TULAGI EXPRESS and CORI dugout canoe

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TULAGI EXPRESS and CORI dugout canoe

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Jan 08, 2018 7:51 pm

The stamps issued by the Solomon Islands issued for CAPEX '96 International Stamp Exhibition, Toronto, showing different methods of mail transport; dugout canoes, postman with bicycle, post van and the launch TULAGI EXPRESS.

Of the TULAGI EXPRESS I have not any information other than that she was used by hotels on the Solomon Islands for the transport and sightseeing of the guests. On the internet I can’t find any information on her...

The 40 c shows on the beach a dugout canoe, and under power of an outboard motor an other dugout canoe offshore. Both canoes do not have an outrigger, so most probably it are “cori” dugout canoes of which the Aak to Zumbra a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft gives:
Term given to a dugout canoe of New Georgia Archipelago, Solomon Islands, especially on Marovo Island.
In adzing the hull, lugs are left to which ribs are lashed and on which thwarts are set; round in cross section. Similar peaked-up ends.
When sailed, mast either placed into a largo bamboo segment lashed to the thwarts and to a rib on the bottom, or the mast steps through a thwart and in a residual socket on the bottom. Sets a triangular sail with the apex down. Also paddled, employing a T-grip or a circular handle.

Solomon Island 1996 40c and $1.45 sg 856 and 859, scott 824 and 827
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