OUTRIGGER BOATS AND SHIPS    

          FROM SOUTH EAST ASIA

         A TRIBUTE TO  ANCIENT S E ASIAN MARITIME INVENTIVENESS

                                                                 M P Deva

                                                         devamp37@gmail.com

                              AN ACIENT COASTAL  TIED LOG RAFT OF SOUTH ASIA

                                                 CALLED KATTU MARAM IN TAMIL

                          still in use in 21st century  whose name was mistakenly used

           to describe outriggers also new to them as CATAMARAN  by foreign mariners   

                                   

A double outrigger in Port Moresby, PNG, 2000

The very well known Borobodur double Outrigger with sail 830 AD

from

 the wolrd famous Borobodur temple engravings depicting t

he vessels that plied between Java and south east India

spreading trade and helping spread Buddhism

A model of a Majapahit double  outrigger sailing shiprom at least 1000 years ago 

 

They were derived from these smaller outriggers over millenia and are still used 

from Africa to Hawaii

SAILING WEST OF SOUTH EAST ASIA

 

ANDMAN Is

                                                    Single Outrigger and struts

                                                                

       SENTNALESE double outrigger canoe

                      

SRI LANKAN SINGLE OUTRIGGER, SAILING  DHONI 

 

GOAN KOuNKAN 

RATNAGIRI 

MADAGASCAR -PIROGUE WITH DOUBLE OUTRIGGER AND SAIL

KENYAN DOUBLE OUTRIGGER WITH SAIL

SAILING EAST TO PACIFIC AND SOUTH AMERICA USING OUTRIGGER CRAFT

SOPHISTICATED PRAO OF PHILIPPINES – VERY COMMON AND LIKELY HOMEOF THE DOUBLE HULLED MULTI- SAILED FOR COMMERCE AND FISHING 

A PARAW WH 2 OUTRIGGERS IN PORT MORESBY PNG with a 2  hulled so called

Modern CATAMARAN to left

 

VANUATU VAKA  WITH CLAW   SAIL    WITH UNIQUE SHELTERED HOUSING BETWEEN  HULL AND OUTRIGGER AND EQUIPPED WITH CLAW SAILS – UNIQUE TO MELANESIA –PNG, SOL. VAN, FIJ.

VANUATU VAKA

FIJI VAKA

  

THE UNIQUE LAKATOI OF PNG AND CELEBRATION IN NEW PARLIAMENT HOUSE.

YAP, MICRONESIA VAKA

 COOK ISLAND VAKA

MARU MARU ATUA

MARU MARU ATUA AT RAROTONGA

FIJI HARBOUR

Above Deck Cabin

Below Deck hatch

MAORI COMPASS

VAKA CREW

DOUBLE HULLED SAILING VAKAS

TAHITI

HOKOLEUE HAWAII DOUBLE HULLED TWIN MASTED

RAPA NUI EASTER Is

DOUBLE HULLED REED SHIP ON TITICACA LAKE PERU SOUTH AMERICA

Double Hulled Reed Boat of ORU People in Lake Titicaca with sail PERU

OR THE KON-TIKI

THEORY  

going  the other way anyone ?