Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on August 08, 2006 at 22:48:12 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Arab Dhows posted by Alan Hakim on August 08, 2006 at 18:40:06:
There are (or were in September last year) still hundreds of Feluccas on the Nile. There are also a few working sailing barges with huge double lateen rigs.
We once had a wonderful felucca voyage upstream from Luxor. There was only one boatman and they really need a crew of two, so he and I sailed the boat between us. We didn't have a word in common, but both of us loved sailing and we could understand each other perfectly - even though we argued about details in our respective languages we both agreed that we needed to go faster all the time than the two big feluccas which carried the rest of our party.
But (to get back to AR) I don't think there has ever been anything really like a dhow on the Nile.