Then, dozens of stout-bodied men shouldered-do mine and draw solid objects that ends looked up into the sky. Then, after struggling for some time, Phinisi it was floated, then proceed with the installation of seven screens at the two towering poles.
Phinisi, for sailors Nusantara is a special ship. "Drowning and crushed can, but this ship can not be reversed," said Muslim Baso, boat maker from the village of Ara - approximately 1 kilometer from TanahBeru. Uniquely, the experts pinisi boat maker never used scales for measuring tools especially to make a boat. "Usually we make use feeling and vision," said the man born in Ara, 1946, it. Without any scientific explanation, though not at the thick wood, pinisi always be balanced float on water
The most fundamental difference between making and shipbuilding pinisi modern West is its technology. When Westerners make a boat from the first frame new walls, making traditional pinisi starting with a new first wall after that case.
All the techniques and rules of old boat building ever recorded by the name of Jaya Langkara. According to the elders in Ara, the book was never borrowed the Dutch and until now has not been returned. The book contains rules laying boards porch boards and other basic rules. Making this pinisi boat, by local residents, often referred to as the ruling. In addition, the Bugis also have laws shipping and trade that were prepared by Ammana Gappa whose name was immortalized on an expedition cruise pinisi to Madagascar.
Pinisi, the ship which is still widely used to sail the ocean archipelago, it has a long history. "Pinisi was not just a livelihood, but our cultural traditions," said Muslim, who from childhood been familiar with pinisi. His family is hereditary boat maker that had wandered into the various islands to make a boat.
Therefore, making pinisi is ingrained in his body. Procession of manufacture, for Muslims, not just technique, but has become the art of "Making pinisi it should not be indiscriminate," said Muslim. From wood to launch searches to go through several rituals penting.Untuk looking for wood materials, should be looking for a good day. "Usually falls on the fifth and seventh month running," said Muslim. Figures 5 (naparilimai dalle'na) means the provision already in hand. While the number 7 (natujuangngi dalle'na) means always can sustenance. After to-day well, then foreman called "retainer" to lead the search of wood.
Trees to be felled should also not arbitrary. Must be held a special ceremony to exorcise the wood dwellers. Typically, a chicken as an offering to be sacrificed to the spirit. Cutting the wood must also be determined in accordance with the direction of wood fibers, for strength is guaranteed.
Another ritual was also performed during the laying of keel. When cutting, the hull must be placed facing the Northeast. Keel beam front is a symbol of man, while the back as a symbol of the female. After dimantrai, part of which will be cut is marked with a chisel. Cutting is done with a chainsaw should be done at once without pause.
The tip paid off that has been cut also should not be touching the ground. When the beam front has been broken, pieces that had to be rushed to be discarded into the sea. Pieces that become the object used as a symbol against disaster and as a husband who is ready to go to sea for a living. Medium beam hull pieces are stored in the back of the house, described as sailor's wife who faithfully waited for her husband to go home and bring good fortune.
