Long-tailboats, known in Thai as reua hahng yahw (เรือหางยาว) typically are a long shaped kind of boat that is powered by a truck engine driving a propeller at the end of a long shaft. However, similar motors, though usually with smaller engines, are also used with a variety of other boats. The long shaft of these motors is specially designed to avoid floating rubble and to overcome the problem of water hyacinths that are often abundant or may even block the rivers and canals. Due to its design the shaft can easily be lifted out of the water and cleared if the propeller gets stuck. The downside however, is that these kind of motors are generally rather noisy. In this video we take a boat ride along the canals of Damnoen Saduak in the province of Raatburi (ราชบุรี), usually transliterated Rachaburi, which has a popular floating market where people trade from boats, typically two kinds of small flat bottomed paddle boats are used, one which is called reua jaew (เรือแจว), the other the slightly larger reua tae (เรือแตะ). The shape of the latter is slightly bent and it is typified by two bulwark planks above deck, one on each side; whereas the former is characterized by a bulwark frame that surrounds almost the entire boat above deck and which is supported by a rib-like structure on the inside. Floating markets, known in Thai as talaat nahm (ตลาดน้ำ), literally ‘water markets’, are found throughout the country and are a remnant of the past when there were fewer roads and life evolved mostly around rivers, waterways, and canals. The name Damnoen Saduak (ดำเนินสะดวก) derives from Rachasap, i.e. ‘Royal Speech’, and means ‘Convenient Progress’. Besides being the name for the district where the floating market is held, it is also the name of a large canal that connects the province of Ratchaburi with Bangkok, via Samut Sakon (สมุทรสาคร). The region has many orchards with fruit and coconut trees and the canal was specially dug to transport these crops in a fast and convenient way to the capital, hence the etymology behind the name. 回