Arrived 12,000 miles from home

I arrived at Colombo greeted by Ishad and Sam. Ishad is Habib’s son 18 yrs old intelligent well spoken and thoughtful. Habib is the owner of Emerald Seas Marine and my partner in developing boats for export. Sam is ESM general manager barley speaks a word of English but nods his head when you speak as if he understands, but actually does not fully comprehend more than a few words spoken in English. Sam is my contact with Habib when Ishad is not around as he has traveled away to Egypt for college, and not coming back until he graduates in two more years. Habib I have only seen rarely since I have been here.
Later I will meet with the Minister to go over his plans to build Tuna fishing boats. The Tuna boats they have here are not like what they have anywhere else. Here and in Maldives they call them Dhoni. They are 80 feet to 110 feet. Instead of spools or radio buoys they have a wide open deck low to the water line where fisherman stand and cast out fishing lines then reel in tuna one by and and throw them into a hold in the middle of the wide open deck.

So far they have been making them from timber. My job is to make them from Fiberglass using temporary molds. Here is a picture of a Dhoni in the upper left. More images are coming