Re: The silly season approaches, reed boat to sail from New Jersey to Spain.

On May 26, 3:02 pm, Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 25, 11:58?pm, "DavidE.Powell"



http://www.cruisingworld.com/article.jsp?ID=52180&typeID=393&catID=559

Well good for him, a Kon Tiki type thing sounds cool, if anything he
is smart to start in NJ because we have so many Coast Guard folks
here. Be cool as all if he can do it. I hope that the weather holds
for him and he makes it. If he opts not to do it...

He can stay here. He won't be the wierdest guy in Jersey by far and he
will fit right in.

If he has to scuttle the boat he should do it in Cape May Harbor. With
all the other boats left to sink there no one would notice. Hope he
makes it though, that would be good stuff.

I remember Frances Chichester being scathing of the modern Yank. You
don't sound like an USAan. Or are you more the type likely to have
been found ten a penny in a much earlier century?

Not sure, is that a good or a bad thing?

As it happens Thor Heyerdal did most of the painful work on the way
not to build those things and if it is made in the right way then it
is likely to stay afloat long enough to make it.

True that, there is that data for the guy. He also has the charts to
go by of currents and it isn't a bad time of year for the Atlantic
storm-wise, especially with modern gear and radios.

The problem Herdahl had was the Peruvian (or whoever) builders
insisted on chopping off the rear of the boat, contradicting his ideas
about design.

Oof. That will do it.

If it can sail into the wind the journey should be possible but why
would the ancients have set off from the northern Americas?

The bulk of advanced (or sophisticated) development was in the
southern reaches and the most likely home port would have been Africa
not Spain.

Just thinking Phoenecians or Egyptians, they might have sailed out of
the Mediterranean past Gibraltar, pretty near to Spain. You do have a
point, I hadn't heard about Europe much in that time frame as opposed
to some areas, just my background of what I have studied, heard etc.
At any rate it is a fascinating theory.

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