One form of felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat with one or two lateen sails. Most-used in the eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and Iraq, they was once also a large fleet of feluccas in San Francisco.
Another form of felucca is a narrow, galley-built vessel with 2 or 3 lateen sails. Compare to polacca (square-rigged main mast) and polacre-xebec (square-rigged fore mast).
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