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Toy Boats
Bath time fun with boats and pirates!
Wood Boats
This is a really cute hand crafted wood boat. These can be made custom with just about anything on them.
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Rubber band powered boats can be fun.
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Walnut ships
Creativity for Kids 202286 Make Your Own Pirate Ship Activity
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Cork Boats
If you think that a handmade wood boat for your kit is too difficult of a task, take a look at this wood Ferrari F50 Boat.
Paper Boats - aka Origami Boats and Ships and Papercraft Ships
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Draw two or more circles. Cut to the center of each circle and glue together for a simple and stable boat. If you draw the lines very lightly and on the backside of the boat, they will not be very noticeable.
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Old Classic. Ninjas sold separately.
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Add a toothpick and you get a fancy sailboat
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Balloon, straw and paper plate
Great for naval warfare games
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greywolf.critter.net POTSM_ShipModels_Sloops.pdf
Another simple to make ship that allows you to make entire fleet with very little effort.
greywolf.critter.net POTSM_ShipFlats_Sloops.pdf
Several printable ships here.
The Black Pearl
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Foam Ships
Closed cell foam floats and doesn't hurt when it is thrown at you or used as a bludgeon.
Fun Foam Pirate Ship Kit
3-D Floating Foam Ship Craft Kit
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Core'dinations Deluxe 3 D Foam Kit Pirate Ship
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Pottery Barn Pirate Ship Foam World
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Plastic Ships
Basic Plastic ships are a good start for bath time fun. The very a bit in quality and are generally, low in quality. Most are not weighted and will easily roll over, or even list and sink. Many will trap moisture inside and grow mold is not regularly cleaned out with bleach and water. Regardless, they can provider a good amount of fun for younger children.
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Here is a cute self propelled boat with a pirate theme that seems perfect for bath time and pond alike. But due to its poor design, it will list to one side, fill with water and sink in no time. Modification with a stainless ballast may help if you are up to it and just have to have a pirate ship for the bath.
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The Fisher-Price Backyardigans Pirate Tub Time Adventure Ship has a few design flaws and got really poor reviews. That said, If you have a little one who loves the Backyardigans, this tub toy is a must. A little glue or string should fix the loose mast and a stainless washer or red poker chip will make a good base of the figures so that they don't fall over as much on the rocking ship. Good luck finding one.
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Lego Ships
The Duplo Pirate ships are pretty nice. They float and have wheels to allow for pirate adventures on both solid and liquid play surfaces.
The large 7880 Duplo Pirate ships is pretty remarkable. It comes with 4 pirates with swords, Chinese butcher knife, musket, hook and bomb. These are unfortunately difficult to find in the US, but far easier to find in the UK. Unfortunately, the total weight of this set is just over 2 kilos, which can make shipping a bit expensive.
The small 7881 Duplo Pirate ship is pretty nice and a little more reasonable for a smaller play area or even a tub.
Here is the Mega Bloks Pirates of the Caribbean Empress sails, which can be used as templates for a Lego or other Chinese Junk project. It's not a perfect representation of true Junk sail, but looks quite nice for a toy and would be very easy to assemble.
Simply scale to size, cut and add rods for this look:
Instruction and pictures of parts here.
Regular Lego ships can be fun too, for older kids due to the many pieces.
Playmobil Boats
These are pretty nice with great detail for older kids. There are also several models to choose from and and easy to find, sometimes for great prices.
Wargaming Ships
These ships are made for the purpose of playing table top naval battle that don't involve a 4 year old child smashing ships together. The are often handcrafted of various media, including cardboard, plastic sheets and foamboard. Flat surfaces allow for positioning of miniatures and construction is generally focused at esthetics or game play and not for durability and abuse.
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25/28mm Scale
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This pirate ship is based on the model by Gary Chalk from Wargames Illustrated Magazine (#138), “How to scratchbuild Brigantines from card and wood“
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This beauty is made from the wood of a Ochroma pyramidale (balsa tree). It is really nice to look at and would be great for a pirate or naval wargame. It unfortunately wouldn't last 5 minutes of play with a small child.
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Tiny Scale
Wargaming ship also come in very small scale to allow for larger naval battles in smaller places
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Manufactures
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blazeaway.com.au Chinese junks and an Arab Dhow
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cianty-tabletop.blogspot Setting Sail: Collecting Ships for Tabletop Games - Huge list of ships with great information
Pop Pop Boats (aka Putt Putt Boat)
Invented in 1881 and predating battery powered boats, these simple to make boats are still popular in developing countries and among households interested in novelties, science and/or cool toys. You simple need a metal heat sink, something that floats and something that burns.
