Austronesian vessels
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Austronesian vessels are the traditional seafaring vessels of the Austronesian peoples of Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar.
Both crab claw and tanja sails used by Javanese fishing boats (c. 1920)
Taumako single-outrigger tepukei, an example of the basic mastless crab claw sail
Motuan catamaran lakatoi with crab claw sails on fixed masts
Makassar padewakang with tanja sails on bipod masts
Lashed-lug boat
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Lashed-lug boats are ancient boat-building techniques of the Austronesian peoples. It is characterized by the use of raised lugs on the inner face of hull planks. These lugs have holes drilled in them
Austronesian vessels
…minorities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Hainan, the Comoros, and the Torres Strait Islands. They range from small dugout canoes to large lashed-lug plank-built vessels. Their hull configurations include monohulls as well as catamarans and outrigger boats (single-outrigger boats and trimarans…
Planks from one of the balangay burial boats (c.320–1250 CE) in the Butuan National Museum in the Philippines showing protruding lugs and the holes on the edges where dowels were inserted
Nydam boat (Denmark), showing frames which are lashed to cleats (lugs) on the hull planking
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