chas wrote:...not every variation on a rowboat or dory has a specific name.
I'm not sure how far you're going with the idea of "variation", here, and who's doing the naming (or not). I mean general boat designs, like skiff, dory, wherry, dinghy, skerry, faering, whitehall, scull, pram, weidling, shallop, currach, and so on. To boatwrights and boat fanciers they do indeed have specific names. You can bet on it. I'm running on the assumption that Thai boatwrights make similar distinctions, and was hoping that the term for the boat in question might be available. If you were to ask what the heck kind of boat this was...
...I could tell you it's a
tarai bune. Similarly I was hoping that there was someone here who might have the answer to my own dilemma, because you Chiffers are a wildly varied and often very knowledgeable bunch.
david_h wrote:Is it a plank thing sticking out the back or just that the raised up bit doesn't go all the way to the back ?
That's a good chunk of my curiosity. It looks to me as if everything below the raised sides is the actual hull proper, including the plank-like extensions. Overall it's a design concept that's quite a different animal from what I imagine when I think of "boat".
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