The last wooden boat of Bengal.

One of the beautiful heritage of Bangladesh is Boat. With 60 percent of the country enmeshed by a massive network of river deltas, Bangladesh has the largest traditional wooden fleet of inland boats but thousands of wooden sailing boats, rowboats, barges and dugouts whose design date back 3000 years are losing its importance and demand due to rapid urbanization, and economic growth. In 1980, cheap diesel imported from China started being used as inboard engines for the riverboats and from wooden boats to steel boats. It also means we lost the marvelous and unique rigging of the boats.
However, in 1994 Runa Khan and Yves Marre became enamored with old-world technology and decided that Bangladesh’s boat heritage needs to be preserved for future generations. This is the largest living heritage of Bangladesh which they built according to the thousand years old technics of Brahmaputra carpenters in 1997. And this is the largest wooden hull that still sailing in Bangladesh.


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