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.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Rushton Construction Details

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On the WoodenBoat Forum someone asked for construction details for this dinghy and I thought that was a good idea, though its bitterly cold ...

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Rushton dinghy

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This blog has been dominated by boats from just one half of the blog title "Boats East and West." Its time I posted something abo...

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Stay Tuned.....

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While I was in Japan this past summer I received a deposit for another Japanese boat. Its for a formal Japanese garden in the Midwest (as i...

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Sabani sailing!

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Soon after I returned from my summer in Japan, I was sent a photograph showing the sabani that I helped build in Okinawa two years ago racin...

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Follow up

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I've been in Kyoto the last week, doing some legwork for a possible return to Japan in November to build another boat: this one a river ...

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Arigatou

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There is absolutely no way this project could have happened without the help of three people here in Japan: Koji Matano and Yoshiko and Ta...

Shinsuishiki - Launching

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Launched! The typhoon veered away and we had a calm, overcast, but hot and sticky morning for our launch ceremony, called a shinsuishi...

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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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