Friday, 9 July 2021

          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 ?












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