A dhow is a traditional boat design with one or more triangular sails, called lateens. It is indigenous to the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, India, and East Africa. A larger dhow may have a crew of approximately thirty while smaller dhow have crews more typically ranging around twelve.

For celestial navigation, dhow sailors have traditionally used the kamal. This observation device determines latitude by finding the angle of the Pole Star above the horizon.

1937 stamp of Aden depicting a dhow.

External links

• http://www.archaeology.org/9705/abstracts/dhow.html
• http://www.ecssr.ac.ae/Land/Dhow.html
• http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Trip_Four.html

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