Wooden sailing vessels of the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, such as dhows, that carried trade between East Africa, Arabia and India. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the boat a dhow or a sailing boat of the Indian Ocean or Arab coast. It excludes Mediterranean and East Asian craft. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
All Arab and Indian Ocean Sailing Boats
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Wikipedia: Dhow
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Dhow (; Arabic: داو, romanized: dāw) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region.
Uru (boat) (Wikipedia)
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Uru, also known as Fat Boat in English, is a type of dhow made in Beypore, Kerala, in the southwestern coast of India.
Ghanjah (Wikipedia)
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A ghanjah or ganja (Arabic: غنجه), is a large wooden trading dhow, a traditional Indian sailing vessel.
Masula boat (Wikipedia)
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Masula boat, also known as masulah boat, is a kind of non-rigid boat built without knees used on the coast of Madras (the present day city of Chennai), India, along with catamarans.
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