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...

Beautiful curves on the sheer and outrigger booms on this Philippine banca. The booms are carefully chosen for their curves from the...

Reader Paul Wilson sent me a bunch of wonderful photos of boats from various parts of Asia which we'll looking at in this and the next ...

I shouldn't be blogging this weekend: I should be on a week-long canoe trip on the West Branch of the Penobscot River. But a bad back fo...

This is a continuation of the previous post on the Philippine banca , a wide class of double-outrigger canoes still in general use. 1. On...

Friend and contributor Capt. Rob Whitehurst sent me a bunch of photos of Philippine bancas that he shot in the 1980s on both sides of the Sa...