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Paraw (also spelled parao) are various double outrigger sail boats in the Philippines. It is a general term (similar to the term bangka ) and thus can refer to a range of ship types, from small fishing canoes to large merchant lashed-lug plank boats ( balangay or baloto ) with two outriggers ( katig ) propelled by sails (usually a large crab ...
The Paraw Regatta Festival or Iloilo–Guimaras Paraw Regatta Festival is an annual festival held every third weekend of February in the Arevalo, Iloilo City, Philippines. Its main event is a sailboat race in Iloilo Strait that features the paraw, a Visayan double-outrigger sail boat. It is the oldest traditional craft event in Asia, and the ...
Hawaiiloa, a double-hull sailing canoe built as a replica of Polynesian voyaging canoes. The technology has persisted into the modern age. Outrigger boats can be quite large fishing or transport vessels. In the Philippines, outrigger boats (called bangka or paraw) are often fitted with petrol engines.
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Plan, midships section, and lines of a vinta [18] A paraw in Boracay. Like all ancestral Austronesian boats, the hull of the bangka at its simplest form had five parts. The bottom part consists of single piece of hollowed-out log (essentially a dugout canoe, the original meaning of the word bangka). [19]
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Location of Boracay in Aklan province of Panay Island Puka Beach on the northern shore of Boracay Boracay Island is located 0.8 kilometers (0.50 mi) off the northwest corner of the mainland Panay and belongs to the province of Aklan in the Western Visayas region, or Region VI, of the Philippines.
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