Canoes of the Marshall Islands

[@aublrez8432]

The presenter did a very good job and the guy who explains the parts was great.

[@tullybond7554]

The guy explaining the parts is Alson Kelen. The last Master canoe builder in the Marshall Islands. He has taught many Marshallese canoe builders to keep the tradition of sea voyaging continue to the future.

[@aublrez8432]

Amazing and illustrative explanation. Congratulations to all the makers!!.

[@Bloomio95]

Excellent, i´m craving for even more details! I have deep respect for this culture and their ability to pass on their knowledge without even having written language for hundreds of years

[@Itsjustchris21]

Its a tradition to pass on the knowledge from generation to generation

[@misterbeans6064]

Tulou ni ki tatou tupuna katoa. Deepest respect to the ancestors of all our pacific island peoples, may we all learn to recognise treasure and preserve their legacy as we voyage into our future.

[@georgeacenas2349]

I respect the peoples, craft and meanings of the parts. My Filipino ancestors and cousins use and sail the outrigger trimaran. Maraming Salamat 🇵🇭

[@markbrown-sb2zm]

Fantastic and beautiful and you can see that these boats are the fruit of the best nautical knowledge over many centuries and the West is that far behind.RESPECT.

[@frankrussell4664]

Great documentary! I could watch these craft sail all day. Thank you for the wonderful footage and excellent explanations and descriptions of the canoes. I've perused KZbin for years looking for videos that describes the canoes and less on the social importance. There are plenty of those... This video goes into depth on the history, and construction. Thank you!

[@naphtaliexiled1000]

Frank Russell MAYBE YOU WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW AN INTERESTING FACT. THE WORD CANOE BELONGS TO PACIFIC ISLANDERS, AND IT BELONGS TO MY ISLANDS. HISTORIANS SAY THAT THE WORD CANOE TRACES BACK TO THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS NATIVES, BUT THAT DOESN’T EVEN MATCH THE MEANING THEY PROVIDED. KANU IN MY LANGUAGE MEANS SMALL OR SHORT. AND THAT IS WHAT CANOE REALLY MEANS. IT MEANS A SMALL VESSEL. LAP MEANS BIG OR GREAT AND THAT IS WHAT WE CALL OUR BIGGER VESSELS. SO THIS WORD BELONGS TO PACIFIC ISLANDERS. BECAUSE WE HAVE A MEANING TO THIS WORD, AND IT MATCHES THE MEANINGS OF HOW WE NAME OUR VESSELS. YOU CAN WATCH CANOES FROM ANY ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC. THAT IS GOOD YOU ENJOYED THIS ONE.

[@islandguy6928]

This Naphtali Exiled person above me is a conspiracy/pseudoscience lunatic.We Marshallese do not claim this person.Majority of what this person spews are fictitious.

[@shoutatthesky]

Such a great video! It was really interesting and packed with exciting footage and so much information. Excellent job!

[@adamnorton748]

This is great. Way to explain the sailboat but so much more the people who made and sailed them

[@micronesiangreatness]

We still have the tradition 🤘🙌 alive and well.

[@therealzilch]

I'm glad. What a wonderful combination of craft, art, and engineering.

[@3-DtimeCosmology]

Downright sophisticated.

[@jamesjohn1850]

Great video such amazing techniques in canoe building with a shock absorber as well. brilliant, i love the representation of family and community in the canoe. God bless and keep this family culture alive in the Marshall Islands.

[@Antipodean33]

Great doco, very interesting. Captain Cook was impressed with these boats, so much so that he took measurements in detail and recorded them in his journals. I had a couple of canoe offsets from a Cook book, although those were from the Tongans

[@carryonpompei]

Nicely made film, great script.

[@TyJee28]

Wonderful explanation of the features, functions, nomenclature and capabilities these watercraft. Quite amazing the genius technology solutions discovered or developed by ancient peoples over hundreds of years figuring out how to survive in different environments around the world. [the Aleutian Islands baidarka kayaks, and the viking's boats being other examples]. In this case a water world. I have had an interest in the Pacific historic traditional watercraft, navigation methods, migrations for forty years. Thank you for these insights into the canoe culture of the Marshall Islands people. One of the most interesting & informative videos I have seen.

[@Captain_Bartolo]

Beautiful art of sailing! Bravo

[@alanberry5091]

Kommol tata - truly enjoyed seeing how a Marshallese canoe is made and sailed at speed. Very Good.

[@vicentediaz3814]

kalangan for posting this. it is inspiring and it is good to see the labor of Dennis and Alson in action.

[@paraworth]

Excellent job Thank you for your passion

[@eugeniosolari]

Great video, so detailed. Very interesting to be watched.

[@ikealafu3311]

Thanks a million for uploading this true gem!! This is such a great and masterful piece that I hope to see more, perhaps with more insight on building processes and songs or navigation tools such as the stick frame. My respects for sharing this cultural treasure. malo lava!

[@danoyes1]

Thanks so much for this... What incredibly beautiful boats!

[@maas6927]

Every parts of the canoe is harmony and family

[@leonaisamo2317]

Great and informative documentary. Wish there will be one about Education system in the Marshall Islands and how the culture may or may not have effects on it.

