Talk:Panga (skiff)

Discussion on the Skiff Talk page, leading to this article

Does anyone else agree that the Panga - with a distinctive name and characteristics - deserves a page of its own - with a link from skiff of course? Motmit (talk) 19:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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I would be in favor of a pangas page that is separate from skiffs. Motmit why don't you get it going? Mziebell (talk) 01:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I added a bit about its use in the Developing World, but there is much more to be said about its history and derivation. I can remember visiting an Indio fishing village in Salvador in the mid-1970s and watching the men drag their boat up onto the beach (on well-worn log rollers; a 10-year-old village boy had the job of grabbing the back roller and putting it under the bow as the boat advanced), above the tide. It was a wooden, flat-bottomed, narrow dory with a high sheer, perhaps 28 feet long, powered by a '50s-era 18 hp (!) Evinrude. These men went perhaps 15 miles out into the open Pacific every day in this boat to fish.

This design has a noble history; I hope some scholar will come here and do it justice. The current article places a kind of Florida gringo emphasis on it. -- Craig Goodrich 24.14.168.244 (talk) 02:42, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I took the liberty of making heavy revisions to the text based on information contained in several commercial websites. I regret that I could not find any report by either the World Bank or Yamaha documenting their roles in the development of the panga design. The June 25, 2010 of this article had a lot of good information from the Allmand website that was later cut. - Greg Vassilakos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greg christine (talk • contribs) 03:50, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

I think the term Panga is far more used as a definition for boats, maybe disambiguation of the article Panga would be better. SChalice (talk) 04:31, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Apparently common for drug running

According to the following article in MSNBC, these boats are often used to transport drugs and other contraband. Jonathan Lloyd, NBC Los Angeles. "$4 million worth of marijuana scattered on California beach". Retrieved 2013-03-18. Catrachos (talk) 18:00, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I believe the basic definition of this vehicle should include the use of it for the transporting illicit items. I made a new section for drug trafficking, I can only assume some crazy mod deletes it post haste.SChalice (talk) 04:27, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Is MSNBC a reliable source? Abiquaed (talk) 15:53, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Is MSNBC a reliable source? They tend to sensationalize a specific agenda. Abiquaed (talk) 15:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

What about the numerous other types of boats that haul drugs and other illicit goods? Abiquaed (talk) 15:56, 24 May 2024 (UTC)