The collection of V.I. Jochelson, kept at the American Museum of Natural History (New York), presents models of all types of Yukaghir boats. The boats anabushka (анабушка) and ekchil (экчил) are hollowed out of the trunks of poplar or aspen growing in the upper reaches of the Kolyma and its tributary of the Korkodon River.

 Экчил The ekchil was made from a single trunk of a poplar with an adze or a knife, its length is 5-6 m., width is 65 cm, the sides are thin, so it is light, up to 27 kg, can be easily carried on shoulders from one river to another.

They took the trunk of a straight-growing tree, and split it with wedges. The soft southern part of the trunk, called the "belly", was used, in contrast to the hard northern part – the "spine". The boat might be single or double-seated. To strengthen the sides in its central part there are two long round spacers in cross section, at the ends of the boat there are two short ones. The rower sits between two struts on a cushion of grass covered with leather. A passenger sits down with his back to him and closer to the stern. The use of a sail is considered an acquisition from the Russians.

The wooden shuttle Hodol, branch in russian, is more stable in the water. There have been changes in the spelling and names of boats in modern language materials.

The dugout boat retained only one name – anabuskaa (анабускаа) or spokeshave in russian. Now the ekchil is called a single-person boa – a branch of three boards. The name hodol falls out of use.

The sides of the shuttle were made into one board, sewn to the bottom with vein threads or ropes twisted from wood fibers. The cracks were covered with larch resin. In the profiling of dugout and plank single boats, there is a roundness of the bow in comparison with the elongated stern. The similarity is also observed in the presence of four struts-crossbars.

The Yukaghir chamdye (чамдьэ) paddle has two blades at the ends. Heading upstream and in shallow water, two jabuchil (йабучиль) poles were used. Mududjube (мудудьубэ) carries were used to overcome the short distance between water bodies, i.e. the shuttle sometimes acted as a travois. Researchers believe that from the forest Yukaghirs (oduls), the hollowed-out boats got to the tundra Yukaghirs, northern Yakuts, Chukchi and Koryaks, and the plank shuttles may have been borrowed by the Yukaghirs from neighboring peoples.

For transportation of family members during migrations, in addition to rafts, heavy-duty boats of the combined type were used. V.I. Jochelson considered them borrowed from russians: harbach (харбэч), rus. ‘karbass'. Many parts of the boat have Russian names. The lower part of the harbach is a hollowed-out shuttle, the sides are made up of two rows of boards (on boi) (бои) sewn with ropes from young birch trees, moss uo-labiye (уо-лэбийэ) is placed in the grooves and filled with gray larch. The length of the boats is 6 m, the sides are connected by 4-6 arc ribs, there are rowlocks for 2-4 oars. At the close of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries yukaghirs manufactured and supplied roomy boats to the markets of Verkhnekolymsk and Srednekolymsk.