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There’s also a jetty at the river’s edge where a dhow-like dahabeah could be moored for daily or overnight trips with special permission.
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Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2025
For centuries, countless Muslims bound for Saudi Arabia’s holy cities charted routes across the seas aboard dhows, junks, and slow-moving steamships.
—Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2025
Between adventures, enjoy lazy afternoon hammock naps, sunset rides on a dhow boat, and candlelit dinners on the beach as waves curl onto powdery sand.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2025
Falconry displays, dhow boat races, and majlis gatherings with cardamom coffee keep Qatar’s cultural roots alive.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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From the skiff, Jewel prayed as the officers cuffed the men, allegedly roughed one up, and eventually coerced him into revealing where the stash was.—
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In addition to Machado, two people were on board the fishing skiff that skipped across the sea after a two-month planning process.—
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Over the years, the Barnetts have expanded their fleet of canoes and paddleboards from nine to more than 100.—
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Sixteen teams of five people each will go head-to-head to race their canoes.—
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On Blue Moon, Big Blue’s new 53-foot catamaran, the hold was stuffed with bottles of Moët.—
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Heimann and her family were scheduled to sail on a catamaran in the British Virgin Islands.—
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Golden mussels clog the thruster and decorate the underside of his dinghies.—
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Dozens have died in recent years trying to cross one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in overcrowded dinghies.—
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Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.—
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Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.—
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It’s crowded with houseboats, fishing vessels, roving vendors in sampans, and multi-story floating restaurants that drew tourists until the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to shutter.—
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Hong Kong: Hong Kong Harbor, one of the world’s most scenic, rewards passengers with vistas of skyscrapers, mountains, ferries and sampans.—
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Next comes Emergency Medical Services in a rowboat.—
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By Caity Weaver My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.—
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The early whiskey makers in Kentucky were the first to barrel and ship their whiskey on flatboats down to New Orleans.—
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On Christmas Eve 1788, settlers hopped into flatboats at Limestone (Maysville, Kentucky) and traveled for four days down the icy Ohio River to establish Losantiville, later called Cincinnati.—
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“Dhow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dhow. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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