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''Naga Pelangi'' (Rainbow Dragon) is a wooden junk rigged schooner of the Malay pinas type built from 2004 to 2009 in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. She finished to be fitted out in 2010 and is operated as a charter vessel in South East Asia by her owner. == Background == The Naga Pelangi was built for Christoph Swoboda of Germany by the craftsmen of Duyong Island in the estuary of the Terengganu river in the state of Terengganu on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.〔Duyong Dawn of a new ara, Dato' Wan Hisham Wan Salleh, Wan Ramli Wan Muhammad, 2006, p1/96ff〕 She is a Malay-style sailing boat with lines based on the traditional ''pinas''-design but finished to modern yacht standards. In Malaysia, these sailing boats are called “Perahu Besar”, (Malay: big boat).〔http://translate.google.com/translate_t?&text=Perahu%20Besar〕〔Duyong Dawn of a new ara, Dato' Wan Hisham Wan Salleh, Wan Ramli Wan Muhammad, 2006, p94〕 They were built for cargo and piracy and come in two types, the ''bedar'' and the ''pinas''.〔Duyong Dawn of a new ara, Dato' Wan Hisham Wan Salleh, Wan Ramli Wan Muhammad, 2006, p95〕 They are made of Chengal wood (Neobalanocarpus heimii), a heavy hardwood of the Dipterocarpaceae family growing only on the Malay peninsula,〔100 Malaysian Timbers, published by Malaysian Timber Industry Board, 1986, p16/17〕 the home of the globes eldest rainforest. These picturesque junk rigged boats had been plying the South China Sea for centuries and the last few were still used as sailing freighters in the 1980s. Swoboda had a ''bedar'' built by the same craftsmen in 1981, finished a circumnavigation with that boat (the original Naga Pelangi) in 1998 and after selling it he ordered a new vessel to be built - the ''pinas'' Naga Pelangi - in order to help keep this ancient boat building tradition alive.〔50 Years Malaysian-German Relations, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, p132/133〕 The Malays have developed an indigenous technique to build wooden boats. They build without plans, hull first, frames later. The planks are fire bent and joined edge on edge (carvel) using "basok" (wooden dowels) made from ''Penaga''-ironwood (Mesua ferrea). There is no European style caulking hammered into a groove between the planks: Before the new plank is hammered home, a strip of ''kulit gelam'' (Malay: paperbarks skin)〔http://translate.google.com/translate_t?&text=kulit%20gelam〕 of the Melaleuca species is placed over the dowels. This 1 – 2 mm layer of a natural material has remarkable sealing properties.〔Cargo Boats of the East Coast of Malaya, Gibson-Hill, C.A. (1949), JMBRAS 22(3), p106-125〕 It is an ancient and unique building technique, the origins of which might date back to the Proto-Malay migrations that colonised the archipelago thousands of years ago. Now the Naga Pelangi is operated by the owner in the eastern Indian Ocean, the Andaman Sea with a base in Langkawi island and in the South China Sea with a base in Kuala Terengganu. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Naga Pelangi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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