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Author(s): Sean McGrail, Lucy Blue, Eric Kentley, Colin Palmer, Seán McGrail
ISBN(s): 9780415297462, 041529746X
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 25.64 MB
Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 041529746X 
ISBN 13: 9780415297462
Author: Sean McGrail

This book sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent. A fascinating and accessible read for anyone interested in boats or the South Asian way of life, as well as ethnographers, maritime archaeologists and historians, Boats of South Asia covers recent, exhaustive fieldwork in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; and covers a vast array of traditional boats used in the sub-Continent today for fishing and other coastal, riverine tasks.

Boats of South Asia 1st Table of contents:

1. AIMS AND METHODS

  • The Boats of South Asia project

  • Maritime archaeology in South Asia

  • Maritime ethnography in South Asia

  • Recording a traditional boat

  • Further reading on documenting ships and boats

2. THE REVERSE-CLINKER BOATS OF BANGLADESH

  • Bangladesh weather

  • Sylhet District (Fig. 2.2)

  • Reverse-clinker planking

  • Type names

  • Earlier evidence for reverse-clinker boats

  • Fieldwork

  • Types of reverse-clinker boat

  • Documenting the boats

  • Boatbuilding

  • Boat operations

  • Discussion

3. THE REVERSE-CLINKER BOATS OF ORISSA AND WEST BENGAL

  • The maritime history of this coast

  • Early evidence for reverse-clinker vessels

  • Fieldwork

  • Building the patia

  • A model of an oared patia

  • Boat operations

  • The social context

  • The patia and other South Asian reverse-clinker boats

  • Why use reverse-clinker planking?

4. THE SMOOTH-SKINNED TRADITIONAL INLAND BOATS OF BANGLADESH

  • The boats

  • Typical boats

  • The boatbuilders

  • Construction method

  • Strake patterns

  • Conclusion

5. THE MASULA – A SEWN PLANK SURF BOAT OF INDIA’S EASTERN COAST

  • Historical and modern sources on the masula

  • Distribution and use

  • The boatbuilders

  • Types of masula

  • Masulas not used for beach seining

  • Propulsion and steering, beaching and launching

  • Decoration

  • Conclusions

  • Acknowledgements

6. THE MADEL PARUWA OF SRI LANKA – A SEWN BOAT WITH CHINE STRAKES

  • Features of the madel paruwa

  • Construction

  • Sewing

  • Fitting end boards and crossbeams

  • Propulsion

  • The outrigger paru

  • The paruwa in the Indian Ocean context

  • Acknowledgements

  • ANNEX: Other Boats with Hollowed Chine Strakes

7. THE VATTAI FISHING BOAT AND RELATED FRAME-FIRST VESSELS OF TAMIL NADU

  • The coastal region of southern Tamil Nadu

  • Early accounts of Tamil maritime activity

  • Fieldwork

  • Thoni (toni)

  • Kotia (kottiya)

  • Vattai

  • Vattal

  • Vallam

  • Plank-first and frame-first methods

  • Aims and research methods

  • Designing the vattai

  • Designing the thoni

  • Building the vattai

  • Boat operations

  • Discussion

  • An assessment of the fieldwork

  • Tamil maritime ethnoarchaeology and European nautical history

  • Future research

8. HIDE BOATS OF THE RIVER KAVERI, TAMIL NADU

  • Hide boats in southern India

  • The Hogenakal parical

  • Raw materials

  • Building the Hogenakal parical

  • Equipment

  • Propulsion and steering

  • Uses

  • Discussion

  • Future research

9. A HYDRODYNAMIC EVALUATION OF FOUR TYPES OF BOAT

  • Resistance prediction

  • The vattai

  • The vallam

  • The patia

  • The barki

  • Conclusions

  • Specific further reading

ANNEX I: GLOSSARY OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURAL TERMS

  • Skin Friction Coefficient (Cf)

  • Midship Area Coefficient (Cm)

  • Prismatic Coefficient (Cp)

  • Waterplane Area Coefficient (Cw)

  • Froude Number (Fn)

  • Longitudinal Position of the Centre of Buoyancy (LCB)

  • Longitudinal Position of the Centre of Flotation (LCF)

  • Height of Metacentre/Beam Ratio (BMt/B)

  • Beam/Draught Ratio (B/T)

  • Depth/Length Ratio (D/L)

  • Length/Beam Ratio (L/B)

  • Wetted Surface Ratio (WSA/V2/3)

  • Displacement/Length Ratio (V/0.001(L)3)

  • Residuary Resistance (Rr)

  • Total Resistance (Rt)

  • Wetted Surface Area (WSA)

ANNEX II: STABILITY

10. THE WAY AHEAD

  • Future research

  • A fundamental enquiry

  • Archaeological excavation in South Asia?

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