A charming 1930s film made at Stoney Lake, Ontario showing improbable things being done with a Canadian canoe. My thanks to Bob Holtzman for spotting this one…
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Some photos from the Beale Park Boat Show
Today, entrants for the Water Craft magazine boat building competition. The first time I photographed the entries for that competition must be 15 or 16 years ago, and I wonder where those photos might be…
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Dugout canoe building in Finland, 1936
This is quite something: the log is dug out and the exterior shape cut, then the log is opened out and framed, and then a sheer strake is added.
This is ancient history in action – and arguably marks the change in direction in boat evolution that eventually led to the very earliest beginnings of clinker construction.