Buckminster Fuller's Model Boat Collection, Part 1

Buckminster Fuller is normally associated with technological modernism, but it seems he had a penchant for preindustrial technology too. His...

A Very Early Maori Canoe

A sizable component of a large canoe found in New Zealand gives clues to the type of boats used to settle the islands, which probably occurr...

Hōkūleʻa in Bar Harbor, Maine

Hokule'a off Oahu. (Photo: Polynesian Voyaging Society ) Hōkūleʻa   is a Hawaiian voyaging canoe in the midst of a multi-year voyage aro...

A Double Canoe from the Tuamotu Islands

In 1846, the British Admiralty dispatched HMS Grampus , 50 guns, under command of Capt. Henry Byam Martin, RN, to the Society Islands. The F...

Hawaiian Double Canoes

Two types of boats were prevalent in pre-European-contact Hawaii: the single-outrigger canoe and the twin-hull, or double, canoe. Outrigger ...