Goan Sewn Outrigger Canoes

Reader Paul Wilson sent us nice photos of some outrigger canoes from Goa, on India's west coast. (See earlier posts for Paul's photo...

Vote to Support Canoe Building Project for At-Risk Ojibway Youth

Here's a project worth supporting, and it'll cost you nothing but your vote: Anishinaabe Babamadizwin: A Journey By Canoe  will work...

Burmese Long-Tails

In our last post we looked at Paul Wilson's photos of Philippine bancas . This time we'll view Paul's images of longboats from M...

Bancas on Corregidor

Reader Paul Wilson sent me a bunch of wonderful photos of boats from various parts of Asia which we'll looking at in this and the next s...

The Moken Kabang

The Moken are an Austronesian people pursuing a nomadic maritime culture in the Andaman Sea. These "Sea Gypsies" live in the Mergu...

Bow and Stern Shapes of Dugout Canoes

In 2000, a drought in Florida caused the water level to drop on Newnans Lake, near Gainesville, leading to the discovery of remnants of more...

Carving Dugouts as Cultural Education

We're written before about Voyages of Rediscovery , an educational organization that builds and uses canoes "as a medium for educa...