How to build a Build an Outrigger Sailing Canoe
The Bugis ethnic group of Sulawesi are famous for their maritime exploits. These exploits once included enough piracy to inspire our word "boogey-man" or "bogey-man". Today their huge fleet of wooden "Pinisi" ships carry freight all around the islands of S.E. Asia. Less known are their outrigger canoes. Here's one particularly cute example of the "Lepa-lepa". Syamsuryadi aka "Syamsu" built it in 1999 for fishing. It carries one person and is one of the fastest canoes in the village. "as fast as a motorboat". He keeps it on the beach across from his house in the village of Sapolohe on the outskirts of the shipbuilding village of Bontobahari, in Bulukumba district of Sulawesi, near Bira at the southern tip of the island. He kindly let me measure it and hopefully people all over the world will start building their own.
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