The small boat is the pride of fishermen

The object that you see in this post is one of the tools to catch fish in the ocean which is used as transportation for fishermen. The purpose of fishermen here is a profession for someone whose job is to catch fish in the ocean.

For the fishing community, naming this object as a boat or a small boat made of wood and then mixed using a simple tool.

For the people of Aceh, especially the coastal community or who live in the region are very capable of creating this small boat using simple tools without using sophisticated tools today.

✺ The definition of a little boat

As stated above, this small boat is a means of transportation for fishermen that is used as a tool to catch fish and others sourced from the ocean.

In general, this small boat is very well known by all people who are in the oceanic or coastal areas, in general this small boat is very important in terms of the operation of special fish such as mid-ocean reef fish, whose territory plays in 500 meters of water depth.

While other tools besides small boats are also equipped by other tools such as a series of hooks or Acehnese people say Aseit or Rawee.

✺ Material for making small boats

When you see the physicality of this small boat made of iron or other stenlise material, but actually the basic material for this small boat comes from specially selected forest wood.

Material or wood for this small boat material is often used making materials often used Mane wood trees that are decades old, then the wood material is divided into boards with a size of 5 cm. The wood which has become a plank is dried in the sun and smeared with special oil for 1 month.

After entering the day limit that has been set then form it manually using traditional tools such as Jeumeurat, Peuliung and other tools that support the process of making a small boat.

After the mold or shape is complete, the small boat will be filled with burlap along with finished resin, then coated with zinc which is arranged and processed regularly so that a beautiful little boat is formed.

✺ Boat size

In general the fishermen created this small boat measuring 15 meters long and 5 meters deep and 2 meters wide. This size is specifically designed for a capacity of 6 or 7 people. For fishing communities use this means of transportation in catching fish to the border sea and sometimes in the reef area to the east of Lhokseumawe City, sometimes the operation distance is to the Malaysian or Thai sea border.
The small boat is equipped with two engines namely a road engine and a lamp engine, the engine used is also a new output engine whose brand type is FUso with other engine attributes.

So by using this new output engine, the fishing community traveled to the destination mentioned half a day and returned half a day. In general, they will return home once a week, meaning they carry out their daily activities a week at sea and 3 days on land.

That is a glimpse of the small boat that is the pride of the coastal fishing community in Aceh, hopefully they will continue to be enthusiastic in carrying out their daily activities. Thank you very much.