PLUTA Romania timber raft.

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The pluta is a means of water transport for people or material goods, but especially for transporting the wood from which the pluta is made.
The raft consists of several logs or tree trunks, fixed together, which float on the water without possessing, like the steamship , an autonomous means of locomotion, being transported by the water current.
In Germany  a better known route is the one on the river Isar. Today this means of water transport is becoming more and more attractive for tourists.
In  Romania, the most famous route was on the Bistrta  river , and there is also a literary  work called "Plutașii de pe Bistrița". Today you can also meet some rafts with oars, sails, or motor, equipped with a rudder, but normally a raft is carried by the current of water.
In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl, practically demonstrated, crossing the Pacific Ocean with the  KON TIKI  raft , the theory that supported the American origin of the Polynesians. He managed, in one such raft trip, to sail from Peru , on  the Pacific, 7,800 km to Raroia-Atoll, in the east of the island of  Tahiti .
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“Pluta“ Generic term for a raft in Bulgarian she is called “phita”, and in Romanian “pluta”,
On some in Romanian, the logs were laced together with freshly cut branches of a fir tree, making the raft supple; raft in 2 sections, one behind the other; steered from both the bow and stern.

Source: Aak to Zumbra a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.
Romania 1947 1L sg1893, Scott? 1948 1L sg1934