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This photo was sent to At Sail by a fellow named Ashraf A. Ismail. It’s a photo of felucas, a small boat that uses sails or oars or both and is now mostly seen on the Nile River in Egypt, as well as in Sudan’s part of the Nile, and in the Red Sea, bordered by Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. In former days, felucas were more common in the Mediterranean region.
They also use felucas in Iraq. The sails look heavy in Mr Ismail’s photo, which gives them in my eye a certain elegance, like the tired hot day in the picture.
Thanks, Ashraf.
