sailing (Other Keyword)

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A comparison of Sail Control Methods in Second Century Egypt and in Viking Gotland [Krampmacken] (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only O T P Roberts.

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Comparison of tacking and wearing performance between a Japanese traditional square rig and a Chinese lug rig (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Y Masuyama. A Sakurai. T Fukasawa. K Aoki.

Experimental nautical research: third millenium B.C. Egyptian sails (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R L Bowen.

Fair Winds and Following Seas: A Look into the Seafarer’s Life and the Romance of History (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher M McCarron.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Communities of seafarers around the world dedicate considerable efforts and resources in keeping an image of ancient tall ship sailing by building and operating vessels that bring different sailing traditions into present day. They engage in voyages that replicate the similar environments and conditions that sailors of long ago...

Laying Aloft in Modern Times: Exploring the Potential of Collaborative Work Between Nautical Archaeology and Tall Ship Organizations (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David H Livingstone. Annaliese Dempsey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Innovative Approaches to Finding Agency in Objects" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For those studying the act of sailing a vessel during the Age of Sail, roughly 1500-1900, details regarding a sailor’s day-to-day sailing experience, as well as the detailed mechanics of the operation of the vessel, can be frustratingly rare. Texts that do exist, in the form of rigging guides or sailor autobiographies for...

Practical Trials with Woollen Sails (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Max Vinner.

Review: Timewatch: Viking Voyage (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Kateřina Dvořáková.

Segeln mit einem Rahsegel (2003)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A Sauer.

Warwick in the Context of 17th Century Sail (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Inglis.

This paper examines rigging elements from the 1619 Warwick shipwreck in the broader context of 17th century sailing technology. Warwick's crew would have committed the majority of their efforts to maintaining the ship's rig and interacting with her sails. Although only a small assemblage of rigging elements survived the wrecking process, they provide important clues to how the ship's rig was designed and operated. Warwick's assemblage of rigging elements contains several varieties of three-hole...