The heat sink can be a simple coil of copper tubing or something fancier. Aluminum cans can be shaped into all sorts of acceptable "motors".
The boat itself can be made from tin cans, juice boxes, wood, foam and just about anything that is water resistant.
The heat source can be a simple tea light, a simple vegetable oil candle, a small block of solid chemical fuel or something more complex, such as a propane burner.
Step by Step instructions on making the above pop pop boat from milk boxes, pop cans and straws. Templates and videos included.
Made from metal cans and a bit of brazing.
Here you can buy commercially made boats and motors.
This is more of a Jet powered steam boat made for a piece of wood, 2 tea light candles, copper wire, a cigar case and a cork.
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Here's a very simple juice box boat.
Foam block boat
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Here is a very simple anchovy can boat. Just watch those razor sharp edges.
Ship Designs
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The sail plans of sailing vessels were many and varied. Beside differences in original design, a ship might undergo a number of changes, depending upon the whims of her owner, captain, or builder, the trade she was used in, or local traditions. These changes were introduced to improve sailing qualities and to provide a rig that could be handled by a smaller crew, thus paying higher returns to shareholders.
Sailing ship rigs can be divided into a handful of broad categories. These include the:
"fore and aft rig" - the sails lie along the same plane as the ship's fore and aft line
"square rig" - sails are rigged athwart (across) the ship
Lanteen Sails - uses primarily triangle shaped Lanteen sails
Junk - Asian ships with special square or wing shaped sails supported with multiple lengths of bamboo battens
Each rig had certain advantages.
The Fore & Aft Rig (aka Schooner)
The fore and aft rig, or schooner rig, required only a small crew, and was generally used in the coastal and fishing trades. Ships with this rig could point higher into the wind and were usually more maneuverable when working in the changing winds along the coast. There are less efficient compared to square rigged ships with tail wind (running). The rig was not limited to coastal schooners, and big fore-and-afters could be seen plying across the Western Ocean bound for European ports, the West Indies, or South America.
Compared to square sailed rigs, fore and aft rigs has larger sail which makes them prone to sail and cordage tearing in high winds or if hit by a cannon ball.
Sloop A fore and aft rigged vessel with one mast is a sloop. In the early 1800s some large sloops traded with the West Indies, but most sloops in the 19th century were small inshore fishing vessels. In the 20th century, sloops became the most popular rig for yachts.
The Sloop was fast, agile, and had a shallow draft. Her size could be as large as 100 tons. She was generally rigged with a large mainsail which was attached to a spar above, to the mast on its foremost edge, and to a long boom below. She could sport additional sails both square and lateen-rigged. She was used mainly in the Caribbean and Atlantic. Today's sailing Yacht is essentially a sloop.
The Naval Sloop
The Naval Sloop was basically a Sloop with more guns and slightly larger. The Naval Sloop was a pirate hunting ship, with a crew of 70 to man this 113 ton, 65 foot fighting ship. The ship is "sharp-ended" to allow for faster attack and is fit with 7 pairs of oars (put through the gun ports) to allow for chase without wind. A well trained crew could fire the 12 nine pound cannons about twice every three minutes.
Schooner
Perhaps the best known ship, the Schooner is a little of all of the best features in a pirate ship. Unique to the Schooner is a very narrow hull and shallow draft. It has two or more masts with fore and aft sails. The pirates of the North American coast and Caribbean were partial to the Schooner because, for a 100 ton ship loaded with 8 cannons, 75 pirates, and 4 swivel guns, it was still small enough to navigate the shoal waters and to hide in remote coves. The Schooner could also reach 11 knots in a good wind. In short, it was a small, quick, and sturdy work-horse for gentlemen of fortune. the first schooner was being launched at Gloucester, Mass., about 1713.
Grand Bank Fishing Schooner
Similar to the famous Bluenose, this example has addition to all the normal lower sails, a main gaff topsail and a fisherman's staysail set between the masts.
Two Masted Fishing Schooner in winter rig. Her topmast and all light upper canvas have been struck, and sent ashore.
Square Topsail Schooner a combination of fore and aft sails and small square sails. They were popular for coastal trading in the early 1800s. Prince Edward Island built a number of topsail schooners and many were sold in Great Britain. A version with raked masts, called the Baltimore Clipper, was much favored by privateersmen in the War of 1812.
