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The baurua was a traditional
sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...
proa Proas are various types of multi-hull outrigger sailboats of the Austronesian peoples. The terms were used for native Austronesian ships in European records during the Colonial era indiscriminately, and thus can confusingly refer to the do ...
of the
Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...
. They are considered to have been the most sophisticated of the Austronesian sailing vessels. A 100-foot baurua was built in 1939.


See also

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List of multihulls Types * catamaran = two symmetric hulls * proa = two asymmetric hulls, reverse-shunting (interchangeable bow/stern) * trimaran = three hulls * quadrimaran = four hulls * pentamaran = five hulls Pre-modern Austronesian * ʻalia * Amatasi * B ...
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Wa (watercraft) ''Wa'' are traditional sailing outrigger canoes of the Caroline Islands, Palau, and Yap. They have a single outrigger. They are similar to the '' sakman'' of the Northern Marianas. Design and construction ''Wa'' are proa — vessels with ide ...


References

Multihulls Gilbert Islands {{sailing-stub