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Digit wrote:The answer to that Clubs is that people see sailing as a precarious occupation. I am sick of hearing that early sailors crept along the coast lines for example. They did not.
Even in a storm the safest place is at sea, the great fear for sailors was the lee shore.
Even a dismasted ship, if it could maintain steerage, was not in any great danger.
Digit wrote:So what makes you think they were any different to us on that score Clubs.
I watched a programme the other other evening about the Press Gang during the French wars. The Royal Navy was rarely short of volunteers, which would have preferred, plodding behind a team of plow horses or the chance to make a LOT of money at sea.
Thousands voted with their feet and took the King's shilling!
even if that doesn't fit accepted dogma.
I am sick of hearing that early sailors crept along the coast lines for example. They did not.
Digit wrote:I don't know anything about it Clubs but I wouldn't be surprised. After all the Aztecs were expecting the Spaniard by all accounts and weren't surprised by the appearance, so it's difficult to explain that without accepting their version of previous visits by white men, even if that doesn't fit accepted dogma.
Digit wrote:Morning Min. Don't quote me as I might be wrong, but I believe the horizon at sea is 26 miles away, so any headland or other high point would be visible,weather permitting at a considerable distance whilst still retaining the safety of distance from shoal water.
One of the interesting points about CC's voyage was the fact that he took the fastest route, was that by chance, or as has been suggested in the past, was he working on information received?
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