Coastal Schooner, the work horse of our coastal trade. She was probably not much more than a hundred tons, and carried everything from timber and coal to bricks, general cargo, and a load of hay to offshore island communities. Our schooner is shown with only a main topmast, but many also carried a fore topmast. Note the yawl boat towing astern.
Ketch A two masted sailing vessel where the mizzen mast is ahead of the rudder. The rig is similar to a schooner but the main mast (the tallest mast) is the first mast, not the second mast. Ketches were common in 19th century Europe but rare in Nova Scotia until they became very popular for yachts in the 20th century.
Four Masted Schooner shown at anchor. This design attempted to reduce individual sail area, raise tonnage, and still manage with a small crew. In the early days sails were hoisted by hand, but gradually the gasoline hoisting engine was introduced, saving work, wages, and food. She could operate with eight hands, and reached 500 to 700 tons. At the turn of the century these schooners were used in the coastal trade between Canada and the United States, the West Indies, South America, and some trans-Atlantic voyages were made to Europe and West Africa. Nova Scotians built and operated between seven and eight hundred big schooners, but by World War I most had passed out of the picture. Along the New England coast a number of five and six masted schooners were built, plus one seven master, the steel hulled Thomas W. Lawson.
Tern Schooner a three master built in great numbers all along our shores between 1880 and 1920. These vessels were cargo carriers of between 200 and 400 tons, requiring a crew of six to eight. Our Tern is shown with all sails set except staysails between the masts. As the years went by these softwood vessels would become waterlogged, sails would wear out, and spars break. With the inroads made by the steamer, the old schooners were hard pressed to find a cargo. A few did survive until World War II.
Whale Boat
Marcorni Cutter
The Square Rig
The square rig was normally an offshore rig used by vessels making long ocean passages and taking advantage of the prevailing wind and current patterns of the globe. These square rigs are at disadvantage when sailing into the wind (beating) while being better suited for tail wind sailing (running). They can use smaller and more sails than a fore and aft rig which reduced the incidence of tearing in high winds and when hit by a cannonball. Damage from a cannonball hit would also be limited to a smaller sail area compared to hit on a fore and aft rig with large sails.
These ships varied in size from the small handy brigantines and brigs of a couple of hundred tons to the great full rigged ships and barques of over two thousand tons. The square rig was also seen in the coastal trade, where brigs plied their trade up and down the eastern seaboard.
Carrack
A carrack or nau was a three- or four-masted sailing ship developed in 15th century Western Europe for use in the Atlantic Ocean. It had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. It was first designed and used by the Portuguese, and later by the Spanish, to explore and map the world. It was usually square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
Carracks were ocean-going ships: large enough to be stable in heavy seas, and roomy enough to carry provisions for long voyages. Specific features of the carrack were its rounded stern, with the planks curving around from the sides to the rudder post, the forecastle located directly above the stem, with the bow sprit rising from its top -- an arrangement that had been unaltered since the first "battlements" had been installed on the bow of a sailing warship -- and the aftcastle that formed an integral part of the hull.
These spacious vessels offered room for a large crew and provisions as well as for cargo to be brought back home. This made the carrack the definitive beast of burden of the Age of Exploration. Magellan, for example, had an all-carrack fleet with which he set to circumnavigate the globe in 1519. Cordell had several carracks in his fleet on his Maztica expedition. And Columbus' flagship Santa Maria was a carrack of 100 tons.
Fluyt (Dutch Flute)
A fluyt, fluit, or flute is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed as a dedicated cargo vessel. Originating from the Netherlands in the 16th century, the vessel was designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery with the maximum of space and crew efficiency. This inexpensive ship could be built in large numbers. It usually carried 12 to 15 cannons, but was still a somewhat easy target for pirates. Nonetheless, the fluyt was a significant factor in the 17th century rise of the Dutch seaborne empire.
Primarily a prize for the shipping world, the Flute was an impressive 300 ton, 80 foot ship that proved inexpensive to build as well as man. The Flute needed only a dozen seamen. With a flat bottom, broad beams, and a round stern, this ship soon became the favored model of a cargo ship. A large part of the popularity of the Flute for commerce was her incredible cargo capacity; about 150% that of similar ships. In this, they soon became a common prey for savvy pirate.
