Indigenous Boats

The dugout canoes of Austronesia fall into four general configurations: the simple, single-hull dugout (about which little has been written)...

A few weeks back I wrote about the bark canoes of Australia's Arafura Swamp , noting that the design was unique to that area. Bark canoe...

D ozens of rig types have been identified in Austronesian maritime cultures (see this post for an illustration showing a large selection) --...