Vatican boat model exhibit, Part 2

In a current temporary exhibit at the Vatican Museums, dozens of models of watercraft from numerous nations and cultures are presented to re...

Buckminster Fuller's Model Boat Collection, Part 2

In this post we look at the remainder of Buckminster Fuller's model boat collection that was recently donated to Penobscot Marine Museum...

Chinese Bamboo Rafts Redux

Continuing yesterday's discussion on the bamboo rafts of China... Model of a Taiwanese bamboo raft. These were up to 35 feet LOA by 10 f...

Tim Severin's Bamboo Raft

Like his earlier book  The Brendan Voyage , which we have discussed previously , Tim Severin's The China Voyage: Across the Pacific by B...

Dugouts 8000 Years, 7000 Miles Apart

There's really no connection between these two stories, aside from the fact that they're both about dugouts. Chinese Dugout, 8000 BP...

Models in the Madrid Naval Museum, Part II

Here's a look at Chinese ship and boat models in  the  Museo Naval de Madrid . As in the previous post, about Philippine vessels in the ...