Jun01
Priceless photos and descriptions of old sailing canoes
Priceless details and wonderful, if fuzzy, photos: Sailing Canoes: A Brief History
Also, check Tim Gittner’s jolly archive, which contains lots of lines from old-fashioned canoes, and quite a lot from Uffa Fox in his usual hale and hearty style. http://www.intcanoe.org/iclife/history.html
And finally, while we’re on this subject, Tim Shaw of the Chine Blog recently posted about a very lovely twin-masted sailing canoe:
A final sighting - for now - at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
For more on canoes and sailing canoes at intheboatshed.net:
http://intheboatshed.net/category/canoes/
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