Don 't worry, they'll make it.
Posted on 06/16/2008 3:02:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A replica of the Argo, the ship that according to legend carried Jason and the 50 Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, sailed Saturday from the central Greek city of Volos on a two-month journey to Venice in Italy.
Turkey's refusal to guarantee the 93.5-foot (28.5-meter) wooden ship safe passage through the Bosporus Strait meant that the ship will not reach its ancient predecessor's destination of Colchis, in what is modern-day Georgia, at the eastern end of the Black Sea. Its route, instead, will retrace part of the Argonauts' return trip...
The ship's crew comprises 50 oarsmen with another 22 on standby on a ship following the Argo, said Vangelis Constantinou, a spokesman for the project...
The ship was built according to known designs for warships during the Mycenaean era. The Argonauts' trip is said to have taken place in the 14th century BC, almost 200 years before the Trojan war. The ship includes a ram, used to attack and sink enemy ships.
The trip is scheduled to end in Venice on August 11.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com.my ...
Centuries after Jason mythed the boat, another team has a go
The Age | April 24, 2006 | Deborah Kyvrikosaios
Posted on 05/27/2007 9:23:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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I’m not surprised Turkey would refuse to allow passage. The ship is a hazard to navigation.
“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Argo.”
“Argo who?”
“Arr go jump in the lake!”
So the boat is just too slow and would hold up traffic too long in that busiest of straits?
I just don't see how you can let some nerds simply row on through . . . the Bosporus is less than a half mile wide in places.
It would really be cool if they fight a cyclops along the way.
Oh please.
Have you ever seen what passes for a ship on the Bosporus?!
“Other” politics are at play here.
I’m not talking about those ships I’m talking about the crappy ones that fishermen use from the 1940s the ones that can break/do break all the time, common to all the mediterranean ports.
Or the crappy cruise liners that nearly kill people daily.
I don’t want to get into the “other” politics, I just showered and don’t have the patience to roll in the mud right now.
It would seem to me that a toy boat like the Argo could hug the shore and stay out of the shipping lanes. Would the wake of passing ships be a problem? Perhaps insurance carriers objected?
:’) Different epic, but still funny.
:’D I just hope they don’t wind up poop side down.
Ah yes. Jason and the 50 Argonauts.
I saw them in concert once with my pal Homer. Homer didn’t see them, but he definitely heard them. He said they sounded better than The Sirens. How would he know, if he was telling the truth?
(ancient myth trivia quiz)
;’)
The paranoid Parastate of turkey’s constant state of insecurity pops up during the most interesting of events.
Muslim Turks have turned the Bosporus into the most polluted waterways in the world and the City or Constantinople - once the most beautiful of cities - into a hellish polluted dirty place.
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