Bundle Boats in Oman and Elsewhere

In the last week or so, two bundle boats from Oman came to my attention. First, a reader sent me a link to this travel article in Daily Kos ...

The Chumash and the Tomol

A tomol replica built in 1976. Source: Chumash Maritime Organization . (Click any image to enlarge.) The Chumash were a North American marit...

The Shasha - An Arabian Bundle Boat

"On Oman's Batinah coast fishermen still use the shasha , one of the oldest boats known to man, made of a bundle of palm fronds tie...