Indigenous Boats

In our previous post, we looked at details of outrigger design and construction in the Filipino outrigger boats known as bangkas . Here we...

The bangka -- also known as banca and  paraw -- is a double-outrigger boat  ubiquitous in the Philippines. According to one online dictiona...

In Fishing in Many Waters , James Hornell describes the practice of bonito fishing in the Maldives, including a description of the boats u...