On Aug 16, 9:55 am, (N.L. Eckert) wrote:

And as far as Anglo/Viking boaters, it was the Arabs that taught us how
to sail.....

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too bad they let themselves get left behind. It must be all that
obsession with Islam. No time left anything else. I hear they still
sail the same types of boats up and down the coast of africa like they
did for thousands of years on trade routes.