Interview Report

I had an interview with Saleh Ahmed Al Marzooqi, a friend of my father. He is in his early 60's. I asked him about his early years. He told me that he was a fisherman for some time of his life. Also that when he was young he used to fish for different types of seafood with his brothers Mohamed and Sultan. They were using sailing boats to sail to the sea. These sailing also used to transport goods. As time goes by they started to use these sailing boats for racing. I asked him how often he raced, his answer was that he was racing more often when it was not the fishing season. He said that the way that the boat works is it needs the wind that blows the sail of the boat or waves that moves the boat. One of my question to him was how to ensure winning in a race? The answer he gave was that before the race begins the crew of the sailing boat study the weather status to decide the appropriate path to get the best timing of finishing the race. Which it depends on the strength of the wind blow. I asked him if he participated in competitions that occurred here. his answer to the question was that he participated in a lot of competitions, but he never ranked in the first place in any race although he was very close to rank in the first place, an accident happened before passing the finish line. A ship crashed their boat, so that ended his joy to win a race. I also asked him if still participating in competitions. He said that he was racing in his 40's and 50's, but he stopped racing as he got in his 60's because it became very tiring to race again. He said it was very hard to make sailing boat back then, but it's very easy nowadays.