A sampan from the Hue area, probably much like those discussed here. Source: Junk Blue Book *. (Click any image to enlarge) The romanticizat...
Sampan Dwellers of Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam
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...
Best Resource for Indigenous Boats Ever!
The title of this post is hyperbole in only the slightest degree, for Admiral A. Bertrand Paris's work Essai sur la Construction Navale ...
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