NAGALAWA outrigger canoe

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NAGALAWA outrigger canoe

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Jul 08, 2012 9:48 pm

The NAGALAWA is a fast double-outrigger canoe used for line fishing and setting fish traps in Zanzibar and Pemba and on the adjacent African mainland coast.
Hull quite deep with a narrow but flattened bottom.
Plank washstrake pegged on.
Considerable overhang to the sharp cutwater; since early 1960s, freeboard might be increased forward by building up and extending the washstrake to form a raised flattened spoon bow (as seen on the stamp.)
When sailed, rudder attached by pintles and gudgeons to an almost vertical sharp stern.
Shark’s liver oil used on the bottom as a preservation and to reduce friction.
Some canoes have an oculi on the bow, and those with a disk-shaped prow have a motif painted on the bow.
Two 1.83-2.24m long booms attached to double-ended, ski-shaped floats that are 2-3m long. Booms set in middle third of the hull each crossing the hull horizontally; booms pierce struts that are secured by lashings; struts set vertically or obliquely and pass through the floats.
Floats recently modified so that when the craft heels over, they plane just below the surface.
Forward-raking mast stepped into a shoe nailed to the bottom of the canoe and stayed to the aft boom.
Quadrilateral lateen-type sail with short luff or cheap cotton bent to a bamboo yard; some held loose-footed to a boom.
The NAGALAWA may also be seen paddled or pooled, while now outboard motors are common.
Crew from 1 – 4; when sailing one person steers and another stands on the windward boom.
Reported lengths 3 – 14 m. widths 0.26 – 0.76m and depth ca. 0.7m, draught ca 0.46m.

Tanzania 2010 600k sg?, scott?

From Aak to Zumbra a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.
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