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Posted on July 27, 2005 @ 8:33 am by massimo | Filed under: africa, blog, fun, sailing, travel, wordpress
Dhow is a typicall Arabic craft. It was originally employed by the Arabian traders sailing the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. I had the chance of sailing by dhow from Lamu to Mombasa in the early eighties; at that time dhows were still employed as cargo-ships. The one I was aboard, carried a huge quantity of empty glass bottles and me, the occasional tourist! It was a few days passage and I felt quite at ease on board. As soon as we got Mombasa Old Port, the captain asked me if I wished to sail away again to Sri Lanka: he would leave Africa three months later. Meanwhile I ran out of money and I had to fly home…
Ten years later in Guimaras Island -the Philippines- I came across batels, a sort of huge sailing boats deriving from the ancient Spanish caravelles…but this is another story.
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