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Model of Malay outrigger canoe. . 



According to Folkard, this type of boat has probably been used for 

 several thousand years. He supposes Pliny to refer to them. Anson, 

 in his voj'ages, speaks of their speed in extravagant terms, declaring 

 that they sail 30 miles an hour. Observations taken by British 

 officers showed them to have a speed of 20 miles an hour. Admiral 

 Wilkes, of the United States Navy, speaks of the speed of similar 

 boats as inconceivable. They are used by the Malays in the Straits 

 of Malacca and are of the same type of outrigger canoe as that 



FIG. 80. MALAY OUTRIGGER CAXOE. 



used by the natives of Ceylon. They are among the swiftest boats 

 known. 



The model represents a long and narrow double-ended canoe, the 

 bottom formed of a pointed dugout log upon which is a superstruc- 

 ture of vertical planks sewed to the log by coir twine and rising some 

 distance above it, having strongly raking square ends. The canoe 

 is provided with two outriggers at the ends of which is a balance 

 log which prevents the boat from upsetting. The rig consists of a 

 single mast, upon which is set a large square-headed lugsail. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length over all, 25 feet 3 inches; inside 

 width at top, 9 inches ; depth, 2 feet 4 inches ; length of balance log. 

 16 feet 6 inches; outriggers, outboard, 7 feet; mast above gunwale 

 (to cap) 12 feet 7^ inches; yard, 17 feet 3f inches; paddles, 6 feet 

 -3 inches. Scale of model, 2 inches equals 1 foot. 



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