Indigenous Boats

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

Once again, friend and fellow jangada fan Silvio Antunha has steered me to some great material about jangadas, the Brazilian sailing raft wh...

Here's a video (a slide show, really) with lots of good images of the Brazilian fishing craft known as a jangada . The soundtrack is a...

Welsh Coracle (photo National Maritime Museum Cornwall) Wish I'd known about this place the one time I had the pleasure of visiting the ...

In case anyone missed new comments by Jangada fan Paul Lima to an earlier post on these Brazilian raft-boats: Paul has provided a link to th...

Just came across this nice BIG photo of a jangada, on a Microsoft clipart site, no less. (Click the photo for really good detail.) I've ...

Photo: Paul Lima Paul Lima, president of a nonprofit organization called The Endangered Coast, has posted a comment on my earlier post con...

Do check out the April 1 post on jangadas at http://rowingforpleasure.blogspot.com/ . Nice photos, and very nice Brazilian music with more ...

In my last post, I said I'd discuss the jangada in the next post. Here we are at the next post, but first, some news. My employment as...

This is the first post from my new computer. I had to give up my nice Dell Latitude yesterday because my employment with McGraw-Hill runs ou...