Indigenous Boats

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

Bow typology of Chinese junks, from A Classification of the Principal Chinese Sea-going Junks by Worcester (1948). Continuing our series of...

  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...

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 ...

A Chinese ship shaped like a dragon. From L. Audemard,  Les Jonques Chinoises, vol. 1, plate 29.   And the first shall be last. Now availabl...

Vietnamese "three plank canoe" (i.e., sampan) of stitched construction, used in shallow and rocky tributaries of the Mekong River....

A duck hatchery boat. From Audemard, L., Les Jonques Chinoises , Vol. 6, Plate 76. See main text for further desription. Three more volumes ...

Crooked stern junk on the Yangtse River. Plate 30 from  Les Jonques Chinoises, Vol. 5, Haut Yang Tse Kiang, by L. Audemard, 1963 Now availab...

Decorative motifs on Chinese junks. From Les Jonques Chinoises, Vol. 3: Ornementation et Types by L. Audemard. Plate 60. Now available for ...

"Construction d'une jonque, Haute Yang tse", from  Les Jonques Chinoises, Vol. 2: Construction de la Jonque   by  L. Audemard ...

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...