Journalist and writer Gavin Atkin’s weblog about boats, boatbuilding and restoration
Jan10
Traditionally-built 26ft North American birch bark canoe
I was very struck by this super post over at Duckworks explaining how Adam Wicks-Arshack became apprenticed to a birch bark canoe builder. He learned his skills building this impressive 26-footer.
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Alya Jan 27th 2009 at 05:18 am 1
I work with birch bark (beresta) all my life but i even can’t imagine that something like a ship can be made of the one!