Naga Pelangi is a wooden junk rigged schooner of the Malay pinas type built using traditional lashed-lug techniques from 2004 to 2009 in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Finished in 2010, it is operated as a charter vessel in South East Asia.
The pinas Naga Pelangi in Langkawi, 2010
Naga Pelangi, after her circumnavigation sailing off Kuala Terengganu, 1998
The Naga Pelangi gobel figurehead
Naga Pelangi sailing butterfly
The pinas, sometimes called "pinis" as well, is a type of schooner of the east coast of the Malay peninsula, built in the Terengganu area. This kind of vessel was built of Chengal wood by the Malays since the 19th century and roamed the South China Sea and adjacent oceans as one of the two types of traditional sailing vessels the late Malay maritime culture has developed: The bedar and the pinas.
The original pinas was rigged with European fore-and-aft rig.
The pinas Sabar, (26.5 m LOD), the last original sailing pinas of Kuala Terengganu, 1980
The pinas Sabar in the museum of Kuala Terengganu, 1998
The Naga Pelangi, a 22 m (LOD) pinas built in 2009 on Pulau Duyong, sailing in Langkawi 2010