Well, I’m not super sure the source of that exact model, its been floating around a long time.
I studied Mesoamerican Archaeology in college, and my prof at the time was all about the Chontal Maya, and the reconstruction is based I believe on Columbus’s descriptions.
The Chontal Maya or Putun Maya | Access Genealogy (a link is not an endorsement of the info ;))
I may do some digging but I can only find pretty weak sites about the topic, I have a variety of books on mesoamerican warfare and lifeways but the Chontal or Putun Maya were significant traders in the Caribbean, and based on the research we read about they may have actively traded as far as Florida on these craft.