Japanese Boats of the Edo Period

On a recent visit to the new Harvard Art Museum, I came across two lovely 6-panel painted folding screens from Japan's Edo period (also ...

Sampan Dwellers of Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam

A sampan from the Hue area, probably much like those discussed here. Source: Junk Blue Book *. (Click any image to enlarge) The romanticizat...

The Baure's Linked Canoe and Road Transport System

Contemporary Baure dugout canoes on the upper Amazon in Bolivia. (Click any image to enlarge.)  Source . The Baure people live between the S...

Two Current Bits of Nautical Archaeology

Swedish warship Mars A couple of quick marine achaeology links: Recent news about the discovery of the remarkably intact 16th-century three-...

Irish Logboat Finds

An article in the current issue of  Current Archaeology  tells of multiple logboat finds in Lough Corrib, County Galway, Ireland. I haven...

The Australian Overlapping-Triangle Raft

Reader Geoff Cater steered me toward his fine summary page of indigenous Australian watercraft where, along with excellent images of variou...

"Whaleback" Chinese Junks

A  sha-ch'uan or sand boat. The big basket tied to the house side is not a dinghy: it's a sea anchor. Illustration by Valentin A. S...