While President Macron is the first head of state to visit a Friendship boat while in office, former US President Bill Clinton visited Friendship’s traditional malar, B613, in 2002. B 613 can be mentioned, it has the largest traditional wooden hull and sails. Still in use in the country.
About Friendship’s Cultural Preservation Program Friendship has been preserving Bangladesh’s 3,000-year-old river heritage of wooden boats for 20 years by preserving ancient designs through documentation, exhibitions, boat tours, and as handmade replicas made using the same methods. It has been preserved for more than a period of time. As original.
We work with the last remaining carpenters and artisans of the boat building trade to transmit their ancestral technical skills, protect their knowledge and ensure livelihoods to keep their art alive – this national heritage. With the additional objective of documenting and preserving.
Without this work, the boats that once plied the Brahmaputra and Ganges, and the technical knowledge of how to make them, are at risk of disappearing entirely.
