Indigenous Boats

There are strong but superficial similarities between  The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia , a new book by Harri Luukkanen an...

  My usual approach to using reading material for this blog is to take some interesting (to me) facts that I read concerning some kind ...

A couple of trips to small museums in Maine yielded two nice boats: a bark canoe and a skin-of-frame kayak. It's almost like a snapshot...

It's often said that the great diversity of small craft is a result of the extremely various uses required of boats and the extremely v...

The Donegal paddling curragh -- also known as the  Owey Island, and Rosses paddling curragh --  is one of the odder indigenous boat survi...

Yesterday I received training in first aid and CPR at Three Rivers Whitewater in The Forks, Maine. (The town is named for the confluence o...