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Double canoe of Mailu Island,close off the eastern end of the south coast.Used mainly for trading. Dugout hulls; the main hull larger the somewhat smaller hull serving as an outrigger.Hulls almost round in cross section; center hewn out.Sides raised with vertical planks to form washstrakes,and ends closed off with breakwaters; often carved;washstrakes and breakwaters lashed to dugout.Caulked with scraped inner bark of a special tree. Canoe ends bluntly pointed. Hulls set ca. 1.2-1.5m apart;multiple transverse poles connect the 2 hulls,passing through holes in the washstrakes. Poles extend outboard on the main hull. Planking laid atop the poles; portable shelter might be placed on the platform; fireplaces at either end. Rudder lashed to one of the poles near the stern. Mast lashed to bracing along inner side of the main hull; stayed fore-and-aft from outrigger hull. So-called crab-claw sail raised by a halyard rove through a hole in the masthead, and secured about midway along one yard close to the mast.Lower end tacked at foot of mast. Yards as long as 13,5m along both sides of sail; these bend inward at the top.Mat sail made in vertical strips with deep curve at the top. Sailed with outrigger hull to windward.Rowed when becalmed, poled in shallows.Crew of 6. Most 9-10.6m long.

Papua New Guinea 2009;K6.00;SG?
Source:A. Haddon, John. Hornell: Canoes of Oceania.1937.Volume II. Dictionary of the world’s Watercraft from Aak to Zumbra.