Felucca
A felucca (Arabic: فلوكة, romanized: falawaka, possibly originally from Greek ἐφόλκιον, epholkion) 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.
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