Word: ironwood
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...with a radiant succubus motif, and when I ask the legend behind it - in which a hunter is seduced and eaten by a beautiful spirit - Calvin perks up; he has never heard it either. Later, at a nearby Sekapan longhouse, 35-year-old Stephen George proudly shows me an ironwood dugout that can fit 93 rowers. But he only reluctantly shows me his favorite tattoo - a Chinese dragon on an inner thigh, where you'd expect an ancient tribal design...
...RAJA LAUT: With a name meaning "king of the seas" in Malay, Raja Laut is an ironwood schooner that plies the waters of peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Burma. Its six beautiful cabins accommodate up to 12 guests, who are waited on by a multiracial crew that could have stepped out of the pages of Conrad's Lord Jim (indeed, literature buffs can follow in the great author's wake, voyaging through Borneo, Brunei and Sarawak on an itinerary based on his travels). Trips can include spectacular diving, visiting deserted islands with steep karst formations worthy of a James Bond movie...
...always wanted the world to share her love of the archipelago. There was just one snag: hopping between Indonesia's 17,500 or so islands usually involved taking rickety local boats or squeezing onto impossibly crowded ferries. So she came up with Silolona, www.silolona.com-a two-masted ship of ironwood that she commissioned from the Konjo craftsmen of Sulawesi. Taking two years to build, the vessel is a replica of a phinisi, the type of sturdy cargo boat that plied Southeast Asian trade routes for centuries...
...love of the archipelago. There was just one snag: hopping between Indonesia's 17,500 or so islands usually involved taking rickety local boats or squeezing onto impossibly crowded ferries. So she came up[an error occurred while processing this directive] with Silolona, www.silolona.com - a two-masted ship of ironwood that she commissioned from the Konjo craftsmen of Sulawesi. Taking two years to build, the vessel is a replica of a phinisi, the type of sturdy cargo boat that plied Southeast Asian trade routes for centuries...
...John Hardy factory is 21st century, the John Hardy home could be the future?or at least the Hardy vision of a sustainable, luxurious future. The entire structure is built of recycled hardwoods, including old ironwood telephone poles. It appears to float above an organic garden, and the ground floor has no walls, allowing for an unobstructed view over endless rice paddies...