The art of building wooden ships has all but disappeared. However, in some countries wooden ships are used as tourist attraction and sometimes even for transporting cargo (see post of 26.9.20222). In Oman, the town of Sur is famous for shipbuilding. The work is done by indian or pakistani craftsmen. A similar place, where big cargo ships like those which can be seen in the old port of Dubai are built, is in Mandvi, in India. I will show some pictures from there later
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Highly interesting (for someone who lives on a ship, anyway). The workman in photo 4 is wearing safety flip-flops, I’m sure. Looking forward to the Mandvi photos.