Canoe and Canoe House

Bikinian boats

Bikinian boats in 1946

Various canoes

Paddling canoe off Satawal

Larger canoe anchored

Start 'em young

Marshallese canoe

Bikinian boats in 1946

Boat building

Fitting a plank -

From video the video,  FSM - Yap - Glimpses of Lamotrek Atoll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LPeQMFeU0&t=195s

Beauty on the beach

Found here:
http://proafile.com/multihull-boats/discussion-forum/viewthread/298/P30/

Historic proas

Some good historic photos here:

http://www.multihull.de/proa/history/p_history.htm

"Historische Proas - Ancient Outriggers"

Plenty of photos here.  I only picked these two because the sharpness of the hulls caught my eye.  Plenty of lateral resistance, eh?

Planing by proa...

I happened to be reading an article at Wikipedia about the venerable Sunfish and it mentioned that the design was one of the earliest production planing hulls (under sail).  So I followed the link to planing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planing_(boat)

Was delighted to read, "The earliest documented planing sailboat was a proa built in 1898 by Commodore Ralph Munroe; it was capable of speeds of more than twice the hull speed. "

(The Commodore's boat had a flat bottom.)

In case you've never read about his boat here's an small excerpt and the link -

"With the growing wind on the quarter, outrigger in air and spray flying, they were traveling at a very high speed for a small boat. Then suddenly, with a little extra puff, the fore part of the boat lifted under them and, skimming the surface like a skipping stone, leaped into a surprising burst of speed. The sea beneath swept by like a cataract, vague and foam-streaked, the tugging steering oar cut a clear open cleft in the water and threw up on either side a long rainbow of spray, while the boat itself rested so lightly on the water that she made little, if any, disturbance in her flight. They stole hurried, ecstatic glances at each other. How fast were they going? What sort of creature was this proa? And what on earth was she doing?"

- from The Cheap Pages - http://www.thecheappages.com/proa/commodore.html#1900

  

On the subject of planing hulls - IMHO, while there's no denying that the deep-V'd native hulls are the most beautiful and offer the bonus of great lateral resistance for windward work, there's one advantage that a flat-bottomed hull will have and that is the ability to plane.  

Any finely proportioned hull, i.e. with a high length-to-beam ratio, will be able to go faster and faster as the driving power increases and there is no "hull speed barrier" so to speak, which must be overcome.  But while the knive-edged V hull keeps slicing through the water, a flat-bottomed hull will climb on top of the water and really go at that point.  It's a lot of fun!

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!

Still life

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

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#

Juxtaposition of old and new...

Found at Tropical Boats' Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/TropicalBoats/photos/a.360523200646216.88773.350169078348295/700802369951629/?type=3&theater

Homepage:  https://www.facebook.com/TropicalBoats

Waan Aelon in Majel - Canoes of the Marshall Islands

Waan Aelon in Majel

~ Canoes of the Marshall Islands ~

If any of you are not yet familiar with this awesome site and organization, please check it out.  It is a delight and a wonderful undertaking!

Go here:
http://www.canoesmarshallislands.com/

The WAM logo

Modern outrigger canoes racing

Visitors center

From the intro to their Mission Statement:

"Waan Aelõñ in Majel (WAM) is committed to empowering the young men and women of the Marshall Islands, endowing them with the skillset essential to bring them into the global society in which we find ourselves today.

WAM uses traditional Marshallese skills for men and women as a medium to transfer needed life skills and capacity building to the youth of the Marshall Islands.

The WAM program promotes sustainable economic and cultural development, national unity and self-identity..."

And their Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/wam.rmi/

Walap of the Marshalls

A nice sketch of a model walap from Canoes of Oceania, Haddon & Hornell.

 

An oddly similar view of a real vessel found here:  http://www.realmagick.com/proa-history-of-the-proa/

More historical pics

From the Hawaiian & Pacific Images pages of the digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu site.

Found here:
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/pacific/Pages/browseby.php?s=browse&by=category&category=41

Dumont d'Urville?  Caroline Islands, circa 1835

same as above

Artist unknown, Caroline Islands canoes, circa 1819

Artist unknown, Caroline Islands, 1819

Some of Dame Jane Resture's sites

Her Micronesia Home Page:
http://www.janeresture.com/michome/index.htm

Micronesia Postcards and Photos:
http://www.janeresture.com/michome/postcards.htm

A canoe of the Carolines

A Kiribati canoe

A Yappese canoe at speed

Canoes of the Kiribati Islands

Check out this great piece on Kiribati canoe construction at Jane Resture's site:
http://www.janeresture.com/kiribati_canoe/history.htm

With the slightest of a breeze

And the greatest of ease

She skims over the shimmering blue

A most remarkable craft

From the fore to the aft

The incredible Kiribati canoe!

Like a frigate bird on a wing

The rigging and sails sing

A melodious song of the deep

About the spirits of the sea

And what has come to be

The incredible Kiribati canoe!

Poem by Dame Dr. Jane Resture