Everything about Felucca totally explained
A
felucca is a traditional wooden
sailing
boat used in protected waters of the
Red Sea and eastern
Mediterranean including
Malta, and particularly along the
Nile in
Egypt. Its rig consists of one or two
lateen sails.
They are usually able to board ten-some passengers and the crew consists of two or three people. Despite being made obsolete by
motorboats and
ferries, feluccas are still in active use as a means of transport in Nile-adjacent cities like
Aswan or
Luxor. They are especially popular among tourists who can enjoy their quieter and calmer mood than motorboats have to offer.
San Francisco's feluccas
Americans are largely unaware of the fleet of lateen-rigged feluccas that thronged
San Francisco's docks even before the construction of the state-owned
Fisherman's Wharf in
1884. They were built by southern
Italian immigrants (who called them
"silene"). The light small maneuverable feluccas were the mainstay of the fishing fleet of
San Francisco Bay. "These workhorses featured a mast that angled, or raked, forward sharply, and a large triangular sail hanging down from a long, two-piece yard"
John Muir described them.
The felucca of the Red Sea is depicted on a postage stamp of British Aden (
illustration, right).
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