Paddle boats

Paddle boats, also known as paddle boats, paddle is used to advance the ship, it is a long history, widely ship.
Paddle boats Origin
Initial human use canoe or raft a class there is no simple water-powered vehicles, downstream line, if you want to turn or bucking the trend, we must hand to the water. Later, the invention of the paddle, which is the extension of the human arm. With the paddle, people can sit in the water boat forward. If you want to increase the vessel's forward speed, it is necessary to increase the number of oars. Thus, a paddle boat in the Mediterranean Sea around the first developed.
Paddle boat types
There are many types of paddle boats, paddle in accordance with how much a single paddle boats, paddles boats, paddle boats and more. According to the length of the paddle, paddle paddle boats have short and long paddle paddle boats, dating back 5,000 years ago, the pyramid tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Qiepusi, there is a tomb of Pharaoh martyrdom boat burial goods, it is a long one configuration paddle paddle boats.
In accordance with the paddle paddle boats equipped with single, double and multi-layer paddle boats paddle boats. In the double-and multi-paddle board paddle boats, oarsmen sat horizontal layers of long benches on deck paddle. In the Aegean region, Crete, who is also one of the nation's first sailing, rowing boats they may have absorbed Egyptian and Phoenician shipbuilding technology. Cretan warships equipped with 44 oarsman, oarsmen sat upper level deck long benches on paddling. Phoenicians earliest construction of merchant ships and warships separated, and according to regional differences and sailing voyage distance, a ship built different purposes. And Phoenician warships is a double set of oars. And later developed more layers paddle boats.
Paddle boats Features
Paddle boats have the following characteristics: First, Hull slender, sharp front, so the front of the waves effect. The second is to promote paddle boat can be equipped with other tools, such as, paddle boat can be equipped with sails, as galleys. General paddle spinnaker on a sailboat is equipped to meet the wind when they can get a good speed.