(1) And on more than one occasion, a late winter storm had wiped out entire armadas of their felucca ships.(2) If you want something unusual and more intimate, try sailing in a felucca or explore the rest of Egypt with a day-return train or flight to Cairo.(3) They plan on buying a wooden boat, a felucca , in Khartoum to continue their journey.(4) The Egyptian river boat is known as a felucca and they can be hired along the bank.(5) The ships were the kind of swift feluccas preferred by the desert warlords, with odd-looking lateen sails and long, backswept oars pointing downwards into the water.