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dug out canoe
Terrible_Savage:
howdy yall, I grew up all over rural africa, i collected spears, bows and arrows. dugout canoes were always cool. inland like the swamps of zambia the canoes tend to be delicate looking, almost too thin without a re enforced brim but really long and wide, nice for a day fishing.
On the east coast in north mozambique the canoes were narrower and not as long but thicker and strongly re enforced brim. mine had a sail that was taller than the canoe was long and outriggers on both sides. it had a really sharp keel like a v with the bottom flattened out so when i took the outriggers off to see it tipped over under it's own weight.
It was about 14 ft i think, looking in my mind's eye, high nose for the waves and that is what I learned to sail on. I miss that life! I'll have some pics somewhere, if I find them I'll post one if yall like.
The fishermen would paint their boats sometimes but there was no oil or anything. I used one the seemed to have been parked on a white ant nest it had a lot of little fountains in the bottom. it was made from a mangrove tree and short. that one came from an island quite far and i'm not surprised it never went back to the island!
there was one kind of dugout that fascinated me. it was short, about +-6 ft i think. the shape was a lot like an airplane wing cross section. the nose widening fast, the one person two ft back, the remaining four or 5 ft tapered slowly up out of the water and rapidly became so small and light you could not sit farther back than that two ft from the front. you seldom saw them on the beach they were light enough to be carried back to the hut but you would frequently see them out of sight of land in the ocean waves. they would catch marlin, sailfish and tuna from those little hollow branches. using a builder's line with a hook they'd hook a fish with the line over a groove leading over the nose, hang on that line with it wrapped around a stick and lean back. thing about catching a fish longer than your boat is it takes a while to tire him! that's why you'd see them out at sea. i don't have a pic of that kind unfortunately. if yall have any questions ask and I'll try remember.
stickbender:
Cool! I don't think I would want to hook a marlin, while in a little five to six foot canoe, that tapered like that! I would be afraid the sharks would be all over the marlin and then all around the little canoe, and just one bump, and you're the hors d'oeuvre! :o
Some of the pictures of the Seminoles in their dug out canoes, were amazing. They would park their whole family, and dog in those things, and there would only be an inch or two of freeboard, and the Man standing in the back, poling. Not the kind of transportation I would want to be doing with 12 foot or more gators quite common back then. :o Definitely try to find pictures. 8) Thanks.
Wayne
iowabow:
i do ceramics and always need to know the thickness of a bowl so that I don't trim the bottom out. I do this calculation in the follow way, lay board across the sides measure to the bottom and record measurement. Then place another board under the boat make sure the distance is the same on both sides and record the measurement. Now the difference is the thickness
Sparrow:
Terrible savage. I would like to see that photo. Iowabow that is the way. Funny how simple can so easy be ignored by our otherwise razor sharp minds. (I think the last time my mind was "razor sharp" was in the early nineties) ' Frank
JackCrafty:
Very interested to see what happends with this... :)
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