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https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/bahamas-treasure-found-in-iconic-17th-century-spanish-shipwreck/
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a few links for those interested in sailing and boat history in Scotland This was posted by my friend Alan H on another forum. I thought you all might find it interesting! I know I sure did. the Sail Caledonia small boat RAID. http://www.sailcaledonia.org/ "Fifies"...the last working dipping luggers. This is "Reaper" http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/reaper/ Commun Birlinn...the sail and oar article is pretty interesting. http://galgael.org/birlinn/ William Fife III, probably Scotlands best known yacht designer. http://www.butesonsa...o.uk/fife.shtml
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I ran across this animation that shows how to tie onto a cleat and thought that it might be helpful...
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God Bless them http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1665339
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Aye, Sir Henry, he were hard on his ships, so he were...seems he lost some off Panama...everyone looked, but couldn't find 'em at all... http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/04/7245795-capt-morgans-lost-fleet-found
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Found this and thought it was worth sharing.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SHIPWRECK_FOUND?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
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PROVIDENCE fell over at the Newport shipyard in late January in a winter storm. Her mast broke and a jackstand pushed through the port side. We are making temporary repairs in order to move the boat to another shipyard. We purchased all the Douglas fir trees in Aberdeen, Washington for the new mast and spars. Looking to sell the boat as a project. All the rigging and metal work was saved and is reuseable. The hull is solid fiberglass and easily repaired. Asking price is $295,000. I would gladly help advise a new owner with re-rigging the boat. Thanks, Thorpe Leeson, 401-241-6965 Thorpe1@aol.com
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Anybody who might be an expert or knowledgeable please contact us helping to identify a wreck
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Someone in the Northeast should jump on this: http://maine.craigslist.org/boa/5180689302.html
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Does anyone have any place that may have the plans for the schooner "The Lively". It was purchased by Sam Houston and was used to bring the first settlers to Texas from New Orleans. Accounting this link will take you to an accounting of one of the passengers who was a surveyor. It sank in 1830 off the Texas coast. My hope is to get the plans and then garner funding to rebuild this boat and dock it with the Allissa in Galveston.
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Well I have finally started the sailboat and as I promised I was going to share pictures. So I am going to try this and see.
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Ran across something interesting that was bugging me about a mythbuster episode, the one where they test if you can slide down a sail using a knife. The problem was that they would have the knife pulled loose from their hand when they hit the reef band. Well I ran across the following bit of information in a book that I got my dad many years ago. I was checking out the section on sail construction and found the following. from "Historic Ship Models" by Wolfram zu Mondfeld Page 260; speaking of Reefs and Bonnets, ""The Bonnet came from the Mediterranean area ............and by the beginning of the 15th century it had displace the reef. The latter was reintroduced i…
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--disregaurd this--
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Wrecks to riches: Siren song of treasure hunt A Bucks salvage firm went public after a big find, but investors in sea hunts shouldn't be holding their breath. By Thomas Ginsberg Inquirer Staff Writer Taking a company public is risky. Searching for buried treasure is chancier. Staking a claim on government artifacts may be plain lunacy. Put them together, however, and you have the makings of a viable treasure-hunting business. Or so hopes a group of Bucks County entrepreneurs, who took their shipwreck salvage business public last year and now have an international fracas on their hands. Sovereign Exploration Associates International Inc., of Newtown, believes it has …
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Museum presents documentary about legendary schooner captain This was a great little article about a footnote in history that I felt people here would appreciate. I just wish the film would make it's way to Juneau! Coastie
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The Age of Sail Maritime Alliance is a 501©3 not-for-profit historical and educational organization that was formed in 2008 to help organize and support 18th and early 19th century living history maritime events. The ASMA utilizes period boats and other maritime resources to help teach and portray this facet of our history, and a great emphasis is placed on nautical skills, practical seamanship and safety. Membership in the ASMA is open to all living history maritime impressions from the Seven Years War, the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Anyone interested in joining is encouraged to read the FAQ section of this website. Each year the ASMA sanctions a number…
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_REVOLUTIONARY_NAVAL_MYSTERY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US BOSTON (AP) -- Somewhere along an industrial stretch of river pocked with rotting piers and towering salt piles north of Boston lies the answer to one of the great riddles of the Revolutionary war. Where is the final resting place of the British schooner, the HMS Diana?
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http://www.bruzelius.info/nautica/Shipbuil...717b)_p185.html
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""Historians believe they have raised England's only surviving 'state pirate ship' from the bottom of the Thames estuary after 400 years. Most of the time the Cherabin led an honest existence, trading between England and Turkey for the Levant Company before it sank fully-laden in a storm in 1603. But behind this peaceful image lay a sinister double life - plundering other nations' traders in 'terrorist' raids which were signed and sealed by the High Court of Admiralty."" Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724651/The-Queen-s-pirates-Ship-plundered-thousands-treasure-Renaissance-England-Thames-400-years.html#ixzz3BA0ePz4W
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Expedition Aims to Find Lost Slave Ship Sat Aug 21, 7:34 AM ET By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Archaeologists are set to begin an expedition this month in hopes of finding a Spanish ship that wrecked along the jagged reefs off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 carrying a cargo of African slaves. The story of the Trouvadore is unusual because all 193 slaves made it to shore, and all but one survived to see their freedom granted by a British government that had just outlawed slavery. Most settled in the arid, low-lying islands and began new lives working its salt ponds and raising families. The shipwreck holds particular signifi…
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A great article that goes in to not only the ship, its history and relevancy to Canada and Britain, but more importantly (and somewhat applicable to any GAoP shipwreck as well), the legalities of excavating the wreck. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/09/09/franklin_expedition_recovery_of_shipwreck_artifacts_bodies_must_follow_diplomatic_agreement.html And another good article: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/09/10/franklin_mission_mystery_hugely_significant_british_experts_says.html
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BEFORE the Pirates go out to sea, they give notice to every one that goes upon the voyage, of the day on which they ought precisley to embark, intimating also to them their obligation of bringing each man in particular so many pounds of powder and bullets as they think necessary for that expedition. Being all come on board, they join together in council, concerning what place they ought first to go to wherein to get provisions - especially of flesh, seeing they scarce eat anything else. And of this the most common sort among them is pork. The next food is tor- toises, which they are accustomed to salt a little. Sometimes they reso…
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These quotes from a June 10, 2013 HuffPost Detroit article. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/lake-michigan-shipwreck-griffin-_n_3384312.html "During its maiden voyage in September 1679, the Griffin departed from the area near present-day Green Bay, Wis. Carrying a crew of six and cargo of furs, the ship was never seen again." "The Griffin was the first full-sized ship to sail on the Great Lakes, and its fate is one of the Great Lakes' most enduring mysteries." "The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the state archaeologist's office approved a plan by Great Lakes Exploration Group, which hopes to identify the vessel as the Griffin"
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