Kayak
The kayak is the one-man hunting boat of the Inuit, Yupik and Inupiat, a frame of wood or bone stretched tight with sealskin, so light and watertight that a single hunter could carry it, launch it alone, and paddle it silently across the open sea after seals, walrus and whales. The hunter sat in its small cockpit, wearing a skin parka lashed to the rim so that the boat sealed around him, and with his harpoon and lance he could hunt from the surface and even right the kayak in the Eskimo roll, turning it over and back with a twist of the paddle. The design was perfected over millennia and was o