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Replica Phoenician ship ends round-Africa journey (Video)
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| October 24, 2010
| Lina Sinjab
Posted on 10/24/2010 2:39:43 PM PDT by decimon
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10/24/2010 2:39:44 PM PDT
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decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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10/24/2010 2:40:26 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
2 and a half years? A piece of driftwood could have beat that! ;-)
To: Average Al
2 and a half years?Probably explains why such journeys weren't, as far as we know, common.
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10/24/2010 3:05:55 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
The galley slaves, must have been slow rowers.
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10/24/2010 3:13:53 PM PDT
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Venturer
To: Venturer
The galley slaves, must have been slow rowers.Aside from off of Somalia.
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posted on
10/24/2010 3:28:25 PM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
Sail bost in Malta taken from my window
Not much difference after 2,600 years
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posted on
10/24/2010 3:36:32 PM PDT
by
Cardhu
To: decimon; SunkenCiv; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
To: Cardhu
Sail bost in Malta taken from my window
Not much difference after 2,600 years Dang, you are old.
To: Cardhu
Thanks for the pics.
Not much difference after 2,600 years
Better sails.
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posted on
10/24/2010 3:41:56 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon; martin_fierro
Better sails. ...and a bigger Value Added Tax (VAT)
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posted on
10/24/2010 3:58:01 PM PDT
by
Cardhu
To: decimon
Actually, it doesn't explain that at all ~ rather the reverse. Fur traders used to leave central New York and arrive in central Saskatchewan in a year, and then buy furs and get back to central New York a year later ~ 2 year round trip just for really great furs.
A 2 year trip all the way around Africa ~ envision the riches they could pick up for a song.
I suspect the problem wasn't the duration, but the "take" as compared to the "risk". More than likely Phoenician boats could be seized by raiding parties along the shore with ease. Although Africans in Subsaharan Africa were fairly barbaric they were numerous and well versed in agriculture by the time the Phoenicians visited.
They might have let 'em skip on by on their first trip, but not the second!
Later civilizations weren't all that keen on sailing around Africa either.
Of Note: there are various seaworms that bore into and eat wooden boats WITH EASE. Columbus and others knew that when they went to America and prepared for the worst by taking tooks with them to build new boats. The earliest sailers going South discovered that problem I am sure.
Check out Teredo
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10/24/2010 4:37:21 PM PDT
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muawiyah
("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
To: decimon; martin_fierro; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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The Histories by Herodotus tr by George Rawlinson Book IV -- Melpomene As for Libya, we know it to be washed on all sides by the sea, except where it is attached to Asia. This discovery was first made by Necos, the Egyptian king, who on desisting from the canal which he had begun between the Nile and the Arabian gulf, sent to sea a number of ships manned by Phoenicians, with orders to make for the Pillars of Hercules, and return to Egypt through them, and by the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians took their departure from Egypt by way of the Erythraean sea, and so sailed into the southern ocean. When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; and thus it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage home. On their return, they declared -- I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may -- that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered.
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10/24/2010 8:07:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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10/24/2010 8:15:48 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; Now we know the real reason they pretty much always sailed within sight of land: they were looking for a good place to plant their next meals!
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10/24/2010 9:55:33 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Not bought, and nobody's bot.)
To: SunkenCiv
Columbus and others knew that when they went to America and prepared for the worst by taking tooks with them to build new boats Big mistake. Only the Buckland Hobbits who live east of the Brandywine River understand Boats. The Tooks live in West Farthing. on the opposite side of the Shire.
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10/25/2010 8:49:30 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(15 October 09: Where were you when America stopped to watch an empty balloon?)
To: muawiyah
“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.)
To: No Truce With Kings
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!
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10/25/2010 9:07:42 AM PDT
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muawiyah
("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
To: 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!
O-kaa-ay. If you say so, sport. I missed a tic. I just don’t see what is . . . remarkable . . . about Columbus’s Chips carrying a standard set of tools that anyone but an incompetent would have carried. It’s not like building a new ship after the one an explorer has been lost is an unusual story even, or especially in the Age of Exploration.
No doubt some people today would find it necessary to be reminded to carry sufficient tools with you to BUILD ANOTHER BOAT, but few people did back then, and few people that I associate with today would find the reminder necessary. What other profound advice do you have? Check your tire pressure and make sure you have gas in the tank before starting a cross-country trip? Or maybe have a few spare batteries for your flashlight because the power fails occasionally?
Anyhow could you please expand upon why you find this to be somehow significant. I sure can’t figure it out.
To: No Truce With Kings
once upon a time a gigantic ship came up the Potomac and turned around. Very amazing show.
They failed to bring tools with them to build another.
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posted on
10/25/2010 12:09:30 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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