Waka

 

This is mine and Jed we made it out of four cardboard pieces. With one pencil and 

cut up a peace of paper. To make it sail and 3 pop-stick and glued all the stuff together and it

looked better then we thought it looks like. It could be on the water

but it cant sadly.

We chose this double hull waka because it look good and looked fun to make its not to hard or 

easy it was worth it.

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.