Dubai has added the ‘Largest wooden Arabic dhow’ – 91.47m long and 20.41m wide – to its list of world records as the feat was verified by Guinness World Records on Wednesday in Dubai. The enormous dhow is named ‘Obaid’ after Obaid Jumaa Bin Majid Al Falasi, an Emirati shipbuilder who began an apprenticeship at the age of nine in the mid-1940s. It is the length and almost half the width of a standard American football field, floating over the Indian Ocean. Hypothetically speaking, balancing this huge structure on either its bow or stern vertically would make this dhow stand almost as tall as the Big Ben in London.