Indigenous Boats

In our previous post, we looked at details of outrigger design and construction in the Filipino outrigger boats known as bangkas . Here we...

The bangka -- also known as banca and  paraw -- is a double-outrigger boat  ubiquitous in the Philippines. According to one online dictiona...

Let's look at some more maritime-related objects from several Pacific cultures on display at  Harvard University's   Peabody Muse...

Beautiful curves on the sheer and outrigger booms on this Philippine banca. The booms are carefully chosen for their curves from the...

Reader Paul Wilson sent me a bunch of wonderful photos of boats from various parts of Asia which we'll looking at in this and the next ...

If you get tired of fine art at Madrid's incredible Prado museum, a nice break is the Museo Naval de Madrid , almost next door. Run by ...

I shouldn't be blogging this weekend: I should be on a week-long canoe trip on the West Branch of the Penobscot River. But a bad back fo...