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PeterH

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Scandinavian skin boats -Landstrom

Nov 24, 2005, 11:38

Received Bjorn Landstrom's magnificent book this morning. He clears up some of the points we have discussed.

Yes - he is confident that the rock pictures depict skin boats and were as seaworthy as umiaks and curraghs. He reckons that the mysterious spurs are runners so that when the boats were dragged up out of the water on to rough beaches, the hide would not be damaged.

An insight into the apparent masts which would be just about impossible in anything but a keeled wooden boat is given from his own childhood in Finland. He used leafy tree branches to catch the wind.

I have copied a page from the book as fair copying for study purposes. Even so, I shall delete it after a few days.

You can see it at http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=17760

I'm happy to search the book for possible answers to further questions

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