Indigenous Boats

After Ken Preston saw my previous post about Vietnamese basket boats , which included one of his photos from his website Boats and Rice , h...

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

Buckminster Fuller is normally associated with technological modernism, but it seems he had a penchant for preindustrial technology too. H...

" Coracle fishing boats at Mui Ne Bay , Vietnam " by  Ray Zhoul (Click any image to enlarge.) Vietnam is the only land where ...

In our last post we looked at Paul Wilson's photos of Philippine bancas . This time we'll view Paul's images of longboats from ...

The Moken are an Austronesian people pursuing a nomadic maritime culture in the Andaman Sea. These "Sea Gypsies" live in the Merg...