[No Truce With Kings]

“Columbus and others knew that when they went to America and prepared for the worst by taking tooks with them to build new boats.”

Assuming you meant tools instead of tooks, that is not very impressive. The tools required to build a seagoing ship in the late 15th century consisted of an axe, an adz, a saw and an auger. That's all. A ships’ carpenter that sailed without those deserved to be keelhauled. (And yes, that is an anachronistic punishment at that time.)

[muawiyah]

Remember the escape mechanism on the old spring driven or pendulum driven clocks ~ you just missed a "tic".

Wasn't the point that Columbus was terribly astute but that it was necessary to carry sufficient tools with you to BUILD ANOTHER BOAT.

No doubt there were numerous voyagers before him who forgot the tools ~ they didn't come back to tell the story to everybody else!