The term bedar, (in Terengganu spelled "bedor"), is applied to a wide variety of boats of the east coast of Malaysia that carry one or two junk sails and lack the typical transom stern of the perahu pinas. These junk rigged boats are usually built in the Terengganu area. The stern of the bedar is a classical "canu" or "pinky stern," being a typical "double ender", a bit like a modern ship's lifeboat, with a very full turn of the bilge and with markedly raked stem and stern. They came in small versions as small one-masted fishing vessels - anak bedar (Malay to English: child) and were built as big as 90 feet over deck (LOD). The majority of the bedars were usually 45 to 60 feet (13.7-18.3 m) over deck. The bedar, like all Terengganu boats, was built of Chengal wood by the Malays since the 1