Kalulis is a type of traditional boat from eastern

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. It is mainly built in

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, Southeast direction from

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. It is mainly used for interinsular transport, but they are unsuitable for long haul voyages between

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, Sulawesi, and

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. It is also known as ''perahu kalulis'', ''ang kalulis'', ''kalulus'', and ''kulis''.

Description

These boats is fairly shallow and beamy, and rigged with

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on 1 or 2 masts, presumably in tripod mast. It is steered using double lateral rudders, and having a deckhouse. These boats are internally

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led and contain lugs on all the planks. In the past, they are lashed together using fiber through carved lugs on the plank interior, but this technique has been disappeared in Kei islands during 1940s. They are between 4.5 and 14 m in length, with beam-to-length ratio vari