Collection: Field Notes - Regenerative Materials | Series: Natural Ropes | The VAKA guide to choosing, preserving, using and inspecting natu…
VAKA is one person building boats from natural materials, testing what works, and documenting it honestly.
The builds. Skin on frame canoes, catamarans, proas — designed, built, tested,
The Plans. Once the boats are sea tested, the plans are finalised and posted.
The Field Notes. Extensive research into regenerative practices. This is a live project, with experiments and tests documented, everything from waterproof milk glue formulations to making and navigating with a kamal
Collection: Field Notes - Regenerative Materials | Series: Natural Ropes | Why the sequence and direction of worming, parcelling and servin…
Collection: Field Notes - Regenerative Materials | Series: Natural Ropes | What the construction of natural fibre rope actually determines a…
Collection: Field Notes - Regenerative Materials | Series: Natural Ropes | What quality actually means in natural rope, how to read it befor…
Collection: Field Notes - Regenerative Materials | Series: Natural Ropes | Learning to read natural fibre rope condition from the inside out…
Collection: Field Notes - Regenerative Materials | Series: Natural Ropes | Working out how to make an effective natural fibre rope preservat…