Boom (ship)

This article is about the type of ship. For horizontal spar attached to the mast of a sailboat, see boom (sailing). For floating barriers to control access to harbours and rivers, see boom (navigational barrier).
Picture of a boum in Kuwait.
An Indian-style boum sailing. Note the shorter prow
Boum; Maritime Museum in Kuwait City commemorating the founding of Kuwait as a sea port for merchants.

A boum/boom (Arabic: بوم) (French: bhum), known as dhangi in India,[1] is a medium-sized deep-sea dhow, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel.

This type of dhow has two masts with lateen sails, a stern that is tapering in shape and a more symmetrical overall structure than other dhow types. The Arab boum has a very high prow, which is trimmed in the Indian version.[2]

  1. ^ K. N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-28542-1
  2. ^ "Dhow Ship - Types". Archived from the original on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2011-04-15.