felucca
{{Short description|Type of boat}}
{{For|the fictional moon|Felucca (Ultima)}}
A felucca{{efn|{{langx|ar|فلوكة|felūka}}, possibly originally from Greek {{lang|grc|ἐφόλκιον}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|epholkion}}{{cite book|last=El Houssi|first=Abdelmajid|title=Retour sur l'étymologie de felouque|page=20|url=http://www.selefa.asso.fr/files_pdf/AcBul09T05.pdf}}}} is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean, including around Malta and Tunisia. However, in Egypt, Iraq and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in the Sudanese protected areas of the Red Sea), its rig can consist of two lateen sails as well as just one.
They are usually able to board ten passengers and the crew consists of two or three people.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/magazine/caravaggio.html Contemporary accounts] assert that in the summer of 1610, a felucca was the last boat on which Italian painter Caravaggio traveled from Naples, then under Spanish control, to Palo, Italy whereafter he died in Porto Ercole.
Egypt
Despite the availability of motorboats and ferries, feluccas are still in active use as a means of transport in Nile-adjacent cities like Aswan or Luxor. They are especially popular among tourists who can enjoy a quieter and calmer mood than motorboats have to offer.
File:Ajasor på Nilen 1954-1955 SLSA 1150 1262.jpg. ]]
Feluccas were photographed by writer Göran Schildt's travels on the Nile in 1954–55 as part of his Mediterranean sea travels. Schildt documented them as being called "Ajasor".
San Francisco
File:SF felluca from NARA 116.jpg at the foot of Union Street, circa 1891]]
A large fleet of lateen-rigged feluccas thronged San Francisco's docks before and after the construction, at the foot of Union Street, of the state-owned Fisherman's Wharf in 1884.{{cite web |last1=Muir |first1=John C. |author1-link=John C. Muir |title=Tides of Change: Fisherman's Wharf (1870-1930) |url=https://maritime.org/tides-of-change/ |website=Sea Letter |publisher=San Francisco Maritime National Park Association |access-date=27 July 2023 |date=Summer 2000}} Light, small, and maneuverable, the feluccas were the mainstay of the fishing fleet of San Francisco Bay. John C. Muir, Curator of Small Craft,{{cite web |title=Our Team |url=https://friendsofchinacamp.org/about-us/our-team/ |website=Friends of China Camp |access-date=27 July 2023}}{{Cite web |title=2017 Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA Program |url=https://councilofamericanmaritimemuseums.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/camm-2017-program-final1.pdf}} SF Maritime Historical Park, said of them, "These workhorses featured a mast that angled, or raked, forward sharply, and a large triangular sail hanging down from a long, two-piece yard".{{cite web |last=Muir |first=John C. |title=Tides of change: Fisherman's Wharf, 1870–1930 |url=http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/wharf.html |date=Summer 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060808062620/http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/wharf.html |archive-date=August 8, 2006 |magazine=Sea Letter |access-date=January 30, 2021}}{{cite magazine |last=Muir |first=John C. |title=Tides of change: Fisherman's Wharf, 1870–1930 (excerpt) |url=https://maritime.org/tides-of-change/ |date=Summer 2000 |magazine=Sea Letter |issue=58 |access-date=January 30, 2021}} Among the owners of feluccas in San Francisco Bay was the author Jack London, who recollected his adventure as a young oyster pirate in his works.{{citation needed|date=June 2021|reason=where does London recollect?; it doesn't seem to say at his article}}
Felucca Nuovo Mondo{{cite web |title=Felucca Nuovo Mondo Under Sail (Photo) |url=https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/view.htm%3Fid%3D4D5D2F58-155D-4519-3E15047BCF55EEAB |website=U.S. National Park Service |access-date=27 July 2023}} built in 1987,{{cite web |title=A guide to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Photo Lab records, 1963-2014 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84q80kn/admin/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=27 July 2023 |quote=Online Archive of California is a service of the UC Libraries, powered by the California Digital Library}} sails from San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park{{cite web |last1=Gaudreau |first1=Ernest |title=Felucca Novo Mondo, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/princebart/3009562910/in/photostream/ |website=princebart |publisher=flickr |access-date=27 July 2023 |date=6 November 2008}}{{cite news |title=Sausalito Herring Festival |url=https://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/sausalito-herring-festival/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |work=Latitude38 |date=8 February 2013 |quote=The felucca Nuovo Mondo and the Wettons' Monterey will be on display – on Sausalito YC moorings – at the Sausalito Herring Festival tomorrow.}}{{cite web |title=Felucca Nuovo Mondo Says Farewell to the Shore |url=https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?id=4E305928-155D-4519-3E2B19BC788F4DFB&gid=D8C1A1A1-155D-4519-3E617CFB943FC114 |website=Gallery Item Display |publisher=nps.gov |access-date=27 July 2023}}{{cite web |title=small boats on display at Hyde Street Pier (Video) |url=https://52.5.189.6/media/video/view.htm?id=6F18B5DC-60AC-47CA-A03F-8649BEA3405B |website=San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park |publisher=U.S. National Park Service |access-date=27 July 2023 |date=27 July 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727201029/https://52.5.189.6/media/video/view.htm?id=6F18B5DC-60AC-47CA-A03F-8649BEA3405B | archive-date=2023-07-27 }}
See also
Notes
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References
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Further reading
- Muscat, Joseph (2003) The Gilded Felucca and Maltese Boatbuilding Techniques. Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza, Malta. {{ISBN|99932-41-45-8}}
External links
{{Commons category|Feluccas}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070314045358/http://www.globalamity.net/index.php?section=article&articleid=15&pagenumber=15 Photographs from a felucca journey on the Nile]
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