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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.
A Maranao kulintang ensemble Detail of okil carvings on a Sama-Bajau vinta. The rectilinear designs of the Sama were adopted and refined by the Maranao to decorate the torogan houses of the ruling dato class. The most prominent parts of the torogan are the panolong, the carved floor beams modeled after awang boat prows.
Lepa can be differentiated from other native boats in the region (like the djenging and vinta, which are also used as houseboats) in that the lepa does not have outriggers. The prow and the stern are also made from flat carved blocks of wood, and not posts or curving planks as in vessels like the balangay .
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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]
An Iranun pirate armed with a spear, a kampilan sword, and a kris dagger. The Sulu and Celebes Seas, a semi-enclosed sea area and porous region that covers an area of space around 1 million square kilometres, [1] have been subject to illegal maritime activities since the pre-colonial era [2] and continue to pose a maritime security threat to bordering nations up to this day.
In 1984, Hobman and a group began the expedition to sail Sarimanok, a 59-foot vinta outrigger boat, from the Philippines to Madagascar across the Indian Ocean to recreate how Neolithic humans might have made the crossing. The boat was created from a century-old tree by craftsmen on the island of Tawi Tawi in the Philippines.
Ibanag balangay (barangayanes) from the Cagayan River in Northern Luzon (c.1917) Illustration of an armed merchant biroko with tanja sails by Rafael Monleón (1890) "Balangay" is a general term and thus applies to several different types of traditional boats in various ethnic groups in the Philippines.