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Aaaaannnnd while we’re at it, Tim Severin’s “The Jason Voyage”

Tim Shaw — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:01:05 +0000

I also read, in recent times, Tim Severin‘s “The Jason Voyage”, his attempt at following the mythical story of Jason and the Argonauts. He had a Bronze Age Aegean galley built using archeological evidence and historical texts. This was the real deal – it would have banks of rowers toiling away and the characteristic “ram” [...] Related posts:

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Catching up on readings past – Tim Severin’s “The Sinbad Voyage”

Tim Shaw — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:36:07 +0000

I have had some time to sift through the back catalog here at Chine bLog headquarters and noted that I never covered a few key books I read in the last couple years. In particular, after knocking off Tim Severin‘s The China Voyage and then his The Brendan Voyage, I moved on to his some [...] Related posts:

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Memories Dept. – the check that kicked off my boatbuilding

Tim Shaw — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:49:18 +0000

One more on checks I turned up during our clean-out. Here is the check I wrote to the late Harold “Dynamite” Payson for the building manual for my first boat, the Gloucester Light Dory. Pretty momentous purchase right there.

If anyone is looking to build this great boat, Payson’s book is invaluable. Just get [...] Related posts:

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My wooden boat cred’ – I got proof!

Tim Shaw — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:11:22 +0000

In case anyone thinks I am some kind of wooden boat poseur… I was recently cleaning stuff out and came across a bunch of old checks, including some of the first I ever wrote. Inclued was this one, from 1985: my first subscription to WoodenBoat. Keepin’ it real…

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Pacific Voyagers keep on voyaging, thank goodness!

Tim Shaw — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:19:00 +0000

Coming across the “wires” a couple months ago was news from the Dana Point (CA) Times that crews of Polynesians are still sailing traditional vakas – voyaging canoes – across the Pacfic using traditonal techniques. This was particularly interesting to me as a recently read Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors: Reviving Polynesian Voyaging [...] Related posts:

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‘Far From Perfect’: Authenticity at the Wooden Boat Festival (via Crosscut.com)

Tim Shaw — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:41:21 +0000

We recently stumbled across a lovely piece from the Seattle media site crosscut.com about authenticity. It stems form the author’s reflections exhibiting his self-built boats at the Port Townsend (WA) Wooden Boat Festival. He reflects on that tension we all, in the classic / traditional boat world, feel between the desire to have a boat [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Ideas welcome – beginning the redesign / rebuild of AL DEMANY CHIMAN’s ama

Tim Shaw — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:21:37 +0000

As I have noted before, one of the biggest issues I have found with the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe AL DEMANY CHIMAN is that the ama isn’t working out. The shape is a bit off and it ships too much water. Having completed a number of smaller maintenance items since calling an end to the season, [...] Related posts:

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A new fusion of tradition design sketch – “Friendship Slumiak”

Tim Shaw — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:47:56 +0000

I had a couple management meetings this week that provided for doodling space. I have been thinking about a larger skin-on-frame craft ad that led me to umiaks. The name then came to me and so a boat needed to come of it: an umiak-construction hull with lines and rig evoking that classiest of [...] Related posts:

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Douglas Brooks’s effort to save traditional Japanese boatbuilding

Tim Shaw — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:10:00 +0000

For some tie I have known of Douglas Brooks, a Vermont boatbuilder who became fascinated with traditional Japanese boats several years ago and has since traveled there a few times to study and document traditional boats and construction methods. There was a nice piece about him recently in the Japan Times Online that focused [...] Related posts:

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Nice piece on boatbuilding helping troubled youth

Tim Shaw — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:45:51 +0000

I came across this piece in the Stamford Advocate on the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory’s Boat, Build and Sail program. An excerpt:

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A celebration of a boating season

Tim Shaw — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:12:00 +0000

On Sunday afternoon I took AL DEMANY CHIMAN out for probably the last time this season. It was a stunning Fall day and there were only a few other folks out with me on the Patuxent River. There were some birds about and a couple fish jumping, but, for the most part, things were quiet [...] Related posts:

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Sailing rig details for the skin-on-frame outrigger canoe AL DEMANY CHIMAN

Tim Shaw — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:22:45 +0000

As I work away on refinements to the sailing rig for my skin-on-frame outrigger sailing canoe AL DEMANY CHIMAN, I wanted to show off a few more details of the rig as it is. I posted a variant of this view before, but I think this is a better picture. It gives a sense [...] Related posts:

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Final story from the 2011 Mid-Atantic Small Craft Festival – John Harris in the cocktail class racer

Tim Shaw — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:47:39 +0000

Toward the end of the day Saturday, I happened to be on hand when John Harris, father of Chesapeake Light Craft, took a spin in one of the two cocktail class racers that were about. For those who don’t know, these boats are 8′ plywood outboard boats that barely hold a single man. They go [...] Related posts:

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2011 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival – the complete pictures

Tim Shaw — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:59:51 +0000

I wanted to get these pictures of the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival up right away; I’ll be adding captions soon.

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Races at Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival

Tim Shaw — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:57:00 +0000

For those scoring at home, your 2011 Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival sailing race winner was a Sunfish. A non-traditional, plastic boat – kinda violates my sensibilities. But well done.

I am eager to get going with the paddling race as it is COLD here in St. Michael’s, MD.

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Replica Capt. John Smith shallop

Tim Shaw — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:50:17 +0000

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Rushton rowing boat, anyone?

Tim Shaw — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:49:43 +0000

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Lovely sprit cat ketch

Tim Shaw — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:04:00 +0000

This is why we love the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival.

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Skin-on-frame outrigger canoe AL DEMANY CHIMAN fully rigged

Tim Shaw — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:59:27 +0000

She’s all ready for show…

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Getting ready for the day at Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival

Tim Shaw — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:09:51 +0000

It’s a chilly, breezy day here, but a kayak with amas and a bat-wing sail is out on the water and a few other folks and getting their boats ready. Getting ready to do a serious tour.

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