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Outrigger boats are various watercraft featuring one or more lateral support floats known as outriggers, which are fastened to one or both sides of the main hull. They can range from small dugout canoes to large plank-built vessels.
Armadahan - outrigger fishing boats from Laguna de Bay. [30] Balacion - a large outrigger sailboat of the Tagalog people in Laguna with three tanja sails. [31] Balangay - also known as barangay, were very large two-masted sailing ships made using the lashed-lug boatbuilding technique. They were used for ferrying cargo and sometimes as warships.
In ancient history, various vessels were used for coastal fishing and travel. [3] [obsolete source] A mesolithic boatyard has been found from the Isle of Wight in Britain [4] The first true ocean-going boats were invented by the Austronesian peoples, using technologies like multihulls, outriggers, crab claw sails, and tanja sails.
The vinta is a traditional outrigger boat from the Philippine island of Mindanao. The boats are made by Sama-Bajau, Tausug and Yakan peoples living in the Sulu Archipelago, [2] Zamboanga peninsula, and southern Mindanao.
An outrigger is a projecting structure on a boat, with specific meaning depending on types of vessel. Outriggers may also refer to legs on a wheeled vehicle that are folded out when it needs stabilization, for example on a crane that lifts heavy loads.
USA-17—a 90-foot-long (27 m) trimaran, type BOR90. A traditional paraw double-outrigger sailboat from the Philippines. A trimaran (or double-outrigger) is a multihull boat that comprises a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls (or "floats") which are attached to the main hull with lateral beams.
Karakoa is a type of balangay (Philippine lashed-lug plank boats). [3] It can be differentiated from other balangay in that they possessed raised decks amidships and on the outriggers, as well as S-shaped outrigger spars.
Sakman was a single-outrigger boat. Its basic design consists of a very narrow dugout canoe which served as the main hull, to which an outrigger was attached on one side. The main hull was typically around 30 to 40 ft (9.1 to 12.2 m) long, but only around 2 ft (0.61 m) wide and 3 ft (0.91 m) deep.