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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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

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