Vanished barks sail again: the tradition of boat building in Bangladesh dates back several thousand years. However it looked certain to face extinction until Runa Khan Marre stepped in and set about restoring these wooden river boats for a living museum.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Up until a generation ago the 24,000 kilometres of Bangladesh's rivers presented a spectacle from another age: hundreds of thousands of wooden sailing boats jostling to move people and goods along the country's vast aquatic network. Lately the country's riverscapes have transformed beyond recognition as...

Drift Boats and River Dories.
Drift Boats and River Dories Roger L. Fletcher Stackpole Books 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 9780811702348 $49.95 www.stackpolebooks.com A focus on drift-boat history and design isn't for every general lending collection but it should be considered a 'must'...

Vaka moana; voyages of the ancestors; the discovery and settlement of the Pacific.
9780824832131 Vaka moana; voyages of the ancestors; the discovery and settlement of the Pacific. Ed. by K.R. Howe. U. of Hawai'i Pr. 2006 360 pages $59.00 Hardcover GN670 Accessible to the...

The if's around us.
Byline: Romeo V. Pefianco IF Laguna de Bay and Pasig River were fairly clean navigation in both waterways would promote the boat building industry and employ hundreds, if not thousands, in Metro Manila and the towns of Rizal and Laguna. Relieving main roads ...

Boat-building brothers chart a course to success.
Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard Brothers Lloyd and Stacy Slonecker sport nice tans, which is a little suspicious: They claim they spend a lot of their time indoors, building their signature fishing boats. But apparently they find a few days to get out on the water, too....

Ancient Africans in recent America: in continental United States, there were Africans who came before slavery, before Columbus, and thousands of years before Christ. They were engaged in boat building, seafaring, trade and commerce. They still exist today, owning millions of acres of lands in the southern United States and the Mississippi Valley. But don't expect to read about them in the mainstream media, reports Paul Barton.
In many parts of the Americas today, there are still people of African Negritic racial background who continue to exist either blended into the larger African-American population or are part of separate, indigenous groups living on their own lands with their own unique culture and languages. One...

Louis Rubin: a Charleston Jew, boat-building, and the shaping form of memory.
"We are our memory."--Louis Rubin, Small Craft Advisory "IN MY END IS MY BEGINNING," T. S. Eliot proclaims at the end of "Burnt Norton." Louis Rubin has followed this dictum in writing the three book-length memoirs he has published to date. The first, Small Craft Advisory: A...

Composite hulls sail into the future: technological advances in composite materials have helped yacht owners maintain their investment value.
Sailing yachts can be built from a variety of materials including wood, steel, ferro-cement, aluminium and composites, but composite construction has emerged as the winner in terms of market share for modern sailing yacht construction because of the price and performance advantages that it can offer over other boat...

OUTDOORS BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard Historic wooden drift boat display planned The history of wooden river boats and wooden boat building will be celebrated with a special display along the banks of the McKenzie River from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Eagle Rock Lodge - located...

Getting out of the office.
There are two societal phenomena that frustrate me to the point of hanging up my stethoscope and converting my garage into a boat-building shop. The first of these is the expanding collection of behavioral dysfunctions among America's children that are often mislabeled attention-deficit disorders. The other is the overweight...