DA NANG FISHING BOAT

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DA NANG FISHING BOAT

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:54 pm

The junk depict on the 20d stamp of the Da Nang area is a traditional Vietnamese boat, the origin of the type is obscure, and the boats have a woven bamboo bottom sealed with resins. Otherwise wooden planking is used. Others are built with a complete wooden hull.

The bamboo bottom is very resilience against the shock of beaching the vessel, the bamboo bottom has been regular replaced at least every 5 years, but is not expensive, bamboo is plentiful, and the crew can do it herself. Most of this boats are built by the owners and she are built in a small clearing near the beach. The building tools are very primitive and have been used for centuries. The junks are constructed from green lumber, crack will soon appear in the wood and seams opened. The frames are added last. The bamboo bottom is pressed into the upper hull.
She are designed as a fishing junk but can also carry cargo, when fishing is not possible due to the weather.
Fishing is done mostly with pair junks which tow astern a purse type net or a smaller circular net
Most are day fishers sailing from the port around 21.00 to 05.00 in the morning and returning between 15.00 and 19.00 where the fresh fish is discharged at the fish market.
The type of junk is tender and during heavier breeze conditions she heels dangerously and a hiking strap or board has to be used by the crew.
Nowadays she are more motorized.
The type when sailing has from 1 to three mast with a yard and boom, when the sails are not used the crew roll the sail around the boom. The yard and boom are mostly made of bamboo, the sails are mostly made of finely woven palm fibre, which have a short lifespan, but she are not inexpensive and light. When leaving port or entering sweeps are used.
The smaller type is open while the larger ones are fitted out with shelter cabins which are made of woven bamboo lath sealed and coated the same way as the basket bottom. Sometimes the junk has up to three cabins. When fishing this cabins are stacked together to give more working space to the crew.
When a family own the boat and live on board one cabin frame is attached to the gunwale, living accommodation is very simple with only straw mats as bunks. Others the crew is living ashore with their family.
In the 60s most of this junk were not fitted out with navigation lights and only carried a bamboo flare to indicate the position.
These junks often have a round basket boat on board for tending the net, not any lifesaving equipment or spare parts are carried on board in the 60s.
When she are fitted out with a diesel engine in the basket bottom junks, it is supported by thwartship members which in turn are secured to the more sturdy side planks of the frames.
The engine power is 5 – 20 hp.
For maintenance the junk is beached and sailing rig removed after she is capsized and the hull can be cleaned and re-caulked and re-coated with vegetable oil, when she is fitted out with a bamboo bottom the inside and outside are brushed with a bamboo brush where after she is resealed with compound made of ground bamboo and resin, then recoated with vegetable oil.

Dimensions: length 4.88 – 9.14m, beam 1.01 – 2.29m.
Crew 3 – 6.


Source: Junk Blue Book 1962.
Vietnam 1998 20d sg 1286, scott 1945.
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