Simple but efficient hulls

Here is a screenshot and a link to a post titled Mass Canoe building at Gary Dierking's excellent blog Outrigger Sailing Canoes.  It's about boat re-building in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda:

http://outriggersailingcanoes.blogspot.com/2014/03/mass-canoe-building.html
 

It's a worthy project and article - please read.  I post the photos here just to present the simple but efficient kind of hull that can be built in a "quick and dirty" fashion.  Resourceful, inexpensive, and working with materials on hand - all the way of sustainability and the way we must go, as I understand it.  We must work (gratefully) with what we've been given...

(The hull itself bears quite a resemblance my own old Voyager hull which, incidentally,  sailed to windward respectably on it's hard chine.)

Thanks, Gary!  For the info and for your excellent blog:  Outrigger Sailing Canoes
http://outriggersailingcanoes.blogspot.com/

Baltic Proa Conference 2015

Kudos to Janusz and friends!
 

Nice video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blQRCrwaZo

And assorted pics below -

 
Janusz has been at this a long time...   Congratulations!

Making rope in the Canoe House

Getty Images - National Geographic

Here: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/satawal-sailors-braid-a-sennit-rope-for-a-boats-rigging-news-photo/80169279

Bayou Nick

Built this awhile back with the grandkids.  All out of scrap wood.  Just an experiment to see if a hull could be built out of 1 sheet of plywood.  It carried me (150 pounds) both paddling and even sailing but of course, as I expected, performance was abysmal!  (To be expected with a waterline length of maybe 7' and tubby proportions.)

But it sure was fun to be on the water again - even if only in a "toy" boat.

Bayou Nick - as named by my grandsons Justin and Joshua

Another view

Not practical, but fun

Satawal

Puluwat lagoon

Blast from the past

Lithograph - Marshall Islands scene

Paafu: The Star Compass

As a adjunct to the post of a few days ago, here is the drawing of the star compass from Stephen Thomas's book, The Last Navigator.

"East is Not a Big Bird"

(This post needs some cleaning up....)

Ever since I began reading about Micronesian celestial navigation many years ago, I've read that the cardinal point, so to speak, was East, where the constellation Mailap, "the big bird" rises.  The sources cited below all basically asserted this.  But I just came across a piece published by these guys - Gary Holton, Calistus Hachibmai, Ali Haleyalur, Jerry Lipka, and Donald Rubinstein - which asserts otherwise.   

It's found here:
https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/oceanic_linguistics/v054/54.2.holton.pdf

I can't read it, nor can I excerpt from it here because it's published on one of these private scholarly sites which require a paid subscription.  But I did find a Powerpoint (?) presentation here and captured a bunch of screenshots.  This is all I can scrape together but I'd really like to read this thing...

The screenshots here -

Internet resources

Couple of internet resources here.  You may already be utilizing these, I may be "behind the curve".

Firstly,  I just learned how easy it is to search for similar images by simply opening a couple of windows side by side and then dragging and dropping an image you like into a Google Images searchbox.  See below.

 This will quickly and easily lead you to "similar" images.

Secondly, consider starting a Pinterest account.  There are a surprisingly lot of people "pinning" pictures of proas, boats, design, Pacific life, etc.  Watch out, though - browsing here can be addictive...

Ghosting

After coming across an old photo of Voyager and fiddling with the color, I couldn't resist posting it.  Still had the old tacking rig at the time - hadn't yet discover the brilliance of the proa rig!

Ghosting on a foggy morning on Lake Long

Stamps and Scenes

Nauru

Yap

Pohnpei

Kosrae