Harvey Golden's Magnificent Kayak Surveys

  My usual approach to using reading material for this blog is to take some interesting (to me) facts that I read concerning some kind of bo...

Two Indigenous North American Boats in Maine Museums

A couple of trips to small museums in Maine yielded two nice boats: a bark canoe and a skin-of-frame kayak. It's almost like a snapshot ...

Diversity of British Isles Coracles:

It's often said that the great diversity of small craft is a result of the extremely various uses required of boats and the extremely va...

The Donegal Paddling Curragh

The Donegal paddling curragh -- also known as the  Owey Island, and Rosses paddling curragh --  is one of the odder indigenous boat survival...

Nice Nicaragua Dugout and a Few North American Canoes

Yesterday I received training in first aid and CPR at Three Rivers Whitewater in The Forks, Maine. (The town is named for the confluence of...

Lockley's Curragh

(click any image to enlarge) A skilled naturalist and prolific writer, R.M. Lockley  (1903-2000) wrote more than 50 books, many of them abou...