18th Century Boat Replica From Russia Stops in Sault Ste. Marie

https://www.9and10news.com/2020/08/24/18th-century-boat-replica-from-russia-stops-in-sault-ste-marie/

Those Other Bark Canoes!

NSW's oldest boat uncovered during works.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/metro-excavation-finds-nsw-oldest-boat/video/8002e7467df90bcb31c6a1c43fa34774

Fire Lighting Quotes.

Lov na race; čakališče na jezeru pri jami Lisišče (1759) by  Franz Anton von Steinberg which depicts waterfowl hunting.

"There happened to be an iron pot and an ax on board--- they cut off a piece of the boat rope, and picked it to oakum, and putting it in the pan of a gun, with some powder, catched it on fire, which with some thin pieces cut from the mast, they kindled in the pot, and then cut up their mast, seats, &c. for fuel, and making a tent of their sail, wrapt themselves as well as they could;"

From The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1765, 3 men trapped in the ice in their boat during a waterfowl hunt and likely to freeze to death:

Building a nawi

http://bushcraftoz.com/forums/showthread.php?9412-Building-a-nawi

An 18th Century sloop thought to be the oldest known commercial ship to have sailed the Great Lakes has been found at the bottom of Lake Ontario by shipwreck explorers.

More here: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/18/Rare-18th-century-sloop-found-at-the-bottom-of-Lake-Ontario/1421471562370/

Foudroyant and Pégase entering Portsmouth Harbour, 1782

Foudroyant and Pégase entering Portsmouth Harbour, 1782

More images and story here: http://britishtars.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/foudroyant-and-pegase-entering.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+BritishTars1740-1790+(British+Tars,+1740-1790)

Found. Dugout Canoe.

The dugout canoe, probably hand-hewn in the 18th century, was first found on Turtle Island in May. Daufuskie Island residents and University of South Carolina archaeologists, aided by natural erosion around the craft, were able to break the mud's grip Oct. 4.
http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/10/10/2240382/centuries-old-canoe-unearthed.html 

 

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Aboriginal Watercraft.

Hide Covered Coracles - The New Prototype

A great post on Guy Mallinson's blog at: http://guymallinson.blogspot.com/2011/02/hide-covered-coracles-new-prototype.html#comment-form

The Loss Of History.

The Quay (trailer) from Richard Fleury on Vimeo.

Pauline's Pirates & Privateers. Tools Of The Trade: The Buccaneers Gun

This post I have copied from the following blog that I have just started following:
http://paulinespiratesandprivateers.blogspot.com/2010/11/tools-of-trade-buccaneers-gun.html
A good post and a good read. Go to the blog to read more.

They name the musket their gun and have used it with great ingenuity to make up for their lack of resources.



Thus wrote Triple P’s house physician Alexander Exquemelin of the famous boucaniers of Tortuga. They were, said the Doctor in his eye-witness accounts, reliably efficient marksman who could be compared to “… the finest of the French Musketeers”. This is a statement not to be taken lightly when one considers the facts surrounding it. First, the flintlock musket, with its long barrel, smooth bore and uneven shot, is ungainly and ill suited to accuracy in the eyes of modern marksmen. Second, the French Musketeers had a reputation in their day comparable in many ways to modern special ops snipers.