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...

Traveling the World to Build Canoes

I envy Will Meadows. Will is a senior at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI), and with a $25,000 grant from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, ...

More on Mtepes

If yesterday's post on the Kenyan sewn vessel the mtepe wasn't long enough, here's a bit more, gleaned from a source brought to...

The Mtepes of Kenya

A dau al mtepe (source unclear). Click any image to enlarge. Among the indigenous boats that disappeared in the 20th century was the mtepe,...

Updates on Old and Ancient Canoes

A couple years ago , I noted briefly the discovery of a 230-year-old Canadian birchbark canoe, believed to be the oldest surviving example, ...

Shooting Rapids in a Big Dugout

In 1926, during a national craze for daredevil stunts, Al Faussett built a 32-foot spruce dugout canoe and successfully piloted (or perhaps ...

China's Quanzhou Ship Full of Surprises

Reconstruction of the Quanzhou ship. Note bulkheads, stern rudder that can be raised with a windlass, and V-shaped hull. Click any image for...