The chialoup sail plan mimics that used in sloops, with a combination of
square-rigged and
fore-and-aft sails. The boats are usually single-decked with one mast, sometimes with an added
mizzen mast. While most such chialoups use a European-style central
rudder, some are equipped with two side (quarter) rudders, a characteristic of Nusantaran boats. The length is between 15 and 25 meters, with a cargo bay almost 6 meters long. Depending on the size of the boat, crews run 20 to 40 people, with a typical load capacity of 72 to 144 metric tons. In the ''syahbandar's'' (harbourmaster) record of Malacca a chialoup is listed carrying up to 200 tons of cargo and a crew of 75 people. Chialoups on average were armed with 4
cannons, 1
swivel gun, and 7
snaphaunces. In the era after 1820, chialoups gradually disappeared from the "List of Ships and Sea Vehicles from the
East Indies", a periodical published by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies, and the term chialoup appeared more rarely in newspapers, replaced with
kotter, a
Dutch word for a type of sloop. == See also ==