INUIT KAYAK
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:43 pm
The Inuit Eskimos invented the KAYAK around 2000-3000 years ago and still use them for hunting and transportation.
The KAYAK is a narrow skin covered craft the frame was made of whalebone and driftwood. Seams were made watertight with whale fat or seal blood.
The word kayak means hunter’s boat.
She is propelled by a single or double bladed paddle.
The paddler sitting on the bottom with legs outstretched he wore a sealskin apron (annuraaq) to keep water from getting in the craft. When the KAYAK capsized he had to known how to roll back up.
They could weather heavy seas. The man and his light and speedy KAYAK were as one.
Length range from 2.2 – 10.4m but most fall within the 4.6 – 8 m. range; widths 0.3 – 0.7m. depth 0.15m.
Canada 1989 38c sg1317, scott1231.
Greenland 1971 50 ore sg 77, scott? 1997 4.75Kr. sg 320, scott373.
Source: Watercraft Philately. Canada Post Corp. Commemorative Stamp Bulletin. Aak to Zumbra, a dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.
The KAYAK is a narrow skin covered craft the frame was made of whalebone and driftwood. Seams were made watertight with whale fat or seal blood.
The word kayak means hunter’s boat.
She is propelled by a single or double bladed paddle.
The paddler sitting on the bottom with legs outstretched he wore a sealskin apron (annuraaq) to keep water from getting in the craft. When the KAYAK capsized he had to known how to roll back up.
They could weather heavy seas. The man and his light and speedy KAYAK were as one.
Length range from 2.2 – 10.4m but most fall within the 4.6 – 8 m. range; widths 0.3 – 0.7m. depth 0.15m.
Canada 1989 38c sg1317, scott1231.
Greenland 1971 50 ore sg 77, scott? 1997 4.75Kr. sg 320, scott373.
Source: Watercraft Philately. Canada Post Corp. Commemorative Stamp Bulletin. Aak to Zumbra, a dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.