Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Reading the Sea the Old Fashioned Way Subject: Reading tidal currents from the …
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: Reading the Sea the Old Fashioned Way Subject: The Beaufort wind scale, fetch, …
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series: Reading the Sea the Old Fashioned Way Subject: Overview and index for all seven po…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Reading the Sea the Old Fashioned Way Subject: What sand ripples, beach gradient,…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Reading the Sea the Old Fashioned Way Subject: Bioluminescence, navigation lig…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Reading the Sea the Old Fashioned Way Subject: Wave behaviour, refraction, refl…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Reading the Sea the Old Fashioned Way Subject: What swell is, why it persists, h…