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A Shu’ai, Shu’i or Shuw'i ( ar, شوعي) is a small or medium-sized Dhow Shu’ai
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Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
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A survey of Traditional Vessels of the Sultanate of Oman. The Omani Dhow Recording Project Field Research, 1992
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A Shu’ai, Shu’i or Shuw'i ( ar, شوعي) is a small or medium-sized dhow
Dhow ( ar, داو, translit=dāwa; mr, script=Latn, 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. Typically spor ...
, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel. This type of dhow is built low with a high quarter deck and has one or two masts with lateen sails
A lateen (from French ''latine'', meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. The settee can be considered to be an associated type of the same ...
.Agius, Dionisius (2008) A general purpose coastal boat, the shu’ai is one of the smaller-size dhow of Persian Gulf.
Formerly Shu’ai was the most common dhow in the Persian Gulf used for fishing as well as for coastal trade. Some Shu'ai have been converted into motorboat
A motorboat, speedboat or powerboat is a boat that is exclusively powered by an engine.
Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gea ...
s after being fitted with engines instead of sails, especially in the Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...
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See also
*Dhow
Dhow ( ar, داو, translit=dāwa; mr, script=Latn, 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. Typically spor ...
* Baghlah
*Batil (ship)
Batil ( ar, بتيل ), also spelled ''bateel'' or ''battil'', is a traditional type of sailing vessel from Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asi ...
*Beden
The Beden, badan, or alternate type names Beden-seyed and Beden-safar, is a fast, ancient Somali single or double-masted maritime vessel and ship, typified by its towering stern-post and powerful rudder. It is also the longest surviving sewn boa ...
* Boom (ship)
*Ghanjah
A ghanjah or ganja ( ar, غنجه), also known as kotiya in India, is a large wooden trading dhow, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel.
Description
The ghanjah dhows had a curved prow with a characteristic trefoil ornament carved on top of the st ...
*Sambuk
Sanbuk (ultimately from Middle Persian ), known in New Persian as Sunbūk (), in Turkish as Zambuk and in Arabic as Sanbūk (), Sanbūq () and Ṣunbūq (), is a type of dhow, a traditional wooden sailing vessel.
It has a characteristic keel des ...
References
Bibliography
* . * Hawkins, Clifford W. (1977). ''The Dhow: An Illustrated History Of The Dhow And Its World''. Nautical Publishing Co. Ltd, * Hourani, George F. (1995).Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
'. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Further reading
* Tibbetts, G.R. (2002) ''Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean before the Coming of the Portuguese: being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawā'id fī uṣūl al-baḥr wa-'l-qawā'id by Aḥmad Ibn Mādjid al-Nadjdī''. London: RoutledgeAmazon
External links
A survey of Traditional Vessels of the Sultanate of Oman. The Omani Dhow Recording Project Field Research, 1992
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