Indigenous Boats

The Ku tsai teng, a Hong Kon junk used for purse sein fishing. Click the images for an expanded view. (Source: B.R. 1050B, p.25, figs. 20-21...

A Taiwanese fishing raft of bamboo construction (Han-po Liu, 1963, fig. 37). Fishing Sampans in Taiwan by Han-po Liu (1963), a wonderful li...

A Hong Kong "beggar boat" -- a sampan that is home to a family (Worcester, 1970, p.5) Indigenous Boats is pleased to make availab...

A crooked-stern salt junk of Fowchow, from Worcester, G. (1941)  Notes on the Crooked-bow and Crooked-stern Junks of Szechwan, following p.3...

  A river lifeboat, from Junks and Sampans of the Upper Yangtze (1940), by G.R.G. Worcester (Plate 9). Junks and Sampans of the Upper Yangtz...

Blocks and pulleys on Vietnamese sailboats. From Sailboats of Indochina   ( Voiliers d'Indochine )  by J. B. Pi é tri.   Thanks to a con...

Miao-Ch'uan boat, from  Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze, Vol. 2, G.R.G. Worcester Now available for free download is Volume 2 of G.R.G...

A skiff propelled by a yulow, or stern sculling oar. From Worcester, G.R.G., The Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze, Vol.1 (1947). Now availa...

"Le Port de Saigon", from Jonques et Sampans , p.28 (of PDF)   Now available for free download is  Jonques et Sampans  by  Claude ...

Now available for free download is the Green Book of Coastal Vessels of Thailand , published in 1967 by a joint Thai-U.S. military research ...

In a current temporary exhibit at the Vatican Museums, dozens of models of watercraft from numerous nations and cultures are presented to r...

In this post we look at the remainder of Buckminster Fuller's model boat collection that was recently donated to Penobscot Marine Museu...