ART
BEAUTY & WELLNESS
CRAFT
CULTURE & HISTORY
ENTERTAINMENT
ENVIRONMENT
FOOD & DRINKS
REVERSE ENGINEERING
SCIENCES
SPORTS
TECHNOLOGY
WEARABLES
English
Ruea Kap Maphrao (Coconut-Husk Sailboat) — a Flat-Bottomed, Pointed-Bow Hull of Coconut Husk, a Leaf Sail on a Bamboo Mast Set Amidships, and a Thin Bamboo Rudder; Raced on the Wind When the Waters Rise
เรือกาบมะพร้าว (ruea kap maphrao, coconut-husk boat) is a folk toy: a coconut husk is the hull, with a sail like a sailboat and a rudder so it sails with the wind. Children make them in the rainy season or the rice-planting season, when the rivers and canals run full.
This blueprint makes a real ruea kap maphrao following the source.
Beginner
About 30 minutes
Instructions
1
1
Parts
Parts
Loading Jupyter Notebook...
2
2
Toy sailboats, before it
Toy sailboats, before it
The banana-sheath boat is made from banana sheath; the coconut-husk boat is made from coconut husk and also has a rudder.
3
3
Read from the source
Read from the source
"A coconut husk is used as the hull, with a sail like a sailboat and a rudder, so that it sails along with the wind." (Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, author not named, CC BY 4.0)
4
4
Hull
Hull
Cut a piece of coconut husk to the width you want with a knife, and shape it with a flat bottom like a boat hull and a pointed bow.
Materials for this step:
Coconut1 pieceTools needed:
Knife5
5
Sail
Sail
Shave a bamboo stick and thread the sail onto it, using toddy-palm leaf, tong khuang leaf or other leaves. Push the pointed end of the bamboo firmly into the middle of the hull.
Materials for this step:
Bamboo Poles1 pieceTools needed:
Scissors6
6
Rudder
Rudder
Shave thin bamboo and push it into the stern as a rudder.
7
7
Real images
Real images
Drawings of the ruea kap maphrao (Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, author not named, CC BY 4.0)
8
8
How to play
How to play
Float the boats on a river or canal and race to see whose sails fastest and furthest.
9
9
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting the ruea kap maphrao.
Flow
Loading...
10
10
History and limits
History and limits
Coconut-husk boats are rarely made today. Take care with the knife and scissors.
Source: Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Traditional Objects of Everyday Use database, "เรือกาบมะพร้าว", author not named (CC BY 4.0 licence).
**Limits** The source gives no sizes. The illustrations are drawings. The Coconut product line is the whole fruit; the part used is the husk.
Related Blueprints
These blueprints share knowledge with this one — techniques, materials, or principles that connect them in the learning graph.
CC0 Public Domain
This blueprint is released under CC0. You are free to copy, modify, distribute, and use this work for any purpose, without asking permission.
Support the Maker by purchasing products through their Blueprint where they earn a Maker Commission set by Vendors, or create a new iteration of this Blueprint and include it as a connection in your own Blueprint to share revenue.