Mahalo,
The project Navis, done by the group STIK was followed the goal to made reconstruction of the boat from 1st centurie! The 3rd Dugout canoe done in Ljubljana! After Lucian's and Stane one, this huge piece of wood touch the water! Kudos to all who was involved in work and organization! Wooden boat done by hand for 7 people is basically replica of the canoe from 1st century, founded in the Ljublanica river! Luc was found new friends and he was helping to bring the boat to the water! He get also the chance to row another full wood canoe done in the past from the same group!
More of Navis project
https://www.facebook.com/projektnavis/
https://projektnavis.wordpress.com/
Gallery of the event
https://goo.gl/photos/sUaKEc2N1trBETTb8

 

Dugout canoe_ "Deblak" by Stane Klemenc

Mahalo,
So far so good, my friend Stane Klemenc
made a four sitter from one piece of wood !
Long story short, the dugout canoe was
in the past well known boats at Bohinj lake!
Now after so many centuries the wooden canoe is again on the lake!
Congratulation Stane :-)

Photo gallery
 https://goo.gl/photos/d1UnLVpKsBDQVJg4A

Dugout canoe_ "Deblak" Stage Three,

Mahalo,
Another nice day on the lake with Luc "Dugout canoe proa experimental"! Successful sailing around the lake, means the work was done properly, from construction, assembly and what is even more important the proa is sail-able!
I was again behind the lenses and tech support ;-)

 

Thx also to the core members of sailing club Bled, for all suport!

Kundo to Luc!
dr.

 

 

"Dugout canoe proa experimental"

Dugout canoe_ "Deblak" Stage two,
well the wooden canoe get modification by Luc, powered by two Opti sails and we have the official launch yesterday! Luc was busy to prepare everything with setup and at the end of the day the "Dugout canoe proa experimental" land on the lake Bled. More tests will be proceed in close future, at this time the proa canoe works well! It will get replacement for surf board, with new outrigger made from wood! wait and see ;-)

Behind camera & tech support
drLojz

Dugout canoe_ "Deblak"

Mahalo,
the summer project of Luc, Ota and friend Peter was finished today! Mission complete!
The group started in mid May, when Luc was found at river Sava bank the broken Spruce!
Well not the best wood for the Dugout canoe, but handful ;-)
Big work done to carved the whole tree out of round shape!
Today the work was so far to make test on the river Sava!

Picasa Gallery

Google Gallery

Congratulation to the group and the the work done!
The canue will get hte modification to the end of summer to be Proa sail boat,
 for the local lake of Bled! Let's wait & see!