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Cool about the Wa. I got a ride on a catamaran once, in South India, when our final year class (high school) was there at a beach on a picnic. Asked the fisher
by vram22 9y ago
Cool about the Wa.
I got a ride on a catamaran once, in South India, when our final year class (high school) was there at a beach on a picnic. Asked the fishermen to let me hop on, and they did. I was sitting in the front, astride the log, with my legs in the water almost up to waist level. We went out to sea for a kilometer or two at least, then came back after a while. Good fun.
It was something like this, but narrower in the front:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Tamil_catamaran.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Tamil_ca...
- contingencies 9y agoInteresting. The multihull technique is essentially ascribed to the Austronesians but was first recorded in historic times by westerners visiting Tamil areas, possibly Sri Lanka. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur_ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur_ship too. There is some theory that certain early Roman ships were actually catamarans. This early patent from the 1870s describes a multihull: https://www.google.com/patents/US189459 https://www.google.com/patents/US189459
- vram22 9y agoCool. I saw this in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur_ship#Borobudur_ship_expedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur_ship#Borobudur_ship_... where it says that a British sailor created a reconstruction of that type of ship and sailed in it from Indonesia via Madagascar, and then around the Cape of Good Hope to Ghana. Reminded me of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki voyage :), which I had read about in a National Geographic article about the voyage some years ago.