Outrigger boat
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Outrigger boats are various watercraft featuring one or more lateral support floats known as outriggers, which are fastened to one or both sides of the main hull. They can range from small dugout cano
Samudra Raksa ship, a replica of Javanese 8th century double outrigger vessel depicted in Borobudur bas relief. From 2003 to 2004 it sailed from Indonesia to Madagascar and to Ghana.
Single-outrigger canoes from Polynesia
A double-outrigger canoe from the Philippines
A bas relief of Borobudur ship, a double outrigger vessel depicted in 8th century Borobudur temple, Java, Indonesia.
Polynesian navigation
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Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific Ocean. Polynesians made contact with nearly eve
Outrigger boat
…Voyaging Society has two double-hull sailing catamarans, Hokulea and Hawaiiloa, and sails them between various islands in the Pacific using traditional Polynesian navigation methods without instruments. The Hikianalia and Alingano Maisu are other extant double-hulled voyaging canoes. The German linguist Otto Dempwolff…
Hōkūleʻa, a fibreglass-hulled replica of a Hawaiian double-hulled canoe sailing off Honolulu, 2009
Hawaiians sailing a double-hulled canoe, c. 1781
Marumaru Atua in Rarotonga, 2010.
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