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2018-08-15 02:09:23 - Interesting videos on the Beru to Bora Bora race
This is a great doco about these early Pacific voyages. When I was on Kiribati in the early seventies, I helped a bit with the construction of the float (ama) for this voyaging canoe, and went for a sail on her.

The video is here. It is great viewing for anyone doing this race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kmrO9ct8qw

The first two parts of the video are here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6YPFYtIOww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xme7iuWhh58

The floats for the canoes used to be salvaged large logs which had drifted down from Canada or the NW of the States..light softwoods. Because the Brits banned voyaging in 1910 or so, they didn't have any logs.

Hence, the first float was of hardwood and proved to have too little buoyancy and too much weight. They subsequently built a plywood one which you see in most of the video.

This in turn proved too buoyant, so we had to strengthen the platform joining the float to the canoe. That was the stage I was involved in, in a small way. But it was great fun to be involved, and even more fun to sail on her.
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2018-08-17 17:10:34 - Re: Interesting videos on the Beru to Bora Bora race
I am so pleased you posted this info... will be linked in the Race Report for sure :-)

Thank you.
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I am so pleased you posted this info... will be linked in the Race Report for sure :-)

Thank you.
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2018-08-20 01:23:35 - Re: Interesting videos on the Beru to Bora Bora race
Glad they're useful :)

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