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.

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Mino, Opening Day

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Mino is famous for washi,  traditional Japanese paper and with our half-day Saturday holiday we visited the Washi Art Gallery where they di...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Planking the Bottom

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Almost the end of our first week building the cormorant fishing boat. Nasu san told us he considers the bottom to represent 30% of the total...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

It Begins

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We start tomorrow, Monday, building the cormorant fishing boat. Last week we built our shelter structure, a project started by one of the fu...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Boat for the Meijer Japanese Garden

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For the last month I have been working on a boat commissioned by the new Japanese garden at the Frederick Meijer Botanical Garden & ...
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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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