tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466695305125791022.post5385641688453737161..comments2024-03-13T08:16:23.560-07:00Comments on Indigenous Boats: The Moken KabangBob Holtzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05878339327766256094noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466695305125791022.post-52335434918554119732012-10-14T11:05:18.100-07:002012-10-14T11:05:18.100-07:00I've seen a few speculations, but I don't ...I've seen a few speculations, but I don't think historians or anthropologists have ever gotten a definitive answer for the reason behind the bifurcated bow on baidarkas or on the Hjortspring boat. (It certainly is visually appealing, however.)<br />I wonder if the lower arm of the bow acts like the bulbous bow on almost all large merchant ships.Bob Holtzmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05878339327766256094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466695305125791022.post-494754445664456292012-10-14T09:08:18.003-07:002012-10-14T09:08:18.003-07:00Interesting hull shape. I would like to suggest th...Interesting hull shape. I would like to suggest that the bifurcated structure at the ends could have some additional functions besides the symbolic and as a way to get back into the boat. I had taken a similar approach in a small kayak design, ten foot long built by a student of mine who wanted a small light weight boat. I modified a conventional dish shaped hull where the keel came up at the ends to meet the deck by running the keel more or less straight with just a bit of rocker and joining the deck to the keel with a vertical piece set back from the ends that when covered with a skin resulted in a bifurcated shape. The main advantage of this construct is to make the boat track better as well as giving it better speed by extending the water line length to the full length of the hull while at the same time minimizing the amount of extra wood needed for construction. The design also maximizes usable area on deck and reserve buoyancy for going over waves while maintaining an efficient hull shape below the waterline.Wolfgang Brinckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com