[@JoeLinux2000]

This is an absolutely excellent and accurate video on these wonderful canoes. I built a small sailing version from two sheets of plywood when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer on Likiep in 1966. I wonder if the smaller hulls are now being produced in fiberglass? A uniform class might be great for organized racing with a two or three man crew. The sail plan is not well suited for single handed sailing.

[@frankrussell4664]

It would be great to see a fleet of the smaller canoes, like we see here in this video, sailing around any harbor in this part of the world, .Long Island Sound, NY

[@rogerjackson2308]

Awesome video and great traditions

[@smallislandenormousculture3023]

Kommol tata for uploading this.

[@satori_mountian_station]

I thought it was a great example until I realized you didnt sail the boat! I wouldve loved to see the parts interact on the water. I love the video, you did such a good job I need more!

[@clovisgeigers7020]

Awesome. Thanks heaps for the video. 😇

[@I0goose0I]

Inspiring to watch and see their knowledge demonstrated. I would love to sail on their yaakw. Would love more rot make a Tlingit style yaakw in their style.

[@jonjon2663]

Awesome, great documentary! Thankyou! Amazing technology, the big problem and risk of losing the cultural heritage, boat bulding skills and design concepts is this insistance on never writing anything down, never documenting anything, no plans, no schematics, no explanations of anything, it must be all passed down orally. It's a paranoid feature of island cultures thinking the evil West will steal their ideas? I don't know..it's so crazy and dangerous to the future of the culture. It is amazing technology and expertise created and refined over a huge period of time, why not share it with the world by documenting it properly? It's a shame. There's plenty of free information, extensive histories and explanations of most of Western technology throughout the ages that anyone in the world can access, but seemingly nothing on these amazing machines!

[@HaileISela]

there is knowledge deeper than what the books can hold and tell and the reason this knowledge still exists is because of the brilliance of its embodied expertise passing on. it is and remains a living system, changing with time, yes, but doing so organically rather than being seemingly static as the written records often cast their spell on what they contain. i have the greatest respect and gratitude for this outstandingly synergetic tradition. i have seen many sailing ships and vessels and have the feeling these are perhaps the ones with the deepest level of applied synergetics. the entire structure is triangulated and in tensegrity, while the whole thing is created from the immediate environment with next to no waste, if any. no pollution, no unnecessary construction, simple and sound. an amazing, awe-inspiring wealth of mindscapes, stories and grace dancing on the interface of the airocean of kinship Eairth

[@wontonmin6481]

We are in that point where navigating using ocean current and stars are slowly dying literally! we are so dependent on technology i hope we keep it going 🙏 Hawaiian Polynesian lost theirs

[@captainheather]

Amazing!

[@johnrobinson3852]

I see now the outrigger canoe is the most beautiful boat on the water

[@Blacknight-1111]

Oh G.., perfection.

[@konstantinkover1050]

wonderfull video... life...love.... familiy..and the sea....

[@fileminokilicho3159]

Marshall Islands is the place where navigation originated thousands of years ago.

[@baot.5770]

Great canoe! How does the sail work when the wind blows to the side without the outrigger? Thanks.

[@HaileISela]

they keep the same side to the wind and simply put the sail on the other end. they show it somewhere in the beginning

[@johnreid8551]

How is the sail attached to the canoe?

[@YoSip3Ek]

Hi there technically it is not attached to the canoe it is a metaphor? It can be rigged with lines and locks on and off the canoe so I hope you understand. I’ll be happy to explain more.

[@johnreid8551]

Josh Libenirok So, the sail’s basically a kite tied to the boat. Is the pole (mast?)midship a flexible one that accommodates the sail at either end?

[@macmurfy2jka]

@@johnreid8551 yes, essentially, you are kitesurfing with one of these. The knife like main hull is foil shaped and acts like center fins to keep the boat from slipping to leeward. Then to sail you are just adjusting the point of pressure from on side to the other. Very fast across and down the wind. No able to go too far to windward but shunting is so fast that is doesn’t really matter. The rudder paddles are for fine adjustment of headings or to act as a movable keel, adding ability to go upwind. A crew of three, stearing, rigging and bailing, can all paddle if the wind dies with their own paddle. Neat system overall.

[@johnreid8551]

@@macmurfy2jka I want to help somebody with their next build just to learn with hands on experience.

[@macmurfy2jka]

@@johnreid8551 yeah, you and me both. Currently I and looking to use an Expandacraft outrigger kit with a canoe that the family has. I’ve got contacts with some used windsurf rigs that I can lash up to make it work. Hopefully will start making some stitch and glue boats in the future.

[@RRoger68]

America's cup are designed from these great Waka's of the time, They were doubled hull and twice as big as the Endeavor. But Europeans couldn't stand that the pacific nation was better on the sea so the name canoe was best to describe those mega structures of the pacific.

[@islandvibez]

I know these as the Bangka ☺Only difference is, theres two outriggers on a bangka, whereas this one has one.

[@SuperHyee]

Hurrah ! Hurrah !

[@razaliariffin7622]

is jinen wa = genoa?

[@YoSip3Ek]

No it mean the mother of the canoe : jinen=mother; wa= canoe.

[@farmer998]

can't here because of the music that is unnecessary

[@steveandthedogs]

Ruined by unnecessary music

[@danhaywood5696]

No way in hell I'd prefer a gasoline engine ober that. Single outboard ain't very safe. These sailing canoes are awesome. I will make one using my canoes.