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Download Fishing Craft and Fisheries of Hong Kong by British Naval Intelligence
The Ku tsai teng, a Hong Kon junk used for purse sein fishing. Click the images for an expanded view. (Source: B.R. 1050B, p.25, figs. 20-21)Now available for free download is The Fishing Craft and...
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Free Download: British Naval Intelligence Guide to Watercraft of Burma,...
Leg-paddling a dugout canoe on Lake Inle, Burma (i.e., Myanmar) (source: Fishing and Trading Craft of Burma, Malaya and Siam, 1944, fig. 42).Toward the end of the Second World War, the Naval...
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Present Your Early Watercraft Findings at EWA-2
The second international congress on Early Watercraft (EWA-2) is seeking proposals for presentations. The conference will be held in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 6-8 November, 2026. The...
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Logboat Building in Estonia
Historic photo of a woman delivering milk to the local dairy in a haabjas. (Source).Logboats remained in common use in Estonia later than anywhere else in Europe. One of their last holdouts was in the...
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Expanding a Logboat While the Tree is Still Growing
An intriguing experiment is under way to investigate how Russians in the 19th century (and probably earlier) took steps to expand logboats while the tree was still growing. The project involves Jaan...
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Watercraft at Cambridge (UK) Anthropology Museum
Fans for watercraft ethnography would do well to visit Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Artefacts on display from many peoples reflect not only a variety of watercraft...
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Canoes as Agents of Migration in Guyana
I gave this presentation on the theme of migration on 25 September, 2024, as part of the observances of Amerindian Heritage Month in Guyana. The webinar was sponsored jointly by the University of...
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Fishing Sampans in Taiwan - free download
A Taiwanese fishing raft of bamboo construction (Han-po Liu, 1963, fig. 37).Fishing Sampans in Taiwan by Han-po Liu (1963), a wonderful little book published by the Taiwan Fisheries Bureau, is now...
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Worcester's "Floating Population in China" Now Online
A Hong Kong "beggar boat" -- a sampan that is home to a family (Worcester, 1970, p.5)Indigenous Boats is pleased to make available for free download The Floating Population in China by G.R.G....
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Book review: Classic Wooden Fishing Boats of the Vietnamese Coast
Classic Wooden Fishing Boats of the Vietnamese Coast: Their Design, Construction, Rigging and Fisheriesby Ken Preston2019328 pagesVietnam Women’s Publishing House, Ha NoiISBN 978-604-56-7858-9 When Ken...
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Download Worcester's Crooked Junks, Free
A crooked-stern salt junk of Fowchow, from Worcester, G. (1941) Notes on the Crooked-bow and Crooked-stern Junks of Szechwan, following p.36.Among the most unusual Chinese watercraft are those...
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Classification of Junks by Worcester - Free Download
Bow typology of Chinese junks, from A Classification of the Principal Chinese Sea-going Junks by Worcester (1948).Continuing our series of free downloads of books about Asian watercraft, we are pleased...
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Worcester's Upper Yangtze vessels - Free download
A river lifeboat, from Junks and Sampans of the Upper Yangtze (1940), by G.R.G. Worcester (Plate 9).Junks and Sampans of the Upper Yangtze by G.R.G. Worcester (1940, published by the Inspector General...
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The Warrau Canoe and the Construction of Landscape
In October, I gave a presentation titled The Warrau Canoe and the Construction of Landscape at the first Early Watercraft Congress in Vila do Conde, Portugal. The presentation was derived from my PhD...
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Poujade's and Piétri's books on traditional Vietnamese boats: free dowloads
Blocks and pulleys onVietnamese sailboats. From Sailboats of Indochina (Voiliers d'Indochine) by J. B. Piétri. Thanks to a contributor who wishes to remain anonymous, I'm delighted to present two more...
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Download Volume 2 of Worcester's Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze
Miao-Ch'uan boat, from Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze, Vol. 2, G.R.G. WorcesterNow available for free download is Volume 2 of G.R.G. Worcester's huge and detailed work, Junks and Sampans of the...
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Download G.R.G. Worcester's "Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze, Vol. 1"
A skiff propelled by a yulow, or stern sculling oar. From Worcester, G.R.G., The Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze, Vol.1 (1947).Now available for free download is G.R.G.Worcester's monumental study The...
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Download Farrère and Fouqueray's Rare "Jonques et Sampans" Free
"Le Port de Saigon", from Jonques et Sampans, p.28 (of PDF) Now available for free download is Jonques et Sampans by Claude Farrère and Charles Fouqueray. The valuable, hand-painted limited edition...
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Coastal Vessels of Thailand - Free Book Download
Now available for free download is the Green Book of Coastal Vessels of Thailand, published in 1967 by a joint Thai-U.S. military research group as an identification guide and instruction manual for...
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Download Audemard's "History of the Junk" Free
A Chinese ship shaped like a dragon. From L. Audemard, Les Jonques Chinoises, vol. 1, plate 29. And the first shall be last.Now available for free download is the first volume of L. Audemard's...
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