GHE NANG
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:42 pm
GHE NANG: It is the general term for a basket hulled fishing boat found as far as the province Nha-Trang, to Col des Nuages, but mostly found in the fishing harbours of the Bay of Da Nang. The GHE NANG was used primarily for net fishing in coastal waters.
The hull is woven from split bamboo; others have a bamboo bottom and planked sides.
Resilient, rounded with a keelless bottom. The GHE NANG can be easily beached.
On the plank-extended type, the planks are edge-fastened and secured to the stem and sternpost; stringers attached along the inside of the basket, and wooden pigs then driven through the planks, basket and stringer. The all-basket type has a split-bamboo gunwale. Frames or half-frames inserted.
The larger boats have movable decks.
To make the craft waterproof various compounds were used.
Some have a sliding rudder and a stemboard.
She were sailed or poled.
The stamp shows use a GHE NANG with three masts which sets lugsails made of woven fibre or cloth and on the bowsprit during light winds a jib.
The smaller type is about 1.5 metre long while the larger are with a length of 15 metre or more.
With so much sail she are very fast.
She are not more used in Vietnam, the few still around are used for tourist attraction and are motorized.
Vietnam 1989 30d sg1288, scot1947. 1999 7000d sg 2235, scott?
240 x 180 px
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Source: Sailboats of Indochina. Aak to Zumbra, a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.
The hull is woven from split bamboo; others have a bamboo bottom and planked sides.
Resilient, rounded with a keelless bottom. The GHE NANG can be easily beached.
On the plank-extended type, the planks are edge-fastened and secured to the stem and sternpost; stringers attached along the inside of the basket, and wooden pigs then driven through the planks, basket and stringer. The all-basket type has a split-bamboo gunwale. Frames or half-frames inserted.
The larger boats have movable decks.
To make the craft waterproof various compounds were used.
Some have a sliding rudder and a stemboard.
She were sailed or poled.
The stamp shows use a GHE NANG with three masts which sets lugsails made of woven fibre or cloth and on the bowsprit during light winds a jib.
The smaller type is about 1.5 metre long while the larger are with a length of 15 metre or more.
With so much sail she are very fast.
She are not more used in Vietnam, the few still around are used for tourist attraction and are motorized.
Vietnam 1989 30d sg1288, scot1947. 1999 7000d sg 2235, scott?
240 x 180 px
images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org
Source: Sailboats of Indochina. Aak to Zumbra, a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.