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Posted by on 03/05 at 01:25 PM
Harmen Hielkema has joined the blogosphere at Canoes of Oceania. Harmen designs and builds proas in New Zealand with an artistic eye and an appreciation for prior native art. From his blog:

Every culture with very few exceptions, somewhere in its past has some connection with the sea and a technology for moving or sailing on it. The sailboat was the first machine to give men freedom of motion without harnessing muscle power. Few of us any longer recognize that the sailboat was truly the first instrument which freed us from bondage to the land ... the waka ama, the first sailboat that could move up wind. This invention made previously inaccessible areas of the world accessible to man, ... Neither do we recall, unless our attention is drawn to it that the sailboat was the first machine to achieve powered motion without rotating parts. Bernard Smith, The 40 Knot Sailboat, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1963.

Comments

  • I love the vortex design on Harmen’s illustration. Very cool.

    Posted by Editor  on  03/05  at  02:16 PM
  • Linkey no workey!

    Posted by  on  03/22  at  03:48 PM
  • It used to. He must’ve deleted his blog. Enigma, thy name is Harmen.

    Posted by  on  03/22  at  04:24 PM
  • The blog is still there Michael. It’s just your spelling!
    http://harmenhielkema.blogspot.com/

    Posted by  on  03/23  at  02:36 AM
  • I can’t tell you how many times my speeling catches me up like that. Thanks for the proper URL. (Off to NYC today, btw! - a family funeral)

    Posted by  on  03/23  at  04:16 AM

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