{"id":102787,"date":"2026-05-10T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=102787"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:47:55","slug":"dhow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dhow\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dhow Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Indian sailor was killed and several others injured after their wooden dhow caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dhow<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dhow is a <\/span><b>traditional wooden sailing vessel <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used mainly in the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Ocean<\/a>, Arabian Sea,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and along the <\/span><b>coasts of East Africa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the<\/span><b> Middle East.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dhow has a<\/span><b> long, narrow hull <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is <\/span><b>propelled only by its sail.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historians aren&#8217;t sure who <\/span><b>invented <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the dhow \u2014 <\/span><b>Indians or Arabs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 but they do know th<\/span><b>e first ones appeared before 600 C.E.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dhow has been a<\/span><b> central part of maritime trade, fishing,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and culture for countries like <\/span><b>Oman, Yemen, India,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>coastal regions of East Africa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today the term generally refers to all sailing ships in that region with <\/span><b>one or two masts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>triangular or quadrilateral-shaped sails.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Bows are sharp,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a forward and upward thrust, and the <\/span><b>sterns <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the larger dhows <\/span><b>may be windowed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and decorated.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Facts about Beypore Uru<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>wooden dhow<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> handcrafted by skilled artisans and carpenters in <\/span><b>Beypore town<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Kozhikode district, <\/span><b>Kerala<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beypore urus are <\/span><b>purely made of wood<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>without using any modern techniques,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and traditional methods are used to launch these ships into the water.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The carpenters manually<\/span><b> join each piece of wood to build the large boat.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uru making in Beypore is a <\/span><b>centuries-old tradition <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that was<\/span><b> established since India began its maritime trade with Mesopotamia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Arab traders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were among the <\/span><b>first major patrons <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of these vessels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually an Uru is built by a <\/span><b>team of fifty men <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over a <\/span><b>period of at least four years.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>No blueprints<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are made and the entire aspect of shipbuilding is embedded in the minds of the highly skilled shipwrights.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Khalasis <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are a group of <\/span><b>people traditionally involved in the construction <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Urus.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/indian-sailor-killed-in-dhow-fire-near-strait-of-hormuz\/article70958354.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhow is a traditional wooden sailing vessel used mainly in the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and along the coasts of East Africa and the Middle East. 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