Birch Bark Canoe

[Port-Na-Storm]

Evening all,
Some of you may follow Doryman's Blog but if you don't, here is a link to an amazing film about a Native American building a birch-bark canoe. The film is very simple with no dialogue, Cesar builds his canoe while the grand-kids play around him. It lasts about an hour so get yourself a brew, click on wide screen, put your feet up and enjoy.

http://youtu.be/VRFCxxAKafc






 

[Jeremy]

Highly recommended viewing.  Someone linked to it on Boat Design a year or so ago and it was one of the very few videos I sat and watched from beginning to end, twice.

The way everything is done by eye, no measuring, no fretting about whether parts will fit, he just calmly gets on and builds the canoe, using little more than a curved knife and an axe, plus the materials in the woodland, is pretty amazing, and made me wonder if we just worry too much about things sometimes..