Collection: Field Notes - Old Fashioned Seamanship Series: Traditional Navigation Techniques Subject: Overview and index for all seven posts i…
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 - Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Traditional Navigation Techniques Subject: The kit — everything you need to na…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Traditional Navigation Techniques Subject: Land signs at sea — birds, clouds, so…
Collection: Field Notes - Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Traditional Navigation Techniques Subject: The lead line — making and markin…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Traditional Navigation Techniques Subject: Finding your latitude without instrum…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Traditional Navigation Techniques Subject: Etak — the Carolinian orientation fra…