The Pesse canoe is the world's oldest-known boat. Dating to the Mesolithic period 8040 BC - 7510 BC, it is about 10,000 years old. There were older boats of course, hundreds of thousands of years earlier, but this is the oldest surviving boat. See the whole video on Nordic Bronze Age sailing now on Dan Davis History #history #prehistory #archeology | Dan Davis - Author

14K views · 257 reactions | ACTION with the @hawaiian_sailing_canoe_assoc this past weekend taking the canoes from Waimanalo to Haleiwa!!! Full TV show to follow - Mahalo HSCA for having us folow the adventures!!! Hoe Pa'a! #oceanpaddlertv #hawaiiansailingcanoeassociation #ZONEMedia | Ocean Paddler TV | Facebook

Here’s another bit of drone footage of our canoe rowing and sailing system. More than anything else both of these features are designed to be as simple as possible. My recent experiments with the pedal drive not withstanding, I generally subscribe to the philosophy that complexity is the enemy in small boats. . The pop-up sail weighs next to nothing and tucks out of the way in normal canoe mode, but is ready to pop up in a flash to catch a favorable breeze. In a longer boat, it can run down wind