Divers Are About to Pull a 3,000-Year-Old Shipwreck From the Depths [Croatia]

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | June 16, 2023 | Sarah Kuta

[SunkenCiv]

Tough.

[mass55th]

I hadn’t even heard of hand-sewn boats. Amazing!!! Thank you!!

[MtnClimber]

Some 23 feet of the vessel—which is 39 feet long—are still in very good condition.

It should buff out.

[SunkenCiv]

Probably the main threat to sewn boats was a rip tide.

[Adder]

Hey! Neat! Granny knitted me a boat!

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe someone needed the knitted boat to look for pearls.

[M Kehoe]

“Probably the main threat to sewn boats was a rip tide.”

Ba da bing!

5.56mm

[SunkenCiv]

This is the best thread ever.

[SunkenCiv]

Clinker-built ships of the Vikings were often sewn boats.

[snip] In the North – both before and after the Viking Age – wooden boats have been built using a particular technique, which is characterised by the way in which the longitudinal planks overlap each other at their outer edge, where they are either sewn or riveted together. [/snip]

https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/news/unesco-have-inscribed-nordic-clinker-boat-traditions-on-the-list-of-intangible-heritage-of-humanity

[mass55th]

Thanks for the link!!

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[Bellflower]

Keep us posted, please.
Love the topic of old ships and boats!

[SunkenCiv]

Will do, and same here. Most of the perishable stuff from antiquity and prehistory vanished long ago. Ancient and even prehistoric watercraft were lost in largely undocumented events, and yet their traces sometimes survive in some form and quantity.

Plus, y'know, boats.

The ancient skipper had the same problems as modern one -- he's got the expense of acquisition and maintenance of the ship, plus the risk of operating it, and his idiot buddies show up with one small jug of wine and expect to be greeted as heroes...