[muawiyah]

The Japanese who arrived in Arizona in the 1300s definitely knew how to sail against the wind. No doubt they abandoned the practice living out in the desert. The Haida probably didn't consider it all that worthwhile since they did their whaling quite close to shore and could paddle back and forth in the absence of wind. I think I noticed a gasoline motor mounted on the side of one of their boats that went out whaling last year.

Still, the absence of an observation of a particular element of sailing technology does not mean it did not exist in the area.

[U S Army EOD]

I am talking about BC time. By 1300, everybody in Asia and Europe knew where everybody was plus trade required technology. I would guess the Japanese would have gone north to the Aleutians and worked their way down. However the books I have read on that, claims they were Chinese and not Japanese. They could have even been Koreans since they could sail from Korea to Japan at that time.