Reed boat

A reed boat is a boat that is mainly composed of reeds. They are available with and without sails.

The highly porous structure of the grasses used gives the material a good boost. Over time, the grass also attracts water, however.

To build a boat of grasses each several stalks are tied together into a bundle. Two or three bundles are then shaped to the actual boat.

Lake Titicaca is still navigate with special reed boats of totora.

Thor Heyerdahl constructed two ships made ​​of papyrus, one from Berdi according to old models. The project group prehistoric seafaring also constructed some reed boats.

In addition to the reed boats Ra I, Ra II and Tigris Thor Hyerdahls there are at the present time, other reed boat expeditions to the experimental study of prehistoric transoceanic contacts. With the help of the project group " Experimental Archaeology " under Dominique Görlitz and Cornelia Lawrence as ABORA I and II ABORA expeditions in the Mediterranean, as well as the ABORA III expedition from New York eastward were carried out over the Atlantic. The expeditions suggest that there is a stone-age boat was possible to reach every corner of the world's oceans.

The settlement of Australia some 50,000 years ago by boat was checked experimentally.

• Maritime history
• Type of boat