Among the Multihulls, Chapter Thirteen & Fourteen, Video illustrations with Commentary

Chapter 13 – Fully Depreciated

World Bank Consultancy to Kenya and Burundi. Intense exposure to “New Colonialism.” Night fishing on lakes Victoria and Tanganyika with tribal fishermen and Fuji Kada. Travel to Lamu, Malindi, Mombassa and Bujumbura. Coming to understand the fiscal realities of international development. Report writing in D.C. The World Bank culture.

Chapter 14 – Crowded Garden

Burundi project. Constant Camber method goes Third World. Intense cross-cultural adventure teaching African tribal fishermen how to build sophisticated wood-epoxy catamaran fishing canoes to replace indigenous dugouts for which noble log supply is locally exhausted. Post-colonial agonies. This World Bank-financed bootstrap development project unexpectedly goes into profit; local government takes over, project ultimately fails but trainees have leg up in finding places in private sector.