Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hubs: Weather Forecasting | Coastal and Offshore Passage Planning Subject: How to r…
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: Weather Forecasting Subject: Field forecasting — assembling a short-range for…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Weather Forecasting Subject: What hills do to wind — gap acceleration, channel…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Weather Forecasting Subject: The sea breeze and the land breeze — the mechanism…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series Hub: Weather Forecasting Subject: Why the forecast is always wrong on terrain-influ…
Collection: Field Notes — Old Fashioned Seamanship Series: Weather Forecasting Subject: Overview and index for all eleven posts in the Weather…