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At Lake Nipigon, Ontario, a First Nation boy carves a wooden model of an “Indian” in a canoe. On its side he roughly carves the words "Please put me back in the water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea" and sets it free to travel the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The story follows the progress of the little wooden canoe and paddler on their journey.
Historically, a caïque was a boat of 5–6 meters (16–20 ft) in length, and 1 meter (3 ft) in width, used mainly for transportation. It had a shape similar to that of a skate. Both ends of it were in such a form that it could be rowed in either direction with equal ease. The sides consisted of two long embellished boards.
A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat, about 5 to 7 metres or 16 to 23 feet long. It is usually a lightweight boat with high sides, a flat bottom and sharp bows. It is easy to build because of its simple lines. For centuries, the dory has been used as a traditional fishing boat, both in coastal waters and in the open sea.
By contrast, boats in Europe centred on framed and keeled monohulls. The Scandinavians were building innovative boats millennia ago, as shown by the many petroglyph images of Nordic Bronze Age boats. The oldest archaeological find of a wooden Nordic boat is the Hjortspring boat, built about 350 BC.
Vinta hulls are traditionally made from red lawaan wood; while the dowels, ribs, and sometimes parts of the outrigger are made from bakawan wood. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Detail of okil carvings on a vinta stern (c.1920) [ 1 ] Plan, midships section, and lines of a vinta (Doran, 1972) A small Moro vinta (tondaan) from the Philippines (c. 1905) showing the ...
In contrast, other sewn boats that use continuous sewing (as opposed to a series of individual stitches) have the thread go along the seam between two planks. [7] [8] A well-known early example of a sewn boat is the 40+ metres long "Solar barque" or funerary boat on show near the Gizeh pyramid in Egypt; it dates back from c. 2500 BC.
A qamutit carrying a kayak, dogs asleep in background. A qamutiik (Inuktitut: แแงแแ; [1] alternate spellings qamutik (single sledge runner), komatik, Greenlandic: qamutit [2]) is a traditional Inuit sled designed to travel on snow and ice.
The boats were typically widened beyond the original diameter of the log by spreading the sides after a steam-softening process. Spreading does more than widen the canoe; it also introduces major changes of form throughout the hull which the canoemaker must anticipate when carving the log.