Still life

From here:
http://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/culture/Chuuk_Canoe.html

GoPro and Endless Barrels...

Again, this may be a bit off topic.  But check out these endless barrels - that's sustainability! 

GoPro: Kilometer Barrels With Benji Brand - GoPro of the World June Winner
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2eE08eZUTw

"Published on Jul 26, 2014

Benji Brand scores endless barrels at Namibia's fabled Skeleton Bay and takes home $1000, a GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition, and a year subscription to Surfline"

And here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm7eT0MGt2Y

is GoPro: Endless Barrels - GoPro of the Winter 2013-14 powered by Surfline

Aren't GoPro cameras simply amazing!

The "New Tack" works...

Good results working with the "new tack" mock-up rig this weekend!  There's a new Page I've put up on it - A Working Crabclaw Sail:
http://starrigging.blogspot.com/p/a-working-cr.html

I'm happy enough now with this rig that I'd use it tomorrow if I could build a new boat!  That's all I can ask.  The ancients have already done it all for me!  All I ever needed was a way of short-handing the rig.  I'm ready to go sailing now!

Ku Holo Mau - the 2007 voyage to Satawal

From the Polynesian Voyaging Society site here:
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/holokai/2007/mau_5_satawal.html

Maisu off Satawal

Satawal landing

And from here, also from PVS, with photos by Sam Low:
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/holokai/2007/mau_6_pwo.html

Satawal

Satawal canoe house

Chief's house at night

For the story and photos of this voyage from Sam Low himself, go here:  Ku Holo Mau:
http://www.samlow.com/sail-nav/satawal2007.htm

Hokule'a's sails

Hokule'a

Nice pic of Hokule'a, found here:
http://www.hokulea.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PVS-Outreach-Magazine-web.pdf

And here:
http://www.hokulea.com/pvs-outreach-material/

Mau and Hokule'a

A nice depiction of Mau Piailug found at the Hokulea.com site:
http://www.hokulea.com/crew-blog-michelle-knoetgen-sailing-into-the-future-primal/

Students of the POW! WOW! School of Art/808 Urban painted a mural of Papa Mau Piailug in Kaka‘ako on O‘ahu to change the way people see their environment. Painting by Kamea Hadar, 808 Urban, Fitted; Image Courtesy of 808 Urban.

BTW, here is a good page on Mau from the Polynesian Voyaging Society:
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/index/founder_and_teachers/mau.html

Carving the hull

From the digital collection here:
http://digicoll.man oa.hawaii.edu/kiste/Pages/browseby.php?s=browse&tid=793&route=http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/kiste/Pages/viewtext.php?s=browse&tid=263&route=browseby.php&start=60&category=6&by=category&s=browse#.php&start=12&category=6&by=category

Note the long shafted daze for carving the interior

Smoothing the exterior

Not knowing much about their boatbuilding method, I`m a bit puzzled by the last two photos.

Sharp hull...

The phrase "knife edge" comes to mind...

'nough said

From the digital collection at:
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/kiste/Pages/viewtext.php?s=browse&tid=820&route=browseby.php&start=24&category=6&by=category&s=browse#

Evolution of Pacific Culture

Published on May 18, 2012

Video 06 of the Introduction to Ethnobotany series. Presented by Will McClatchey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uF99ww72Og

Kids learning to sail...

Just to echo an article posted yesterday at Sailing Anarchy - about kids and sailing...

Found here: http://sailinganarchy.com/2015/11/15/best-day-of-my-life/

An excerpt:  "Some call it “School Sailing.” Kids call it “the best day of my life!” Whatever you call it, it’s a fun-filled, action-packed, sailing extravaganza that gets every 5th grader out sailing on Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh, WI. Oh – and let’s not forget teaching science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through sailing, or using sailing to teach team-building and leadership skills to kids!"

The kids learn to sail, and things like using math and science while making their own sails.

That's cool.

Storm Tactics on Wharram Catamarans

Found this interesting article at the James Wharram Designs site.  Compiled by Don Brazier, Wharram agent for New Zealand, it's a collection of accounts by Wharram sailors who have experienced severe weather at sea.

Thank you, Don.  Go here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEIJgw30ag3t264j0c7qaq3joybcvRC3dscRzLrYNcQ/pub

Slightly off topic - but sustainable!

Not proas, but surfboards...  It fits one of my Labels - "pacific life".  And most importantly, it is wisdom of a kind.  After all, it was Don Redondo who said:

"Ya wanna know 'bout surfin', you surf.  Ya' don't surf, ya don't know nothin' 'bout surfin'."

Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VutqWDqEJmg&app=desktop

The Surfer's Way of Knowledge...