Ancient (?) Dugout Canoe Found in Florida

AP photo . Click to enlarge. According to an AP article carried by Fox News (among others), a well-preserved dugout canoe was recently recov...

A Catamaran with an Outrigger?

A recent BBC story concerning a possibly  marine-related archaeological discovery in Wales  reports some off-the-wall speculation about the ...

Folding Kayaks and "Indigeneity"

Soon after posting the previous article about ocean voyages in folding kayaks , I began questioning its relevance to the larger subject of i...

Ocean Voyages in Folding Kayaks

Hannes Lindemann's 1956-57 solo transatlantic voyage in a folding kayak is justifiably famous among kayak fans. (In our previous post we...

Translatlantic Voyage in a Liberian Dugout Canoe

Hannes Lindemann in 2006, at the age of 84. He holds a copy of Life magazine, which featured him on the cover following his 1956-57 transatl...

More Tenmasens

My previous post, on the Japanese  tenmasen  workboat under construction by Douglas Brooks, failed to include any good photos of full-size ...

Japanese Tenmasen Under Construction

Model of a Japanese tenmasen workboat. All images courtesy Douglas Brooks (click any image to enlarge.) The Japanese tenmasen is, according...