Dhow (/ daʊ /; 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. [1][2] Typically sporting long thin hulls, dhows are trading vessels primarily used to carry heavy items, such as fruit, fresh water,...

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Eine Dau, auch Dhau (arabisch داو, englisch Dhow), ist ein in allen Anliegerländern des Indischen Ozeans zu findender Segelschiffstyp. Die Besonderheiten einer Dau sind ein bis drei einteilige Masten mit zum Teil ausgeprägtem vorlichem Fall, großen trapezförmigen Segeln (sogenannter Settee-Besegelung), sowie weit ausfallenden Steven.

The TSHD Sospan Dau is a Dutch trailing suction hopper dredger [1] owned by Sosban BV. The vessel has worked on dredging projects, including offshore aggregates, port maintenance, [2] land reclamation, coastal defense and beach replenishment.

The Kenyan dhow evolved from the dau la mtepe. A dugout boat with matting sails, the dau la mtepe thrived at the coast until the dau la misumari replaced it two centuries ago. Apart from the use of nails in its construction, the dau la misumari …

Drawing on the results of new linguistic research, Martin Walsh re-evaluates evidence for the antiquity of two kinds of Swahili sewn boat, the iconic mtepe and the humble dau, which not only gave us the word “dhow”, but turns out to have been …

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Sep 7, 2012 · Both mtepes and dau al mtepes (shown) carried very large spreads of sail and were reportedly fast sailors and surprisingly weatherly. Mtepes were of two types, the mtepe proper, and the dau la mtepe, which superseded it.

The vessel SOSPAN DAU (IMO 7711062, MMSI 244990000) is a Hopper Dredger built in 1978 (47 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Netherlands.

Jan 17, 2022 · Dau is eintlik ’n generiese term vir verskeie tradisionele seilbote wat op die Rooi See en die Indiese Oseaan gevaar het. Die dau was met een of meer maste toegerus en dié maste het klassieke driehoekige seile gehad wat aan ’n dwarsbalk vasgemaak en gehys of laat sak is soos die wind gewaai het.