Traditional Iranian seafaring is on the verge of destruction due to the replacement of modern barges instead of wooden Lenj boats. Wooden sailing barges have not been launched for a long time and many of them have been destroyed. The colony of old sailors is getting smaller day by day and the rest of the survivors have forgotten lots of their knowledge. With certainty we can say that if no action is taken to revive Iran's traditional seafaring, this heritage will be completely lost in less than a decade! One of the most important and biggest goals of the project of revitalizing the Iranian Boom lenj boat is to take steps towards preserving the maritime heritage of Iran.
About the Revival process of Iranian Boom Lenj boat
The idea of this project was formed in 2018 with the aim of reviving traditional sailing. Our first and most important goal of this project was to create and restore a lenj boat to remind us again of Iran's barge-making and maritime heritage. It was at the beginning of the journey that we realized that the danger of Iranian Boom destruction is beyond our imagination. Because among about five thousand fishing lenj boats in the Persian Gulf cities, there were less than a hundred Boom lenj boats, many of which were not even able to get renovated. Also, due to the lack of use of this type of lenj boat, many buyers of booms intend to use parts such as their engines, rather than rebuilding and relaunching them.
در نهایت، در سال 1398، موفق به خریداری یک بوم بادبانی شدیم. اگرچه در جنوب ایران لنج سازان بسیاری مشغول به کار هستند؛ اما، به دلایلی که پیشتر به آنها اشاره کردیم از میان این لنج سازان تقریبا دیگر کسی به طور اختصاصی به ساخت بوم نمی پردازد. این امر کار را برای ما دشوارتر ساخت، چرا که با تعداد قلیل دریانوردان قدیمی در شهرهای جنوب، که خود در طی سالها دوری از دریا بسیاری از آموخته هایشان را فراموش کرده اند، پیدا کردن یک راهنما امری به ظاهر نشدنی به نظر میرسید. اما در نهایت کلونی دریانوردان قدیمی شهر کنگ به کمک ما آمده و کار بازسازی بوم در دو مرحله ظاهری و فنی آغاز شد. ناخدا عبدالرحمن بابو، در این راه راهنمای ما بود و به همین جهت پس از اتمام پروژه، این لنج بادبانی را برای قدردانی از زحمات او، “بوم بابو” نامگذاری کردیم.