Indigenous fishing craft of Oman

The Mediterranean lateen sailing rig has been studied since the early-to-mid-20th century. Recently-published depictions of sailing vessels rigged with lateen and settee sails, dating to the late-antique period, allow some of the principle characteristics of that rig to be established. This allows comparison with lateen-or settee-rigged vessels from both earlier and later periods. The sailing rigs depicted on other vessels can be identified and the level of technical continuity between the late-antique and medieval Mediterranean addressed. Finally it is possible to assess the extent to which the lateen sail was established in the Mediterranean by late antiquity.

Section: Late‐antique Lateen/settee Rig Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 54%

The Mediterranean Lateen Sail in Late Antiquity

Whitewright

2009

“…; Vosmer, : fig. ), which persisted in more recent ethnographic examples from Oman, East Africa, and India (Hornell, : 60; Kentley, : 309; Vosmer, : 221).…”

Section: Constructionmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…The badan (pl. badana or badani ) is a distinctive Omani vessel used along its eastern coasts (Burton, : 74; Hornell, : 29; Vosmer, : 227). All badana are double‐ended, carvel‐built, with a vertical ‘clipper‐shape’ false stem ( sadr ) and a high stern fin ( fashīn ) clamped in place with cheek pieces.…”

Section: The Badanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although some of the recent examples are completely nailed, most of them were usually built with a hybrid method, having the hull fastened with clenched nails and the false stem and fashīn sewn to the hood‐ends of the planking. The vessel was used in the Muscat area and Batinah coast, where it was mainly rowed with long oars and occasionally rigged with a single settee sail (Vosmer, : 227). Because of its resemblance to the beden seyad , in terms of shape, size, and function, the fishing badan can be considered the final stage of the development of the 19th‐century vessel illustrated by Pâris, from which it retained the use of ropes to fasten the stem and stern by means of sewing.…”

Section: The Badanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In small traditional vessels, such as the badan for example, the mast socket is generally located on the largest floor timber (Fig. b) (Vosmer, : 229). A square timber with a slot on its upper surface appears in the top view of the beden seyad original manuscript, where it is partly covered by the mat decking, but it is not shown in the body plan.…”

Section: Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Building Pâris’ Beden Seyad: a replica of the Omani 19th‐century sewn fishing vessel

Ghidoni

2019

The beden seyad is a simple yet elegant Omani sewn fishing craft documented by the French naval officer François‐Edmond Pâris during his visit in Oman in 1838–1839. A 10m‐long scaled‐down replica of the vessel was built by a team of experts in a traditional boatyard in Qantab, the Sultanate of Oman, and is displayed in the Maritime History Gallery at the National Museum of Oman. This article describes different aspects of the building process of the vessel, from the material used to the method of construction. It compares the different versions of the beden drawing provided by Pâris and discusses the decision‐making and problem‐solving procedures carried out by the construction team.

TheBattīlandZārūqahof Musandam, Oman

Weismann¹,

Staples

Ghidoni

et al. 2014

Most of the traditional boats still in use in Musandam, Oman, are essentially batātīl or zawārīq. Both types of vessel are described and compared in detail and placed within the larger context of boat types found in the surrounding region. This article attempts to establish a classification based primarily on shape, construction and decorative features, and provides names of individual components in both in Arabic and Kumzari.