Traditional wooden fishing boat

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Fishing boat or wooden boat

The picture you see in this post is one of the fishermen's transportation tools that are used by every freelance fisherman in catching fish in the high seas.

For the people of Aceh in general, especially those on the coast of Aceh such as Lhokseumawe City, it has become one of the traditions in fishing in the high seas and even on their journey to the borders of neighboring countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, and other neighboring countries that are considered to be borders on Indonesian territory alone.

In general this wooden ship is often referred to as Bout Meulaôt or a boat used to catch fish in the sea, lake, or river. Various types of ships are used in commercial fishing, sports, and recreation that are often utilized by every community living on the coast of fishermen.

This is often explained by every marine expert or based on the OAF, in 2008 there were at least four million commercial fishing vessels within Indonesian territory. Then there are about 1.3 million ships that have the deck exactly as you can see in the picture in this post

According to data from the maritime ministry they say that almost all ships have been mechanized, and 40 thousand of them weigh more than 100 tons while others are recorded as traditional fishing gear. Then nearly two-thirds of the four million ships are traditional fishing vessels of various types, while the equipment used to become the main source of shipping is driven by sails and oars and detailed explanations have been reviewed in previous posts.

This wooden fishing boat is a fishing boat that has been modified with sophisticated equipment, but the material or construction of this wooden boat construction is still sourced from selected wood such as teak, or other selected wood that has been recognized for its quality.

While the tools used for power walking are already using sophisticated machines like sailors that have been sophisticated. But the fishing gear that is used still relies on trawl yarn that has been processed by marine experts about the form and other mechanisms.


The length and width of traditional wooden fishing boats

The size of wooden ships in the last few years has been included in the proper category for open sea transportation. The length of this wooden ship measures 30 meters while its width reaches 10 meters, and its height reaches 13 meters.

This wooden boat is also equipped with a fishing gear that has been modified in such a way as to form a prominent or straight length measuring 1000 meters and a depth of about 350 meters, this fishing gear is referred to as a traditional trawler for fishing on loose waters.

Then on this wooden boat there is also one main captain or in the language of the local community referred to as Pawang Laot, and assisted by one of the crew as the second skipper, then this wooden ship is equipped with 100 crew members as workers when performing operations. Each wooden boat crew has their own main work working in groups in the wooden boat.

In the implementation of the process of fishing in the high seas always rely on good cooperation, so that each implementation in these activities always succeed in efforts to catch fish.

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