Padewakang

Prau used by Makassan for trepanging

Padewakang were traditional boat used by the Bugis, Mandar, and Makassar people of South Sulawesi. Padewakang were used for long distance voyages serving the south Sulawesi kingdoms.

Etymology

No-one quite seems to know the origin of the name padewakang, though some have suggested that it stems from Dewakang Island, an important navigational landmark between Sulawesi and Java. Dutch records from the 1735 mention letters from Sulawesi arriving in Batavia ‘per Paduakkang’.[1]

According to Horridge, the word “padewakang, paduwakang” (Sulawesi) and “paduwang” (Madura) have its roots from word wa, wangka, waga, wangga, and bangka of Austronesian languages. The term is associated with outrigger perahu or small perahu.[2]

Description

It typically weights between 20 to 50 tons, had one or two masts with tanja sails.[3] Like other traditional vessels of the archipelago, it is steered using 2 quarter rudders.[4] Between the end of the 16th century to early 20th century they routinely sailed for the coasts of northern Australia in search of teripang, armed with cannon of ancient origin, probably cetbang or lantaka. Padewakang were the biggest craft of South Sulawesi as trading vessel and as war fleets, used for hundreds of years sailing the seas between western New Guinea, the southern parts of the Philippines, and the Malayan peninsula. There is even a Dutch publication of padewakang under full sail in Persian gulf. They are used until the production stopped in favor of the famous Pinisi by the 20th century. The pinisi evolved from basic padewakang hull with fore-and-aft sails to its own hull model with indigenous "pinisi rig".[5]

Evolution to Pinisi

According to Horst Liebner, a Mandar maritime expert, pinisi sail originally mounted onto the hull of a padded boat and the like; however, when the sailors and craftsmen are increasingly aware of the way they are used, they selected only the palari (derived from lari - "to run") hull - a very pointed hull type and it is indeed the one that best suits the secondary sail.

This evolution takes place in several stages: The hull type is designed with more pointed and enhanced with some additional boards that causing the deck of the bow becomes lower than the main deck and the stern, and that the construction of the rolling beams seems to 'fly' behind stern boat (Konjo language : palari salompong ambeng rua kali); the next part of the stern deck (ambeng) is continued until the steering beams merge with it (palari salompong); and the last step is to increase the bow height so that the entire deck becomes straight.

This last type of hull is used until the pinisi boat is replaced with PLM (motorized sailboat) type. In the early 1970s thousands of pinisi-palari ships measuring up to 200 tonnes of cargo, the world's largest commercial sailing fleet at the time, had contacted all corners of the Indian Ocean and became the trading backbone of the people.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Nationaal Archief Nederland, 1.04.02.8207: 13
  2. ↑ Horridge, Adrian (1981). The Prahu: Traditional Sailing Boat of Indonesia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195804996.
  3. ↑ John, St. (1853). The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
  4. ↑ Zainun, Nazarudin (2015). Antropologi Dan Sejarah Dalam Kearifan Tempatan. Penerbit USM.
  5. 1 2 2004 Horst H. Liebner, Malayologist, Expert Staff of the Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Department of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia
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