Soon after sunrise each day the fishing fleet sets sail from the sheltered, natural harbour of Kisingitini on Pate Island. The traditional wooden sailing boats, called mashua, can be found at fishing villages throughout the Lamu Archipelago. Kisingitini is the centre of the island's fishing industry with crayfish being the fishermen's prized catch. The island is the largest of the Lamu Archipelago lying in the Indian Ocean just north of Lamu and 150 miles north-northeast of Mombasa.Dhow is the colloquial word used by most visitors for the wooden sailing ships of the East African coast although in reality a dhow is a much larger ocean-going vessel than either the medium sized Jahazi or smaller mashua fishing boats.