The Sindbad Voyage

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In 1980, in the Sutanate of Oman on the Arabian Sea, a replica was built of an Arab sailing ship of a kind that had not been seen for centuries -- a vessel like those which navigated a quarter of the way round the globe in search of trade more than a thousand years ago. As in Tim Severin's previous exploit, The Brendan Voyage, the journey was based on meticulous research. Sohar (named at the wish of the Sultan after the town said to have been Sindbad's birth place) was built form trees personally chosen by the author from the forests of the Malabar coast in India. Not a single nail was used in teh construction -- the ship was tied together with some four hundred miles of coconut rope. With a crew of twenty, including eight Omani sailors, Sohar's 6,000 mile journey took her across the Arabian Sea to India, then to Sri Lanka and across the Indian Ocean to Sumatra and the Malacca Straits, and finally through the China Seas to Canton. The story of this astonishing 7 1/2 month voyage is told here -- one of the most remarkable sailing stories of modern times.