Robert's Old Ships
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Of Caravela Latinas & Bowsprits
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The notion of bowsprits on caravela latina is an unusual one for me. On purely lateen rigged vessels, bowsprits should serve very little ...
Saturday, November 17, 2012
A New Caravel Considered
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As previously mentioned, there is a caravel building in Saint Augustine, the Espiritu, a caravela redonda from the early 16th century. I ...
Monday, November 12, 2012
Bruegel's Mystery Ships Revisited
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It was none other than Bjorn Landstrom in his classic "The Ship" that may have opened up another possible explanation for the Br...
Sunday, November 11, 2012
A Caravel for St. Augustine
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Not quite sure how I missed this, but apparently there is a caravel being built in St. Augustine. "Built", really, is not the te...
Monday, October 22, 2012
Bruegel's Galleons
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In the mid 16th century, Dutch artist Peter Bruegel did a series of ship engravings that give us an idea of what some of the vessels of th...
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Of "Clippers" & Columbus
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The word clipper ship has somehow come to be synonymous sailing ship. I've noted this for a couple of decades now. It does not matter w...
Friday, September 21, 2012
Some Thoughts On A Replaced Replica
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In 1957, two replica sailing ships were launched celebrating the colonization of North America by the English; the Mayflower, launched in...
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