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Ancient Ships seaworthyness
Bill Kearney wrote: Yeah, you have to better define what you're requirements would be. Getting a lone man across the ocean isn't a big deal, as Heyerdahl proved in Kon-Tiki. Getting a full crew and gear suitable for exploring and trade with locals is another matter entirely. That is what I mean, a full crew and gear. "Tim" wrote in message oups.com... I'm sure there were. I mean, If a cobbled raft (KonTiki) could sail the Pacific, and Vikings could weather the North Atlantic in big row boats with partial wind power, I'm sure somebody could come up with something to navigate the "Horns" of S. America and Africa. john0714 wrote: On Sep. 6, 1522 the Spanish ship Victoria of the Magellan exposition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth. It even managed to sail thousands of miles of open sea. IIRC it is possible to circumnavigate the Earth and never get more than 2300 miles from land, the stretch between Easter Island and South America, the next largest stretch is less than 1900 miles between the Pitcairn Islands and Easter Island. Otherwise one can rermain much closer to land. Was the Victoria the first ship capable of sailing around the world had the crew known what to do? I wonder when the first ships seaworthworthy enough to do so were built? It seems to me the hardest part for the best ships of two thousand years ago would be the stretch from Brazil around the horn to the Pitcairn Islands. Were any of the ships that ancient seaworthy enough to do so? |
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