0 a sailing boat with a long, thin hull (= body) and one or two masts (= posts for sails), used mostly in eastern Arabia, eastern Africa, and southern Asia
Colonial officials regularly and wrongly predicted the imminent demise of the dhow.
Again, photographs and drawings successfully convey the intricate skill needed to produce such dhows.
In addition to photographs, the book includes detailed line drawings that help illustrate and clarify the more complicated aspects of dhow building.
The book includes a fascinating appendix on the economics of dhow building, with tables that compare the costs of building a medium-size dhow in 1937 and 1987.
Chapter 7 is dedicated to dhow construction.
He also lists the various types of imported timber used to build particular dhows and reveals whether such timber is still available today (in most cases, it is not).
It is an easy business for the dhows.
Several dhows were examined and their papers were found in order.
