Drua

alternative names: Na Drua, N'drua, Vaka Tepu (sacred canoe)

Druas are sailing canoes fromo the Fiji Islans, though calling them "canoe" makes no justice to them.

A Drua has two hulls, but unlike a catamaran one of them is smaller and the sail is always on the bigger one. Technically, a Drua is a pacific proa, meaning that the smaller hull is allways sailed to windward.

Druas were probably developed from the micronesian "flying proa", and were rapidly adopted in Tonga (where they are called Kalia) and Samoa (where they are called Alia)