If you think you sail an old boat, well you should think again.

[Concerto]

If you think you sail an old boat, well you should think again. The remains of an old boat, estimated to be 4,000 years old, have been discovered in Eire by a schoolboy.

Schoolboy Cathal gets a hands-on history lesson with 4,000-year-old boat

 

[oldmanofthehills]

If you think you sail an old boat, well you should think again. The remains of an old boat, estimated to be 4,000 years old, have been discovered in Eire by a schoolboy.

Schoolboy Cathal gets a hands-on history lesson with 4,000-year-old boat

Only needs a bit of restoration, hardly worse than many I have seen rotting in Parish Wharf or Boatyard. Im sure some would be sailor would try and rebuild it

 

[cmedsailor]

Ancient SUP?

 

[Frogmogman]

The thing I most enjoyed when I visited the Pyramids at Giza was Khufu's ship. Built in 2500bc, it was discovered buried in a pit in 1954. The grass lashings which had held it together had disintegrated, but the cedar planking was still in remarkable condition. It was painstakingly reconstructed over a number of years by a gentleman called Ahmed Youssef Moustafa. At 143 ft long it's an extraordinary thing, and the building which has been constructed to house it is well lit & allows the visitor to get really close up to it.

We visited Cairo in November 2011, as our daughter was doing a year at University there for her arabic degree. While we were there, it all kicked off again in Tahrir Square, so we were almost alone at all of the tourist attractions we visited.

 

[pvb]

If you think you sail an old boat, well you should think again. The remains of an old boat, estimated to be 4,000 years old, have been discovered in Eire by a schoolboy.

Was it a Westerly?

 

[Resolution]

Was it a Westerly?

No but its hull shape was the inspiration for theAnderson 22.

 

[Concerto]

Was it a Westerly?

It was certainly west of me and you, so must be westerly.

 

[Sandy]

If you think you sail an old boat, well you should think again. The remains of an old boat, estimated to be 4,000 years old, have been discovered in Eire by a schoolboy.

Schoolboy Cathal gets a hands-on history lesson with 4,000-year-old boat

I bet it was un-sailable. Thankfully my old boat still sails.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Was it a Westerly?

A buried Westerly would be in much better condition, why there are westerlies build just after the last ice age still down in the boatyard near me

 

[banger]

Naar it's an old gaffer, their boats are even older

 

[AntarcticPilot]

A buried Westerly would be in much better condition, why there are westerlies build just after the last ice age still down in the boatyard near me

Ice age? Ice age? Merely yesterday! I thought Westerlies dated back to the Palaeozoic at least!

 

[oldmanofthehills]

The early model change is indicated by dropping of dinosaur skin sail for hairy mammoth skin.