Traditional Boats - East and West - at Douglas Brooks Boatbuilding

Douglas Brooks is a boatbuilder, writer and researcher, specializing in wooden boats built to traditional Western and Japanese designs. My research work involves documenting the design secrets and techniques of traditional Japanese boatbuilding, working directly with Japan's last wooden boatbuilders. I also research the boatbuilding traditions of the Lake Champlain Basin where I live. http://www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com COPYRIGHT © Douglas Brooks and douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com 2016.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Japan: September, 2012

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I was invited to Japan this September to speak on rural cultural preservation at a conference in Kameoka, a small city outside of Kyoto. My...

Thursday, March 8, 2012

UPCOMING LECTURES

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I have several speaking engagements coming up. I will be talking about my work in Japan at the Norwich Public Library in Norwich, Vermont o...

Monday, November 21, 2011

Boatbuilding Workshops

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Some old and future news: Last September I taught a boatbuilding workshop for the first time in awhile. In fact the last time I taught was ...

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Japan Times article

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In yet another throwback to my sabani project in Okinawa, a feature article about me appeared in the Japan Times this fall. The author had ...

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sabani Update

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After much procrastinating, I have turned what was formerly the blog I kept while building the sabani in Okinawa to now a general blog about...

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Latest news

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I will be giving a lecture in Brattleboro, VT this Saturday, March 20th at 2pm at the Brooks Memorial Library on my research work in Japan. ...

Friday, February 12, 2010

Home Again

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I promised additional blog postings even though the boat was built, but jet lag and getting back into the swing of things after two and a ha...

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Douglas Brooks: I am a boatbuilder, writer and researcher with a special interest in traditional Japanese boatbuilding. Since 1996 I have apprenticed with nine boatbuilders throughout Japan, building and documenting the designs and construction of over a dozen distinct types of Japanese boats. My research involves working directly with craftsmen in order to document their secrets and techniques. In my view this work is crucial, as Japan's last traditional boatbuilders leave little or no written record of their work and most have no apprentices. This work is chronicled in my latest book, Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding, published in 2015 by Floating World Editions. Signed and inscribed copies are available from my website. Here in the US I build wooden boats for private clients and as education projects for museums and municipalities. I also teach boatbuilding and I am researching the boats and boatbuilding traditions of the Lake Champlain Basin where I live. I write for WoodenBoat magazine, among other publications. Please visit my website: www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com COPYRIGHT NOTICE © Douglas Brooks and douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com 2020.

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