Long Boat

Long boat is a well known term for the boat that are being used by fishermen and people in Papua area. This kind of boat has length about eight meters and its width is about one meter. Fishermen use this boat to catch fish, shrimp, squid, and sometimes jelly fish. Another kind of use for this type of boat is for transportation between places or islands in there. Some or even most of the long boat currently use engine, so that it becomes well known as the boat. In the past times before the use of machine the boat was just driven by using the hand row. That's why it will take too long in the past to reach another places compared to nowadays. What you see here is the long boat that was sailing near Babo District, Bintuni Bay, West Papua. The river is going to the sea or the bay, but this long boat sailed in reverse direction against the sea, which meant that the boat sailed to upper reaches of river.