NO,no,no!
You don't understand!
Deep water was a barrier, not a highway!
From todays news page.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/ ... 314_1.html
Boats.
For thousands of years, the most efficient way to move large cargos across long distances.
Egyptian Boats
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Re: Egyptian Boats
It's still the cheapest way.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
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Re: Egyptian Boats
Dear kbs2244,
How well founded is your knowledge of basic Bronze Age seamanship and navigation? Have you ever worked the sail and manned the oars of a large open wooden boat or learned how to reasonably navigate by simply sighting the sun and stars? The last place you want to be in a ship at sea in a storm is anywhere near a coastline where your craft could easily be blown onto rocks and destroyed as well as you meeting a quick and untimely death.
Are you so sure in your assumption of absolute knowledge on this?
Best.
W. Sheppard Baird
How well founded is your knowledge of basic Bronze Age seamanship and navigation? Have you ever worked the sail and manned the oars of a large open wooden boat or learned how to reasonably navigate by simply sighting the sun and stars? The last place you want to be in a ship at sea in a storm is anywhere near a coastline where your craft could easily be blown onto rocks and destroyed as well as you meeting a quick and untimely death.
Are you so sure in your assumption of absolute knowledge on this?
Best.
W. Sheppard Baird
Re: Egyptian Boats
To answer your questions, yes, I have.
Except for the rowing on anything over 15 feet.
But only since the Korean War, not in the Bronze age.
I am not that old.
But, excepting electronics, the basic technology hasn’t changed that much.
I know very well the best place in a big storm is either well upstream on a steep bluffed river or well off shore.
A port of call devoted to cargo transfer from blue water to brown water and tax collection, much like New Orleans in the US, is good evidence that the same knowledge was common in it’s day.
The mid-Mediterranean, deep water, ship wrecks are pretty good evidence that the merchantmen of the day were not afraid to take the direct route.
Even if it was out of sight of land and they had to sleep with nothing to see but a flat horizon.
As you mentioned, night sailing is actually the most accurate for navigation, due to easy star sighting.
My first 3 line were tongue in cheek.
Except for the rowing on anything over 15 feet.
But only since the Korean War, not in the Bronze age.
I am not that old.
But, excepting electronics, the basic technology hasn’t changed that much.
I know very well the best place in a big storm is either well upstream on a steep bluffed river or well off shore.
A port of call devoted to cargo transfer from blue water to brown water and tax collection, much like New Orleans in the US, is good evidence that the same knowledge was common in it’s day.
The mid-Mediterranean, deep water, ship wrecks are pretty good evidence that the merchantmen of the day were not afraid to take the direct route.
Even if it was out of sight of land and they had to sleep with nothing to see but a flat horizon.
As you mentioned, night sailing is actually the most accurate for navigation, due to easy star sighting.
My first 3 line were tongue in cheek.