If by "seafaring" they mean "clinging to a log", they might be right.
-ccm
They're wrong. Here's the exact quote:
"And yet the painstaking craftsmanship embodied in traditional methods still survives. It is a heritage that stretches back to the time when seafaring began, over 800000 years ago---when mariners first faced the daunting task of how to cross the often hostile domain of the world's oceans."