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Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:19 pm

CANGAIA: Aak to Zumbra a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft does not have anything under that name.

The stamp shows a double outrigger canoe with a stempost, so it is not a dugout.

In a fishing report on the East coast of Africa I found, that the CANGALA is a wooden planked boot , which has a more pointed bow with a rounded or pointed stern, and it is a flat-bottomed vessel and more agile than canoes.

The CANGAIAS are typical used by people from Nampula Province in Mozambique as a fishing craft, mostly powered by paddle or sail. As fishing vessel she spent an average of 7.0 – 7.4 hours at sea.
Crew 5-6.
Length ca. 4.59m.

She are called BOTI in Kenya and Tanzania, In Tanzania also called Dau.

On an outrigger model site on the internet I found a model the IBO which looks almost the same as the stamp, but the Aak to Zumbra book has nothing on her.

Mozambique 1982 12m sg 973, scott 840.
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