The dhow was known for two distinctive features.

Dhow boat. Imagine yourself on having dinner on a Dhow Cruise with the facinating lights of Dubai creek with Music and Tanura Dance show with a sip of your favorite drink and BBQ buffet dinner. Dhow was the name that westerners gave to the ships they saw in the Indian Ocean. Their most distinguishable features are their raised hull sharp bow and at least two triangular sails.

Huge collection amazing choice 100 million high quality affordable RF and RM images. New and used models for sale. Dhow one- or two-masted Arab sailing vessel usually with lateen rigging slanting triangular sails common in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

The history of dhow boats started a long time ago when Arab and Indian merchants began exploring East Africa. Ad Luxury Cobalt Boats in Lake Geneva WI. On the larger types called baggalas and booms the mainsail is considerably bigger than the mizzensail.

A sailing boat with a long thin hull body and one or two masts posts for sails used. HttpbitlyNatGeoSubscribeAbout National GeographicNational Geographic is. No one knows who originally designed the dhow.

A ship made without nails can withstand the force of monsoon winds. First of all its triangular or lateen sail and secondly for its stitched construction. The merchants used them to travel a long way from India Oman all the way to Zanzibar and back using monsoon windsZanzibar became a hub for exporting goods particularly spices unfortunately slaves and also elephant tusks.

Bows are sharp with a forward and upward. The dinner cruise in Dubai Marina as a concept began in 2010 with some operators bringing the dhow boats to Dubai Marina and operating floating restaurants. The rugged traditional wooden dhow that has for centuries been the main means of sea trading in the region around India the Arabian peninsula and eastern Africa is presently finding increasingly popular use as dinner cruise boat liveaboard diveboat and theme restaurant.