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Cheers,
Angel

 

So how would the boat stay upright in deeper water . . .

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Angel

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All that hunting action in such shallow water is probably only because of posing for the pic and not for hunting big turtles there at that time . . :idea:

 

Maybe it has a heavy stone keel. It helps stabilize it in the mud. Or it has an outrigger on the other side that is hidden from view.

 

It's not finished yet. The dugout has not yet been dug out. Too busy posing for pictures.

 

It certainly doesn't look finished: strange they would put it in the water at this stage. The exterior doesn't seem hollowed out to the proper hull thickness and the hull's beam would normally be widened by fiilling with hot water kept hot with heated stones so they can install thwarts. I saw a video of one in Louisiana that skipped the hot water treatment but that was an entirely different craft.

 

Here's the video . . . Pirogue Maker - 1948 Louisiana -

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Angel​

 

It is good to hear from you. God bless the Filipinos in their time of need.

 

That is definitely a bunch of camera hams....

 

Love that movie. I ran into it a couple of years ago, and I've watched it from end to end several times. It's kind of soothing, especially with its musical soundtrack.

Watching the cypress tree being felled makes me wonder if they laid a bed of springy branches to cushion its fall, so the trunk wouldn't shatter. But I have no idea how brittle a cypress trunk is. And the swampy ground may have been soft enough to avoid the problem anyway...

 

Nice, but that wasn't the one I remembered. It showed the carving of a very shallow boat paddled standing with a long single bladed paddle similar to those here -

http://www.louisianafolklife.org/lt/virtual_books/guide_to_state/comeaux.html

Here's the image I was looking at - such as it is -

 

Your link goes to the movie trailer, at least for me it does. This link goes to the 14 minute film...
http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=188

folkstreams.net is quite a site..thanks for posting it.

 

Thanks for the concern Hoyt. That storm is like a cross between a hurricane and a typhoon. More wind than water and just flattened out several cities and nearby provinces.

Now the living is walking among the dead. No homes, no food, no water. Even if they have money, there is nothing to buy. Most of the roads are impassable, hence the releif goods is slow to come.

We live in the Northern part but still the effect is felt. It felled down a tree more than a foot in diameter in my backyard, taking down the down the wooden fence. Now I have enough wood to build a boat!

 

Lets see, a nice dug out with bamboo out riggers and you have a bangka.

 

Hahaha! Not a bad idea:idea: It sits by the creek and I see some felled bamboos further down. Launching should be a bliss.

But I need a CNC router! I am too old for that "ax and adze" thing.

Seriously though, modern bankas use a log for the keel and bottom (dugout) then wood planking for the sides. It is illegal to cut trees over here so the practice is dwindling. Now is a good opportunity.

 

Wonderful Moment

Amazing! This is a priceless picture. A moment worth savouring...