
I've built a few small craft, and I have a solo freestyle stripper canoe under construction (for, oh, let's say 3 years or so). I'm a real butcher with tools, but I admire and appreciate those who know how to use them: a well-built boat is one of the most beautiful things I can think of.