Indigenous Boats

I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Doug Brooks at Carpenter's Boat Shop in Pemaquid, Maine, last month. Doug is a highly accompli...

(image from Clifford Hawkins; The Dhow . Click to enlarge.) Tacking a dhow, with its huge and heavy settee spar, is apparently not as diffi...

A birch bark canoe of Penobscot Indian design has been built by a team led by Steve Cayard on the grounds of the Penobscot Marine Museum, S...