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Thursday, July 8, 2021
Waka
There are four types of waka’s in the world but seven names for the waka’s that tuned up in Aotearoa called Tainui, Te Arawa, Mātaatua, Kurahaupō, Tokomaru, Aotea and Tākitimu.
The double hull waka has a double spritsail rig and appears to be made of two canoes of different length and design lashed together. Atholl Anderson argues that the spritsail was the most likely type of sailing rig used by the Polynesian voyagers who made it in the 13th century.
Double hulled canoes used over long distances were generally shorter (about 20 metres). Such
Vessels were capable of travelling between 150 and 250 km a day. Tongans used the tongiaki and
Samoans the va’a-tele, and an outrigger called an amatasi.
A double hull is a ship hull design and construction method where the bottom and sides of the ship have two complete layers of watertight hull surface one outer layer forming the normal hull of
The ship, and a second inner hull which is some distance inboard, typically by a few feet, which
Forms a redundant barrier to ...
Each waka was built using two hulls (hollowed-out logs of giant kauri from the Herekino State Forest) with a substantial platform between them. The main structure consists of the two hulls and
six main crossbeams lashed together.