Guilalo

{{Short description|Traditional Philippine sailing vessel}}

File:Guilalo o Parao de Cavite (1847).png]]

Guilalo (also spelled gilalo, jilalo, bilalo, or guilálas), were large Tagalog outrigger ships from the Philippines. They were common vessels in Manila Bay in the 18th and 19th centuries.{{cite book|editor =E. T Roe |editor2=Le Roy Hooker |editor3=Thomas W. Handford |title =The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary|publisher =J.A. Hill & Company|year =1907|page=484|url =https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_KhQLAQAAMAAJ#page/n487/mode/2up/search/guilalo}}{{cite journal|author=Ricardo E. Galang|year=1941|title=Types of Watercraft in the Philippines|journal=The Philippine Journal of Science|volume=75|issue=3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/act3868.0075.001.umich.edu/page/291 291]–306|url=https://archive.org/details/act3868.0075.001.umich.edu}} They were easily identifiable by their two large settee sails made with woven fiber. They were steered by a central rudder and can be rowed with round-bladed oars.{{cite web |title=Gi-Gz |url=http://www.dossiersmarine5.org/gi-gz.htm |website=Voliers du monde |access-date=1 July 2018 |archive-date=1 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701111624/http://www.dossiersmarine5.org/gi-gz.htm |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|title =Gran Diccionario Bilingüe Norma: Inglés-Español, Español-Inglés|publisher =Grupo Editorial Norma Referencia|year =2004|page=724|isbn = 9789580448808|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=yz1sBL9ZZdAC}}{{cite web |author=Bob Holtzman |title=Models in the Madrid Naval Museum, Part I |url=http://indigenousboats.blogspot.com/2012/01/models-in-madrid-naval-museum-part-i.html |website=Indigenous Boats: Small Craft Outside the Western Tradition |access-date=1 July 2018}}{{cite book|author=Antonio Sánchez de la Rosa|title =Diccionario hispano-bisaya para las provincias de Samar y Leyte, Volumes 1-2|publisher =Chofré y Comp.|year =1895|page=28|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=7EwHAQAAIAAJ}}

They ferried passengers and trade goods (like dried fish and fruits) between Manila and Cavite.{{cite book|author=Pedro Labernia|title =Novísimo diccionario de la Lengua Castellana, con la correspondencia Catalana|publisher =Espasa Hermanos|year =1867|page=119|url =https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_Ohe0sT-b_3QC#page/n121/mode/2up/search/guilalo}}{{cite journal|author=George Bennett|year=1832|title=Notes on Manilla, island of Luçonia|journal=The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia|volume=3|pages=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GTVKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA23}} They were also used in the Batangas region.{{cite book|author=Martín Fernández de Navarrete|title =Diccionario Maritimo Español |publisher = Imprenta Real|year =1831|page=[https://archive.org/details/diccionariomarit00madruoft/page/309 309]|url =https://archive.org/details/diccionariomarit00madruoft}}

They were also sometimes referred to as tafurea (or tarida) in Spanish, due to their similarity in appearance to the Medieval European tafurea, a flat-bottomed sailing ship used to transport horses.{{cite book|author=Antonio Sánchez de la Rosa & Antonio Valeriano Alcázar|title =Diccionario Español-Bisaya para las Provincias de Sámar y Leyte|publisher =De Santos y Bernal|year =1914|pages=[https://archive.org/details/0946475.0001.001.umich.edu/page/128 128], 563|url =https://archive.org/details/0946475.0001.001.umich.edu}} They are also sometimes known as "panco", a Spanish general term for bangka.{{cite book|author=R. Foulché-Delbosc|title =Revue Hispanique: Recueil consacré á l'étude des langues, des littératures et de l'histoire des pays castillans, catalans et portugais|volume =51 |publisher =Librairie C. Klincksieck|year =1921|pages=[https://archive.org/details/revuehispanique07amergoog/page/n114 99], 143|url =https://archive.org/details/revuehispanique07amergoog}}

File:Modelo de guilalo (Filipinas). Modelo acoplamiento de piñones.jpg|Model of a guilalo displayed in the 1887 Exposición General de las Islas Filipinas in Madrid

File:Guilalo ships in Manila Bay (c. 1848).jpg|Guilalo ships in Manila Bay, in a woodcut in Frank Marryat's Borneo and the Indian Archipelago (1848){{cite book|author=Frank S. Marryat|title =Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with Drawings of Costume and Scenery|publisher =Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans|year =1848|page=121|url =http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26844/26844-h/26844-h.htm#manilla}}