Building Pharoah's Ship

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Saw this on PBS last night, building and sailing a replica Egyptian vessel, was really interesting !

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pharaoh/

[hp18carr]

Sailing has been in mankind's blood from the beginning of time!

Terrence
Wilmington N.C.
Chrysler 26 1980
Pandora (for now)

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I meant to include the link to the preview video
http://video.pbs.org/video/1372895768/

I'll never complain about stepping the mast again. Or about how tippy my little C15 is...

[CaptainScott]

Yikes!
I'll stick to the more modern sailing ships!!

Scott

[Alanhod]

I watched the show and it was really interesting how they carved each massive planks of the hull like a sculptured jigsaw puzzle. I was surprised to see how well it sailed once the sails were raise. After watching them in the process of raising the sails I figured they were going to turtle the boat/ship. They kept dipping the square rigged sails first on one side and then the other at a very rapid rate. Then once they got the sails up and running with the wind they were stable.

I liked the captains comment when he first looked at the boat. "It looks like a really big salad bowl, a very pretty carved salad bowl. I'm a little afraid of sailing it."

It was very cool to see it actually work, and work well. Now that was good TV.

Thanks
Alan

[Mario G]

I wached the show and not impressed. oh the way the Egyptians built there ships is a marvel but that they took them apart and moved them 90 miles seems nuts , If they were smart they should have set up a marina and charged per foot for wet slips , they might still be around then...lol

I was amazed at the ropes lasting 4500 yrs and I have to replace some that I know are a few years old.

Thanks EE thats the type of things the 1st mate and I like to watch.