TaneC21
The sea: fishing, boats and rope
- Age at landing
- 25
- From
- Maori, from Northland, New Zealand
- Before
- Commercial fisherman; crew on a traditional voyaging canoe
- Main skill
- Fishing, sailing, finding the way by the stars
- Other skills
- Nets, knots, rope, diving, weather
- Personality
- Easygoing and big-hearted, a teller of long stories. Fearless on water. Laughs at storms.
- Strength
- Feeds everyone from the third day, and keeps spirits up.
- Flaw
- Takes life as it comes, so he is careless on land. Goes to sea whenever there is a quarrel.
- Wants
- To sail past the horizon and come back.
- Story arc
- From the stone fish trap of week one to captain of the first steamboat.
- Dies
- Year 49, aged 74. Of age, five years after he captains the steamboat.
- First partner
- Yara, from month 8
- Leads phases
- —
- Helps in phases
- 01 First days: water, fire, shelter
02 Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit
03 Food security and the first camp
07 Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
08 Farming, cloth, leather and household industry
15 Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid
Tane and Yara
Yara sews the first sail from hides and tells Tane it is badly rigged. He takes her out to prove otherwise; she is seasick and furious.
He goes to sea whenever there is trouble. She says the thing he is avoiding.
Procedures Tane leads
Procedures Tane helps with
Sketches with Tane
