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Posted on July 27, 2005 @ 8:33 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,another green world,bargain,blog,cheap,fun,holidays,illustration,island,kenya,lamu,news,people,sailing,travel,wordpress
Dhows are typicall Arabic crafts that was originally employed by the Arabian traders sailing the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. I had the chance of sailing on board a 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 with the crew. 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. “Yes” -I reply- “keep in touch!” Unfortunately I ran out of money meanwhile 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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