Al-Gallaf meaning the carpenter or ship builder.
A ship builder for more than 30 years, he has built numerous boats for fishing, transporting and many other uses. He currently owns around 25 boats of different sizes for various purposes..
We met him in Muharraq during a photoshoot that's supposed to be inside the old house of Shaik Isa but it was closed because of the Milad or Prophet Mohammed's birthday.
He showed me the traditional way of drilling on the wood used for building Dhows.
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