Different Coats for Different Boats

The skins with which skin-on-frame boats are covered differ considerably from place to place, and even from boat type to boat type within a ...

"New" Bronze Age Dugouts Uncovered

According to this article on BBC News, an important Bronze Age archaeological site is being excavated at a  quarry in  Whittlesey, England....

Junks, Sampans by the Hundreds

Aberdeen Harbor, Hong Kong, 1973 Just learned of this site , featuring hundreds and hundreds of photos of junks and sampans in Hong Kong, Ma...

A Bevy of Brazilian Boats

Brazilian Boats & Canoes is a great blog, featuring articles on (currently) more than 30 different boat types in use throughout Brazil....

Carving a Pirogue in Louisiana

Here's a lovely film , ca. 1949, showing the construction of a traditional Louisiana dugout pirogue. The 14 minute film was shot in 35mm...

Carving a Siberian Dugout

Here's a nice video showing two men carving a dugout canoe from a trunk of Siberian aspen. It's not in English, but among the points...

An Abandoned Planking Method

It may seem out of place to examine the shipbuilding methods of the ancient Greeks and Romans in a blog whose subtitle is "small craft ...