Sailing Traditional Pacific CANOES Sailing Pacific Traditional CANOES Marshall Islands From Workshop to Water - Traditional Canoes of the Pacific Building and Sailing Traditional Pacific Canoes From WORKSHOP to WATER - Sailing Traditional CANOES of the Pacific - EP75 When an awesome traditionally designed pacific canoe anchors next to us at Eneco in Majuro, we post about it on our social media feeds. We are contacted by Henrik who is teaching a three month course on canoe building at W.A.M. (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 Harrproa. Henrik and Rob go for a fast sail across the Majuro lagoon to show off the suspension system on a traditional sailing canoe. Links http://proas.is/ Footage from February and March 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: http://sailingdoubletrouble.com/ 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library #sailingdoubletrouble #Majuro

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we're back again here

with uh henrikh mkhitaryan smile

i'm always smiling he's a very busy

person

and i'm not going to say it in

marshallese but it is tell me again

which is pretty much canoes of the

marshall islands um so we just have a

quick tour of the facility

and then we're going to fire some

questions at henrik and he's going to

tell us all about what they're doing

here

because they're doing marvelous things

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while sailing around the pacific we've

noticed a rich history of traditional

sailing craft the most popular are the

smaller outrigger types also known as

pros

they have easily driven hulls with power

provided via paddles or a simple crab

claw

sail

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in the marshall islands we had a

beautiful larger traditional canoe

anchor next to us

when we posted about this on our social

media feeds we got a message from henrik

who was visiting the marshall islands

and involved in a boat building workshop

we arranged to go and speak with him

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this is a school for traditional canoe

building

and we're doing a boat building and yeah

about the link canoe building workshop

here with

the selected group of martialist people

is a three months course

and we're looking to go out sailing soon

i'm rob benny

i designed the other boat for building

which is a harry potter

and i'm from australia

fabulous how did you get involved in

robert

came out here paid for by giz a

wonderful german aid dispenser yeah

and he was one of the group of six guys

that came out here and spent

six months figuring out what was

required

and uh they made a list of what they

wanted

um i was sent the list and

designed a to to match it the whole

object of

what we're doing is to

come up with an alternative uh means of

transport for the people in the outer

islands

who at present uh use huge amounts of

petrol for the alcohol powered boats

it's very expensive to buy here and then

they've got a ship it's even more

expensive

there's no one gets trained in how to

fix the motors

so they break down with these boats

we hope to give the locals a means of

sailing

so that they can sail to go fishing they

can sail and bring their stuff down here

from from the other islands and

hopefully replace the petrol-powered

boats

and what we're doing here is we're not

teaching these guys where we are

teaching them how to build boats

but primarily what we're doing is

teaching them how to teach

other people to build boats and the plan

is that when they

are finished here they go back to their

villages and put out a crew

and build their own boats and all going

well

it spreads all for the pacific and um

outboard motors

no more there have been some recent

structural work completed at wam to

support the canoe building

with a large concrete ramp and big

workshop added to the seawall side of

the building

this had opened a few weeks previously

and allison kellen the director of wham

gave a short speech at its opening

ceremony so i guess as long as we're

talking about exciting

alternative for this country i think

will make it happen

this is a big task

to come up with design that will

not only help the marshall islands but

will help

the pacific islands with the designs and

of course

with the documentation that will turn

into some kind of textbook or

curriculums and so we're doing a very

big thing now

it's no longer a dream anyhow i just

want to thank

each and every one of you as long as

this rock is above water

you are welcome here

the traditional canoes are beautifully

constructed but require a lot of upkeep

the aim of this course was to provide

some new designs that would be easier to

build and maintain

the new craft have an expected lifetime

of at least 15 years and make use of

readily sourced materials

sheets of marine ply waterproofed with

resin infused fiberglass mat and joined

with epoxies

the wood broke yeah now if we put

fiberglass on there as well

you saw how strong the fiberglass was

the other day then it's

very very strong as part of the course

two canoes were being constructed the

designs were intended to demonstrate

more modern construction techniques and

apply them to sea going vessels that

could carry more load than a traditional

outrigger canoe

the hope is that eventually a range of

sailing craft will replace or supplement

the motorized outer island freighter

routes

we asked henrik about the chosen designs

uh very box box shaped harry prowler

and this one is a mixture of the

traditional martinis canoe and the

catamaran

right so it will look a little bit like

a volume tk21

hope they both get a crab claw sale

traditional sale

henrik also explained some of the unique

hull design elements of the traditional

pro canoes

these arts can move independently from

each other

this one is doing nothing it's not

lifting yeah and

these two hearts can be different wave

systems and act independently from each

other

and all this system here is a shock

absorber

sometimes it's better and more fun to

show how the design

translates to practical use so after

bolting our gopro to the main hull

henrik and rob were off in a 15 knot

breeze they had plenty of opportunity to

lift a hull and show

the suspension arrangement of the ammo

hull

the pacific pro canoes are double-ended

and sailed so that the ammo or float is

kept to windward

to reverse direction the foot of the

sail is shunted from one side of the

main

hull to the other when tacking

effectively reversing the direction of

the craft

the ammo provides ballast and even this

relatively small craft can easily carry

at least 100 kilos of copper or similar

produce

the more fun alternative is to keep it

lightly loaded and just to go as fast as

possible

the pacific pro has an amazing turn of

speed and is one of the fastest craft

for their size in the world

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the catamaran design that henrik

developed in conjunction with his

students had some european design

elements

greatly influenced by one of the more

well-known advocates of the pacific

canoes

james warren the warm designs are very

successful

ocean-going craft greatly influenced by

pro designs and range in

size from 21 feet all the way up to over

60.

one of the big advantages a catamaran

can provide is that it is able to carry

more load for a given length than a

canoe as it has more volume in each hull

the high sided hulls and secure central

platform provide some protection from

the elements

and the more modern fixed rudders and

a-frame mast means the craft has a

dedicated four-and-a-half hull

the sail is crab cored and easy to

handle as it is designed to be tanked in

the western sense

rather than being shunted

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in the 15 and 1600s early european

explorers of the pacific region took

notes

sketches and whole canoes back to europe

where local boat builders

attracted by the minimalist nature and

amazing speeds the pros are capable of

tweaked and tinkered with the designs

and a european variation developed

the harry potter design originates in

australia and is a hybrid of the pacific

and the european designs

it uses a long thin hull and a shorter

fatter ammo hull to windwood

the ammo is designed to provide buoyancy

and stability rather than ballast in a

traditional pacific prower

like the pacific designs the sails and

mast are positioned on the main hull

and it is shunted to change direction

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the advantage to the design is that it

still sells very efficiently

but it is able to carry more load due to

the additional storage

in each hull

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it is wonderful to see a resurgence in

popularity for the pro and canoe

construction in the marshall islands

there is a long tradition of ocean

exploring in the region with traditional

celestial and wave navigation still

being passed down through families

as a visitor to the marshall islands

it's a real treat to be able to shout a

cheerful yakwee to the crew of a

fast-moving prower

that is skillfully skimming the back of

our anchored yacht

it is also refreshing to see the value

being placed in cultivating and

developing sustainable transport

within and between the atolls of the

marshall islands

which are ideally suited to take

advantage of reliable trade winds over

the course of most of the year

if you wish to find out a little bit

more about canoes of the marshall

islands please check the links in the

description below

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