Human-powered watercraft

thumb|right|A B.N. Morris Canoe Company wood-and-canvas canoe built approximately 1912

thumb|upright=1.35|Colourised engraving of a French galley (27 pairs of oars) built according to the design that was standard in the Mediterranean from the early 17th century; Henri Sbonski de Passebon, 1690|alt=A two-masted ship with several sails set A galley is a type of ship optimised for propulsion by oars. Galleys were historically used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe. It developed in the Mediterranean world during antiquity and continued to exist in various forms until the early 19th century. It typically had a long, slender hull, shallow draft, and

thumb|Kayak paddlers in Pakistan snow training at [[Hanna Lake]] thumb|right|Inuit|Inuk [[seal hunter in a kayak, armed with a harpoon|alt=Man sitting with legs covered in a boat that tapers to a point at each end holding long, pointed, wooden pole]] thumb|Interior 360 degree photosphere of a kayak at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Click for an immersive 360 degree view.thumb|Kayaking in the Upsala Glacier in [[Los Glaciares National Park]] Kayaks are often used to get closer to marine animals, such as sea otters.|thumb|alt=Photo of a person sitting in a boat holding a

alt=A black-and-white photo of what appears to be a cool, gray day. Four people, indistinct, sit in the middle of a long, thin boat, the gondola, moving to the right. High on the stern (left) stands a man with both hands on a long oar, which disappears into the water to his rear and slightly to his right. In the distant background, across the calm water, the buildings of Venice can be made out, standing in the mist.|thumb|A gondola ride The gondola (, ; , ) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. It is typically propelled by a

Nordic ships of the Viking Age

thumb|Water bike on Lake St. Clair (Michigan) thumb|Pedalo at the Stockholm Exhibition (1930)|Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 thumb|A paddle boat on Geneva Lake (Wisconsin). thumbtime=3|thumb|right|Boats in Japan celebrating spring with a swan pedalo accidentally running into a row boat, 2022 thumb|Pedalos in Brazil (called pedalinhos) thumb|Human-powered watercraft: aqua-cycle water trikes in the [[Pacific Ocean with Diamond Head, Hawaii in the background]] thumb|Paddle boats on the Inner Harbor in [[Baltimore]]

thumb|David Vinckboons: Landscape with skaters (cca. 1615), 17th century boer type iceboatsthumb|right|Boer Ice sailing in the Netherlands in 1938.

type of ship similar to galley from Nusantara

type of oared ship from Moluccas

340px|right|thumb|A carving of a birlinn from a sixteenth-century tombstone in MacDufie's Chapel, Oronsay, as engraved in 1772. The birlinn () or West Highland galley was a wooden vessel propelled by sail and oar, used extensively in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland from the Middle Ages on. Variants of the name in English and Lowland Scots include "berlin" and "birling". The Gaelic term may derive from the Norse byrðingr (ship of boards), a type of cargo vessel. It has been suggested that a local design lineage might also be traceable to vessels similar to the Broighter-type boat (f

Large-sized kora-kora or karakoa

thumb|A portion of Miller Atlas|Miller atlas, showing a galley, [[dhow, and Ottoman ghurābs of the Arabian sea.]] Ghurab or gurab is a type of merchant and warship from the Nusantara archipelago. The ship was a result of Mediterranean influences in the region, particularly introduced by the Arabs, Persians, and Ottomans. For their war fleet, the Malays prefer to use shallow draught, oared longships similar to the galley, such as lancaran, penjajap, and kelulus. This is very different from the Javanese who prefer long-range, deep-draught round ships such as jong and malangbang. The reason for t

thumb|300x300px|Kelulus as depicted in La Marina de Oriente (1740). Kelulus or kalulus is a type of rowing boat used in the Nusantara archipelago. It is typically small in size and propelled using oar or paddle. However, for long-distance voyages, this boat can be equipped with sails. It is not the same as prahu kalulis of the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago.