Key details
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 5.54 / 18ft 2in
- Beam (m / ft)
- 1.84 / 6ft 1in
Design and build
- Place of build
- Bahrain
Current status
History
Believed to have been destroyed. Early Eisca image shows this craft sailing. With their straight stems and raked transom sterns these are the most European-looking of Arab dhows and it seems likely that the name is derived from the English 'Jollyboat'. This is probably due not so much to the shape as to the fact that they were, and still are, the commonest forms of boats (though usually with a slightly raked stem) that are carried as tenders by the larger dhows. GH 28 Nov 2014.