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The links between seafaring and outrigger boats in the Philippines extend through to political life, in which the smallest political unit in the country is still called "barangay" after the historical balangay outrigger boats used in the original migrations of the first Austronesian peoples across the archipelago and beyond.
Multihull ships are also derived from outrigger boats. [2] In an outrigger canoe and in sailboats such as the proa, an outrigger is a thin, long, solid, hull used to stabilise an inherently unstable main hull. The outrigger is positioned rigidly and parallel to the main hull so that the main hull is less likely to capsize.
The term ama is a word in the Polynesian and Micronesian languages to describe the outrigger part of a canoe to provide stability. Today, among the various Polynesian countries, the word ama is often used together with the word vaka (Cook Islands) or waka or va'a (Samoa Islands, Tahiti), cognate words in various Polynesian languages to describe a canoe.
Model of a wa, a single-outrigger vessel, from Woleai in the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) A single-outrigger canoe is a canoe with a slender outrigger ("ama") attached by two or more struts ("akas"). This craft will normally be propelled by paddles. Single-outrigger canoes that use sails are usually inaccurately referred to by the name ...
Bob Hobman is a British-Australian sailor known for his recreation of ancient maritime journeys. In 1984, he led an expedition to sail an outrigger boat from the Philippines to Madagascar across the Indian Ocean to replicate the voyage of Neolithic humans.
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.
Shunting technique on a single-outrigger double-ended kaep from Palau. The entire rig is moved to the other end of the boat, and the prow becomes the stern and vice versa. The need to propel larger and more heavily laden boats led to the increase in vertical sail. However this introduced more instability to the vessels.
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. Walaps have a lee platform.