Madel Oruwa

This is mainly used for stretching the fishing net and is also used for chasing fish towards the net and acts as a support to the net. Approximately ten fishermen work in each boat. Single or couple of boats are used in each time and it is commonly use boat type around all parts of coastal area in Sri Lanka. This conserved Madel Oruwa is more than hundred years old and varieties of timber is used for constructing as Rata del (Artocarpus altillis) for log and out rigger is Midella (Media Dubia) and Domba (Calophyllum innophyllum).