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, July 21, 2015

Instagram - Brave New World

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Can I be blamed for being slow to adopt social media?  After all, I've made a career of studying traditional boatbuilding, avoiding most...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding - The book!

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Last week I took possession of a sizable portion of the print run of my new book, Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding .  This is the culmination of...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Goodbye Tokyo

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Just a connecting flight away from home.  It was a great trip all in all, an amazing boat built and some interesting old boats measured.  An...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Research: Hobikisen and Sappabune

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I spent yesterday talking to Tagami san about his life building boats, along with two researchers from the Tokyo area who are involved in do...
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Lake Kasumigaura, Mr. Ichiro Tagami, and the Hobikisen

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My friend Shinya Tominaga drove me here yesterday, a couple of hours outside of Tokyo, to visit Mr. Ichiro Tagami.  He is the last builder o...
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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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