MDMD(5) Chap 16--Questions, Dhow

[Ted Samsel]

SMaas sez:
> 
> > 174.4  "Dhow" Anyone know what type of ship? 
> 
> It's an Arab lateen-rigged low-waisted ship. Lateen-rigged means a
> triangular sail on a low mast.  This was common for North African ships. 
> 
> An interesting book: _The Book of Old Ships: From Egyptian Galleys to
> Clipper Ships_ by Henry B. Culver.  It's an old book but available in
> a 1992 Dover Publications trade paperback (I got it at Borders).  It has a
> line drawing and a few pages of text about each of many types of sailing
> ship.  It doesn't include a dhow--but it does have an 18th C. frigate, an
> East Indiaman, and a xebec (for you V-ers out there).  I imagine a dhow is
> similar to a xebec, but maybe smaller.

I think the dhow is more of an Indian Ocean type of craft, with the
xebec being Mediterranean.

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