outrigger

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A custom paint job on an outrigger canoe on the Ka’anapali coast.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

We ended up off the coast of El Nido, Palawan, island-hopping aboard an outrigger canoe-style bangka, despite my penchant for seasickness.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

The ngEHT and its orbiting outrigger should also be able to test Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, in the most extreme conditions ever, Doeleman says.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 17, 2024

He saw the veterans as descendants of the ancient CHamoru warfighters, who had taken on the Spanish conquistadors with slings in hundreds of sail-powered outrigger canoes, circling them at two to three times their speed.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2023

The most important transmissions were of New Guinea shell fishhooks, which spread far into Australia, and of New Guinea outrigger canoes, which spread down the Cape York Peninsula.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond