Modern day lakatoi at the Hiri Moale Festival, a modern celebration of the previous Hiri trade cycle.
Lakatoi (also Lagatoi) are multiple-hulled[1] sailing watercraft of Papua New Guinea.[2] They are named in the Motu language and traditionally used in the Hiri trade cycle.[3]
Lakatoi (whose literal meaning is three dugouts) are fashioned from two or more dugout logs fastened together to give stability and cargo-carrying capacity.[1] The two or more dugouts are joined by booms, with a platform built on top.[4] The sail is a crab-claw sail.[5] Horridge (2008)[6] discusses the rig and how the craft is manouvred.
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^"Motuan traders go west in their Lakatoi". II(8) Pacific Islands Monthly. 11 March 1932. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
^Pawley, A., & Pawley, M. (1998). "Canoes and seafaring" (PDF). The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society 1: Material Culture. Pacific Linguistics.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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