{"id":17540,"date":"2020-11-03T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T05:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17540"},"modified":"2020-11-03T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T05:57:14","slug":"emirati-man-ready-to-set-sail-for-karachi-in-worlds-largest-dhow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17540","title":{"rendered":"Emirati man ready to set sail for Karachi in world\u2019s largest dhow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dubai,<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s largest dhow, Obaid, is soon going to set sail from Dubai for the Pakistani port of Karachi, in an Emirati man\u2019s attempt to fulfill his late father\u2019s dream. Majid Obaid Al-Falasi is planning to pursue his father\u2019s dream and set sail for Karachi in two months to reach the port where his father built the first boat four decades ago.<\/p>\n

The dhow was certified by the Guinness World Records as the biggest traditional lateen-rigged coastal Arab sailing vessel. It was named after Emirati shipbuilder Obaid Jumaa bin Majid Al-Falasi.<\/p>\n

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Obaid Jumaa bin Majid Al-Falasi during a visit to Karachi in 1992. (Photo courtesy: Majid Obaid Al-Falasi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn 1975 my father went to Karachi and built a boat there which was even then the biggest boat in Pakistan, and named it Al-Fateh,\u201d said the chief executive of shipbuilding company Obaid bin Jumaa bin Suloom, which was founded by his father in 1972.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all started from Karachi after which my father started making dhows here in Dubai. He made over 2,500 dhows in his lifetime,\u201d Al-Falasi said.<\/p>\n

Karachi-made Al-Fateh was completed in 1976, after which the pioneer shipbuilder returned to the UAE. Al-Falasi recalled how the boat bewildered everyone when it docked in Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dubai, The world\u2019s largest dhow, Obaid, is soon going to set sail from Dubai for the Pakistani port of Karachi, in an Emirati man\u2019s attempt to fulfill his late father\u2019s dream. Majid Obaid Al-Falasi is planning to pursue his father\u2019s dream and set sail for Karachi in two months to reach the port where his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1460,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-middle-east","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17542,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions\/17542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}