Indigenous Boats

This item just appeared on the WoodenBoat Facebook page, quoted here in full: " Adem Ali Yılmaz tells us that this is being built at...

The Argo in Istanbul. All images in this post are from The Jason Voyage by Tim Severin. Click any image to enlarge. In The Jason Voy...

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...

Since few of us read much academic literature, and even fewer read the literature of more than one field of interest, our views of the dista...