Gjøa 1872 by Harvey Golden - Roald Amundsen's Cutter built at Rosedahl, Norway

[Dr PR]

Harvey,

 

Nice recovery! It looks very nice.

 

Happy holidays!

[Harvey Golden]

The Gaff Topsail is hoisted!  Next up are the yards' lifts, braces and sheets.  

As I've built the two intact Nattilingmiut kayaks that Amundsen collected on King William Island, I thought I'd also make the three wood and caribou antler sleds-- the specs for these come from J. Garth Taylor's 1974 "Netsilik Eskimo Material Culture: The Roald Amundsen Collection from King William Island."  The model sleds are made from cedar, paper, and copper wire, lashed with button thread. 

[Glen McGuire]

Those sleds look fantastic, Harvey.

[wefalck]

These kayaks look very realistic 👍🏻 I don't remember, did you already describe how they were made?

 

Since I worked for some years in one of the French arctic research instutes (long story how this came about), I got interested a bit in traditional skin-boats and began to collect literature on them: https://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/maritimebibliographies/skin-boat-bibliography.pdf. I had a Greenland kayak lying in the corridor in front of my office.