Leather Stone-Age Boat Project
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Terrific trip report and thanks for posting. What is the provenance for a boat of this design with outrigger? All the engravings of boats on rocks in Scandinavia are of single-hulled craft as far as I remember. The earliest ones have straight stem and sterns.
Just brilliant! Looks an amazing experience.
What a great thread, TR and pics mate.
Thanks for posting.
What a great thread, TR and pics mate.
Thanks for posting.
Amazing,simply amazing.
Thank you and Fionn for sharing in all your adventures whilst you are away.
Thank you and Fionn for sharing in all your adventures whilst you are away.
What an incredible trip and write up! thanks for sharing. How are you getting on with the pair of sleeping bags I sold you?
Thank you for all the comments It has been quite an adventure! We move on to a different farm tomorrow, so who knows what awaits next
I am still returning to reality but to reply to two comments in particular
It is because most of the rock carvings show a very large crew or 20+ which is very difficult to get with a single hulled craft. Catamarans are still an ancient design, so we put 2 and 2 together
Couldn't be happier mate they have kept us nice and cosy
It has been quite an adventure! We move on to a different farm tomorrow, so who knows what awaits next I am still returning to reality but to reply to two comments in particular
Terrific trip report and thanks for posting. What is the provenance for a boat of this design with outrigger? All the engravings of boats on rocks in Scandinavia are of single-hulled craft as far as I remember. The earliest ones have straight stem and sterns.
It is because most of the rock carvings show a very large crew or 20+ which is very difficult to get with a single hulled craft. Catamarans are still an ancient design, so we put 2 and 2 together
Couldn't be happier mate they have kept us nice and cosy
Thanks for the reply and the reasoning for the outrigger. Not to labour the point but there has been a lot of discussion on whether the pictured ships on rocks were skin or wooden hulled and for me a plank-built is the more likely for the larger ones as single-hulls.
| For example: Antiquity Volume 54, number 211, page 118-127, Plank-built in the Bronze Age- JR Hale. |
cracking effort, looks stunning. I went to see the Brendan Voyage ship a number of years ago. really amazing craft
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2508/3885895860_50d0d571e5_z.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB2EsZhzVtE
Thank you for posting the how you did it pics. Helps those of us appreciate the effort.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2508/3885895860_50d0d571e5_z.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB2EsZhzVtE
Thank you for posting the how you did it pics. Helps those of us appreciate the effort.
A wonderful adventure, Hamish, and a cracking good report. Thank you for taking the time to show us.
I'll certainly not argue the point, but i think both are valid. I think back then, it would have come down to materials and craftsmanship. It is amazing just how easy it is to make a leather boat compared to a wooden hulled one. But because of the lack of much archaeological evidence this was an experimental build, mainly just to see if it could be done in the first place
Thats funny, I have found an article on skin boats in an old publication.
They mention rock carvings but I dont think there is any other evidence for such craft in Scandanavia.
The saami made sewn boats...But I think they were planks sewn togather like the old dhows.
I thought catermerans were a south seas thing?
(Id love to go out in a curragh, me and my affinity to the Age of Saints and all...)
They mention rock carvings but I dont think there is any other evidence for such craft in Scandanavia.
The saami made sewn boats...But I think they were planks sewn togather like the old dhows.
I thought catermerans were a south seas thing?
(Id love to go out in a curragh, me and my affinity to the Age of Saints and all...)
