![]() ![]() Hull: totora reed Compliment: 4 Design: traditional (?) True seagoing ship and experimental and traditional vessels continue to be built providing modern examples of this fascinating vessel. It is clear that more work needs to be done on the design and construction of the vessels to make a Is connected to the river Amazon by a natural canal called the Cassiquiare canal. They could be constructed from reed gather locally at these sites, and the Venezuelan site also has the advantage ofĪ natural lake of pitch at Guanoco, near the Guanoco River, itself near the Gulf of Paria and the delta of the Orinocco. The mouth of the river Orinocco for travel to the Mediterranean. ![]() the mouth of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) for a voyage under Southern Africa and up to the Persian Gulf or Or low loader, but for tranoceanic voyages, it would be better if the vessels had a minimum size of around 100ft (30 metres) and were built at suitableĭeparture points e.g. Modern reedships seem to be build to a reduced size in order to facilitate construction in Bolivia and transportation either by shipping crate ![]() Guara boards could then be inserted through the timber raft so the vessel could be steered by raising and lowering the guara boards thus altering the centre of effort of gravity and effort on the sailsĪnd the use of three masts would also aid the steering of the vessel by raising and reefing or lowering the forward and rear sails respectively. The design might be improved, especially in larger vessels, by using a timber or balsa raft between two hulls (joined at prow and stern) which would strengthen the vesselĪnd also allow the cabin to be inserted lower down within the overall vessel. The reed ships typically consist of two large reed bundles lashed by a continuous cord to a smaller central bundle of reeds. Steering oars on the rear of the vessel often makes the stern fall off. Oars lashed to the side of the vessel instead of guara boards (dagger boards) inserted between the hulls. The disintegration of the stern of the vessels is the use of steering Iraq were formerly coated in a special mixture of bitumen, pitch and oil but no modern boatbuilders seem to have followed this practice,Įqually, ancient Egyptian vessels are shown with a special cord connecting the prow to the stern for reasons of support,īut again this practice seems never to have been followed leading to extra stress and sometimes disintegration of the vessel. Since then there have been various reed ship constructions with differing degrees of success, vessels in ancient Heyerdahl followed this up with RA2 in 1970 when he got boatbuilders from Lake Titicaca to fly over to MorroccoĪnd build the boat for him which crossed the Atlantic with more success. RA1 - this vessel was built in Morrocco by boatbuildersįrom lake Chad but the voyage was abandoned near Barbados. ![]() With the construction of Feathered Serpent by Gene Savoy in Peru and at the same time by anĪtlantic crossing by Thor Heyerdahl in a reed boat called Reed boatbuilding seems to have had what one might call a popular revival, beginning in 1969 Where in ancient times they reached giant proportions of some 495 feet according to Thor Heyerdahl. In Africa, reed boatsĪre still in use upon Lake Chad whilst reed boats have a long tradition in what is now southern Iraq Vessels are also still built along the Pacific shores of Peru for coastal fishing. Today by the Aymara and Uru boatbuilders on Lake Titicaca, high in the Andes of South America. Reed boatbuilding is an occupation which has a long tradition and is found kept alive ![]()
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