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A viking chap from Denmark says the Hjortspring boat of 400 BC was not used for long voyages. However, the Ferriby boat and Dover boat are evidently seaworthy designs (just).
Capt Bligh had 7 inches freeboard. Please advise me on your views about crossing the Channel in such boats.
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"With Captain Bligh in the boat were eighteen persons, and twenty-five remained on the HMS Bounty. The boat was 23 feet in length, 6 feet 9 inches in breadth, and 2 feet 9 inches in depth. When loaded with all these people and her stores, she had not seven inches of freeboard.
From the morning when the boat was cast adrift till forty-two days later, when her unhappy company were safely landed at Timor Indonesia,.. "
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"Flinders first sailed to Australia in 1795 for the British Navy . He and his friend George Bass (the ship's surgeon) bought an 8-foot-long boat called the "Tom Thumb" in order to explore the treacherous coastline of southern Australia. They first sailed south of Sydney (to Botany Bay) and rowed up the Georges River, and later to Lake Illawarra (100 km each way). "
"George Bass was granted permission to explore the southern coast and given a well fitted whale-boat, 28 feet 7 inches long (8.7 m), built in Sydney of native banksia timber. In this open boat with six volunteers and six weeks provisions he left Port Jackson on 3 December 1797. In the next eleven weeks, despite boisterous weather, he travelled some 1200 miles (1931 km), found the Shoalhaven River, Twofold Bay, Wilson's Promontory and Western Port ( Melbourne )."
A viking chap from Denmark says the Hjortspring boat of 400 BC was not used for long voyages. However, the Ferriby boat and Dover boat are evidently seaworthy designs (just).
Capt Bligh had 7 inches freeboard. Please advise me on your views about crossing the Channel in such boats.
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"With Captain Bligh in the boat were eighteen persons, and twenty-five remained on the HMS Bounty. The boat was 23 feet in length, 6 feet 9 inches in breadth, and 2 feet 9 inches in depth. When loaded with all these people and her stores, she had not seven inches of freeboard.
From the morning when the boat was cast adrift till forty-two days later, when her unhappy company were safely landed at Timor Indonesia,.. "
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"Flinders first sailed to Australia in 1795 for the British Navy . He and his friend George Bass (the ship's surgeon) bought an 8-foot-long boat called the "Tom Thumb" in order to explore the treacherous coastline of southern Australia. They first sailed south of Sydney (to Botany Bay) and rowed up the Georges River, and later to Lake Illawarra (100 km each way). "
"George Bass was granted permission to explore the southern coast and given a well fitted whale-boat, 28 feet 7 inches long (8.7 m), built in Sydney of native banksia timber. In this open boat with six volunteers and six weeks provisions he left Port Jackson on 3 December 1797. In the next eleven weeks, despite boisterous weather, he travelled some 1200 miles (1931 km), found the Shoalhaven River, Twofold Bay, Wilson's Promontory and Western Port ( Melbourne )."
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