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The vinta (locally known as lepa-lepa or sakayan) is a traditional boat from the Philippine island of Mindanao. The boats are made by Sama-Bajau and Moros living in the Sulu Archipelago, Zamboanga peninsula, and southern Mindanao. It has a sail with assorted vertical colors that represents the colorful culture and history of the Muslim community. These boats are used for inter-island transport of people and goods. Zamboanga City is known for these vessels.
In 1985 the vinta Sarimanok was sailed from Bali to Madagascar to replicate ancient seafaring techniques.
Usage examples of "vinta".
The waiter last night, or a houseboy outside our hotel door could have overheard us, and a vinta could have gotten here in time to lay a trap.
Rick watched for the vinta sail, but before the craft was visible from his lower vantage point, Scotty called out again.
He throttled back a little, in order to keep a good amount of speed in reserve, and kept the MTB on the course he had planned, sweeping toward one end of the vinta line.
Across the vinta line, Rick could see a field of what appeared to be grain, separated by a street from a field of what was certainly corn.
Zircon and Scotty had moved another mile seaward as soon as the vinta was launched.
No vinta they had seen was big enough to serve as a prison, and there had been no sign of the boat the missing men had rented.
The boys pushed off in the vinta and paddled toward the east in order to get farther away from the guards before putting up the sail.
The first pirate vinta was nosing into the cove when two others came into sight.
The first vinta had reached the group and was standing only a few feet offshore.
Rick spotted a rifleman in the nearest vinta and sent a broadhead arrow at him.
The boys moved fast, grabbing the vinta before the retreating waves carried it away.
They grabbed at the vinta with their free hands and had to grip tightly to keep from being thrown as it rolled wildly.
Rick waited until the vinta was on the downward slope of the backwash from the shore, then went in headfirst.
The immediate admission of both thirteen-year-old Virginia and twelve-year-old Livia into the nearby Convent of San Matteo in Arcetri was apparently facilitated by the coincidence that the mother abbess, Suor Ludovica Vinta, was sister to a Florentine senator who had served as secretary of state under Grand Duke Ferdinando.
Although both children were still too young to take their vows, mother abbess Suor Ludovica Vinta told the ailing Galileo that she desired to see them appropriately outfitted before she relinquished her elected office.