Several years ago Brian Schulz of Cape Falcon Kayak and I began animating a wooden kayak skeleton with bones of driftwood. That kayak eventually came to life at the Rabbitstick Rendezvous, and became a landmark for primitive skills, one of a very small handful of kayaks built traditionally with animal hides and driftwood since the mid-1900s.
So that this hard-won experience would not vanish, I submitted an article to the Bulletin of Primitive Technology, and it now graces the cover of the Fall 2008 Transportation issue. If you haven’t read the Bulletin, you may want to become a member of the Society of Primitive Technology!
The full article is available on our website here as well.
In 2006 and 2007, Kiliii Yu of Seawolf and Brian Schulz from Cape Falcon began a unique project– The construction of a driftwood-framed kayak with hide covering. We finished it and skinned it traditional Greenland-style. The kayak Anqeti made the front cover of the November 2008 Bulletin of Primitive Technology.