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2. Outrigger boat - Wikipedia

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   Six-person outrigger canoes (or OC6) are among the most commonly used for sport use; single-person outrigger canoes (or OC1) are also very common. Two and four-person outrigger canoes are also sometimes used, and two six-person outrigger canoes are sometimes rigged together like a catamaran to form a twelve-person double canoe.

3. Canoe sailing - Wikipedia

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   In other regions like Hawaii, Tahiti, and New Zealand, outrigger canoes are generally restricted to sport sailing and racing. Modern sailing outrigger canoes are usually made from glass-reinforced and carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, with sails made from Dacron and Kevlar. Hōkūleʻa is a modern interpretation of a Polynesian voyaging canoe ...

4. Jukung - Wikipedia

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   The double outrigger jukung is but one of many types of Austronesian outrigger canoes that use the crab claw sail traditional throughout Polynesia. Whilst this sail presents some difficulties in tacking into the wind, actually requiring to jibe around, a jukung is superb in its reaching ability and jibe-safe running.

5. Crab claw sail - Wikipedia

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   It may have also caused the unique development of outrigger boat technology due to the necessity for stability once crab claw sails were attached to small watercraft. [3] Crab claw sails can be used for double-canoe , single-outrigger (on the windward side), or double-outrigger boat configurations, in addition to monohulls. [4] [5]

6. Walap - Wikipedia

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   The Walap is a traditional ocean-going sailing outrigger canoe from the Marshall Islands.. Walap from Jaluit Atoll, 1880 A tipnol from Rongerik Atoll (1947). It belongs to the Micronesian proa type whose main characteristics are: single main hull, outrigger-mounted float/ballast, and asymmetric hull profile.

7. Wa (watercraft) - Wikipedia

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   Wa in the Marshall Islands/Caroline Islands area, prior to 1911 Model of a wa from Woleai in the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan). Wa are traditional sailing outrigger canoes of the Caroline Islands, which also includes Palau and Yap. [1]