New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- INSV Kaundinya, the Indian Navy's pioneering stitched sailing vessel that revived India's ancient shipbuilding and seafaring traditions, will undertake her maiden overseas voyage on December 29.
The vessel will be flagged off from Porbandar, Gujarat, for Muscat, Oman, symbolically retracing the historic maritime routes that connected India with the wider Indian Ocean world for millennia.
INSV Kaundinya is a stitched sail ship, based on a 5th century CE ship depicted in the paintings of Ajanta Caves. The vessel's construction was undertaken using a traditional method of stitching by a team of skilled artisans from Kerala, led by master shipwright Shri Babu Sankaran. Over several months, the team painstakingly stitched...