Bigiw is a smalldouble-outrigger sailboat native to the islands ofMindanao (particularly in theIsland Garden City of Samal),Visayas, andPalawan in thePhilippines. It is used for personal transport or small-scale fishing and can hold one to three people. It is traditionally propelled by sails and steered with a single oar, but is commonly motorized in modern times. It can also be paddled. The sail type used is predominantly triangularcrab claw sails (banog pindang), but it can also usespritsails ortanja sails.
Bigiw is similar to thevinta and other small Philippine outrigger boats (bangka), but differs in that its prow and stern are not open or covered by flat decks but is uniquely knife-like and sharply-pointed. They are named after thebigiw, the local name forneedlefish, due to its shape.[1][2][3]
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