The New Canoes
From Workshop to Water - Building and Sailing Traditional Pacific Canoes
The Marshall Islands is getting some newly-designed canoes to help the outer islanders end their reliance on gasoline for their outboard motors … and Jo and Rob Birch has the story!
On their YouTube channel Sailing Double Trouble Jo and Rob wrote On September 17, 2020: “When an awesome traditionally designed Pacific canoe anchored next to us at Eneko in Majuro we posted about it on our social media feeds. We were then contacted by Henrik, who is teaching a three-month course on canoe building at WAM (Waan Aelon in Majel) a boat and canoe building school in Majuro.
“We have seen a range of local canoes in our travels around the Pacific so we are pleasantly surprised to see a real passion and interest in building sailing craft in the Marshall Islands. The three-month course Henrik and Rob are teaching is focused on giving the students the skills and knowledge they need so they can go back to their homes on the outer islands and work on building their own sailing craft.
“Two designs were chosen to best represent a more modern approach to building – a Catamaran design loosely based on a Wharram Tiki 21 and an Australian design called a Harryproa.”
The WAM project is part of RMI’s partnership in the Micronesian Sustainable Shipping Project, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
The footage was taken between February and March 2020.
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