Pump boat

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A pump boat used by the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary in Iloilo City

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A pump boat propeller and rudder

A pump boat (usually variation as pambot in local languages) is an outrigger canoe ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) native to Southeast Asia powered by a small gasoline or diesel engine. Smaller pump boats might be powered by the sort of small single-cylinder engine used to drive a water pump. Larger ones are often powered by recycled automobile engines.<ref name="spoehr">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Pump boats are a utility boat in the Philippines, used for nearly everything from inter-island transportation to fishing and even the Philippine Coast Guard.<ref name="bb">Template:Cite book</ref> Pump boats are also used by Sama-Bajau migrants and refugees in Sabah, Malaysia and eastern Indonesia (where it is known as pombotTemplate:Which lang).<ref name="cliff">Template:Cite journal</ref>

See also

• Paraw
• Basnigan
• Lepa (ship)
• Balangay
• Traditional fishing boat
• List of boat types