With their straight stems and square sterns these are the most European-looking of Arab dhows and it seems likely that the name is derived from the English 'Jollyboat'. This is probably due not so much to the shape as to the fact that they were, and still are, the commonest forms of boats (though usually with a slightly raked stem) that are carried as tenders by the larger dhows.

In this way they exactly correspond to the Jollyboat of the Royal Navy, with whom the Arab seamen of the lower Gulf had many a brush during the suppression of piracy on the old route to India.

A more modern adoption of English names is the new Arab word 'lynch'. Any boat, regardless of its original definition - Jailbot, Sambuk or Boom, which carries an inboard engine, is now universally referred to as a lynch, from the English 'launch'. This not only indicates the superiority of the craft itself but reflects with equal merit on the prosperity of the owner.

This Jailbot has been generously presented to the Association by Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, shipping and travel agents of Bahrain.

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Jalibot

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Bahrain

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Length
18 ft 2 in

Width
6 ft 7 in