Dhow fishing boats

[On Vacation]

These are the fishing vessels that fish in the northern Persian Gulf region, being built.

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[ 08-08-2003, 10:40 PM: Message edited by: Oyster ]

[Wiley Baggins]

Nice shots, Oyster. Thanks.

[Paul Scheuer]

Issue 46 had a article on the Dhows. A noble vessel with a very long tradition.

The Travel Channel recently covered a voyage on one, where the "star" lived with the locals on a passage that lasted several days.

[On Vacation]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/p14a089e8767cb9f6f92d7e3c4b025666/fb70374e.jpg

These fellows are weaving out of steel wire, fish pots.
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[ 08-09-2003, 11:53 AM: Message edited by: Oyster ]

[Tar Devil]

I like 'em!

Later,

Phil

[JimD]

Let's hope the eco system survives so they can go on fishing for a long time

[Bob Smalser]

The Royal Oman Navy Museum each year sponsors a short Dhow race off Muscat using smaller, 30' vessels from dry storage at the museum....the race is usually done on the arrival day of the Dubai-Muscat yacht race.

The years I was there three crews are chosen - one Omani, one Brit and one US. We each had a week to get the boats soaked up, rigged and ready - lashed cotton sails, caulked with coconut fiber and rigged with hemp and simple greased blocks - if one boat was unrepairable in the time alloted then two crews doubled up....

...what a blast...all we could do to get 'em to float, let alone sail...lateen on solid spars not exactly a "user-friendly", "short-handed" rig.....three crews average a broken bone, concussion or two each year....

...the rules were you had to do everything the traditional way with the boat careened and hand tools....

...learned gobs of real old-fashioned marlinspike seamanship from Arabs whose Grandfathers were genuine, card-carrying Sohar Pirates....

...the combined crew feast afterwards of baby goat on saffron rice made the aches, pains and frustrations disappear...

....I'll have to find and digitize the snaps.

As the US Armed Forces are guests of the Omanis, of course this was an important, mission-related event we devoted the entire week to....

And Oyster...

.....your son take those in Bahrain, Kuwait City, Doha or Um Qasr? Gotta be one of the four and they all still have traditional boatyards...

...I even went so far as to get an estimate on shipping back a 28' bare hull of teak to make into a sailboat...but far too costly.

[ 08-09-2003, 10:14 PM: Message edited by: Bob Smalser ]

[On Vacation]

These shots were in some general discs, that I was going through, that he sent me, so I am not sure of the exact location. I did find some shots that he had taken, that has some fiberglass moulds for these boats, now, that are being done, if that will help you. I will ask him. when I speak ot him next week.