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Boatbuilding Documentary & Book Project

In February I will be going back to Japan for my tenth apprenticeship with a boatbuilder, continuing work I started in 1996. I will be building a cormorant fishing boat with the last builder of the Miyoshi region of Hiroshima Prefecture. I will have a documentary filmmaker with me and the goals of this project are to produce a book and film. My focus will be documenting the design secrets and techniques of building this boat. Read More …

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