Sewn boat
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A sewn boat is a type of wooden boat which has its planks sewn, stitched, tied, or bound together with natural fibre rope tendons or flexible wood, such as roots and willow branches. Sewn boat constru
Halsnøy boat, detail of the bow.
The reconstructed "solar barque" of Khufu, Egypt, c. 2500 BC
Ferriby boat model and replica tools, Britain, c. 2000 BC
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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
Sewn boat
…and the seams are reinforced with fiberglass composite; the stitching may then be removed or may remain in place. Also related is the treenailed boat. Lashed-lug construction is used in the distinctive maritime technology of Austronesian peoples. Sewn boats start with the construction of the hull, or outside "shell" of the…
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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