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Article: Sanjeeda's story: Sanjeeda is unique. She is the only two-masted lateen-rigged dhow plying the Indian Ocean. Stephen Williams met with the owner, Anderson Bakewell, to talk about the boat's remarkable story.(Mosaic)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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THE INSPIRATION FOR Sanjeeda, a cruise dhow, began when British musicologist Anderson Bakewell was visiting Madagascar. He was trying to reach a remote coastal village but heavy storm rains had washed away the only road that provided access to this village. As Bakewell contemplated his situation his thoughts turned to how useful it would be to have a boat.
"One thing led to the next," Bakewell explains. "I began to think about what type of boat I should like to have, and a traditional dhow came to mind." But Bakewell was neither interested in a reproduction, nor a reconstructed dhow. Neither did he really want a coastal jahazi dhow. What he was to set his sights ...