Indigenous Boats

The title of this post is hyperbole in only the slightest degree, for Admiral A. Bertrand Paris's work Essai sur la Construction Navale...

If yesterday's post on the Kenyan sewn vessel the mtepe wasn't long enough, here's a bit more, gleaned from a source brought t...

A dau al mtepe (source unclear). Click any image to enlarge. Among the indigenous boats that disappeared in the 20th century was th...

The boom Sohar under main and mizzen. She also flew a jib. (Click any photo to enlarge.) All photos are from The Sinbad Voyage except w...

Great video here of  a dhow regatta in Abu Dhabi, with more than 80 boats competing: These modern racing dhows look fast and sexy. It...

A couple of posts back, I ran comments from reader and blogger António Fangueiro of Portugal about the dhow type known as the buggalow. Acc...

Jewel of Muscat , a replica of a 9th century sewn-plank dhow, has begun its planned 3,000-mile voyage from Oman to Singapore by way of India...

According to reader named Oman, the Jewel of Muscat , a replica of a 9th-century sewn-hull dhow under construction in Oman (the country) is ...

Welsh Coracle (photo National Maritime Museum Cornwall) Wish I'd known about this place the one time I had the pleasure of visiting the ...

(image from Clifford Hawkins; The Dhow . Click to enlarge.) Tacking a dhow, with its huge and heavy settee spar, is apparently not as diffi...

(illustration by Fernando G. Baptitsta; courtesy National Geographic, Click picture for larger image.) An article in the June '09 issue ...

There appears to be a big difference in the approach to workmanship between Western (i.e., European/North American) boatbuilding and that of...

Good question. According to Clifford W. Hawkins, in his nicely illustrated book The Dhow: an illustrated history of the Dhow and its World ,...