Merchant (Pink)
There were two classifications of Pink. The first was a small, flat-bottomed ship with a narrow stern. This ship was derived from the Italian pinco. It was used primarily in the Mediterranean as a cargo ship. In the Atlantic the word pink was used to describe any small ship with a narrow stern, having derived from the Dutch word pincke. They were generally square-rigged and used as merchantmen and warships. They were a favorite target of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Square Rigged Carrier
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries commercial ships were generally called "merchant ships", however mariners reserved such a term for the three masted, square rigged carrier. These ships were large and intended for passengers and cargo. The carrier was a 280 ton ship measuring 80 feet in length. While such a ship could be armed with up to 16 cannons, it is doubtful that a typical crew of about 20 could manage more than three or four such guns. This ship sports finer lines and a little more sail power than the Dutch Flute and could make a trip from England to America in about 4 weeks.
Frigate
Around 1700, the English began building a class of warship which was only second in size to the Ship-of-the-Line (battleship). Frigates were three-masted with a raised forecastle and quarterdeck. They had anywhere from 28 to 38 guns on her deck. They were faster than the ship-of-the-lines and were used for escort purposes. They were sometimes used to hunt pirates. Only a few pirates were ever in command of a frigate as most pirates exercised discretion and withdrew rather than do battle with a Frigate.
Galleon
Galleons were large ships meant for transporting cargo. Galleons were sluggish behemoths, not able to sail into or near the wind. The Spanish treasure fleets were made of these ships. Although they were sluggish, they weren't the easy target you would expect as they could carry heavy cannons, making a direct assault upon them difficult. They had two to three decks. Most had three masts, forward masts being square-rigged, lateen-sails on the mizzenmast, and a small square sail on her high-rising bow sprit. Some galleons sported 4 masts but these were an exception to the rule.
Black Pearl (Galleon) Pirates of the Caribbean
The Black Pearl was an infamous pirate galleon originally a merchant ship owned and operated by the East India Trading Company under the name Wicked Wench. Command was first given to Jack Sparrow who fulfilled many contracts on the Company's behalf. However, after Jack refused to carry out a certain task for his East India Trading Company superior Cutler Beckett, Beckett ordered the Wench set alight and sunk and her captain forever branded as a pirate. After failing to rescue the Wench, Sparrow struck a bargain with the ghostly captain of the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones. Jones returned the ship to Jack in near perfect condition except for the permanently charred hull. This prompted Jack to paint the Wench black and rename her the Black Pearl.
Flying Dutchman (Galleon) Pirates of the Caribbean
The Flying Dutchman was an infamous supernatural galleon. The Dutchman was first given to Davy Jones by his love, the sea goddess Calypso, who granted Jones captaincy with the duty of ferrying the souls who die at sea into the next world for ten years. After these ten years were up, Jones would be free to return to Calypso, who promised to meet him on land after his duty was complete. However, Calypso betrayed Jones, which resulted in Jones cutting out his still-beating heart, and locking it in the Dead Man's Chest. Jones abandoned his duty, instead to wreak havoc on the seas, forcing dying sailors into one hundred years of service aboard the Flying Dutchman and unleashing the Kraken upon merchant and pirate vessels alike.
Man-O-War (Ship-Of-The-Line)
These ships were the "heavy-guns" of the fleet. They resembled galleons in design, but sported heavy fire-power with an average of 65 guns. It was not uncommon to have over 100 guns. They were around 1,000 tons and had 3 masts, which were square-rigged, except for a lateen sail on her aft-mast. Only the three major sea-powers of the time (Spain, England, and France) had an extensive use of these ships.
HMS Endeavour (Ship of the Line) Pirates of the Caribbean
The HMS Endeavour was the ship of the line that convoyed Lord Beckett to Port Royal for the arrest of William Turner, Elizabeth Swann and James Norrington.
Brigantine, a two masted vessel square rigged on the foremast, with fore-and-aft sails on the mainmast. The silhouette drawing shows a typical Bluenose softwood vessel of about 220 tons, similar to the Spencers Island built Amazon which later became the famous mystery ship Mary Celeste. The brigantine is shown with two staysails set between the masts.
The brigantine was the second most popular type of ship built in the American colonies before 1775. It was a vessel that could be of various sizes, usually in the range of 30 to 150 tons burden, generally a two masted ship, square-rigged on the foremast, and having a fore-and-aft main sail on the main mast and a square main topsail. After 1720 the main square topsail was omitted in most brigantines.
Swifter and more maneuverable than larger ships, the brigantine was often employed for purposes of piracy, espionage, and reconnoitering, or as an attendant upon larger ships for protection.
The Naval Snow
Much like the Naval Square Rigged Brigantine, the Naval Snow was distinguished by her for and aft trysail. This was a preferred ship for the Royal Navy in that, for a 90 ton, 60 foot ship, it could manage well in a light quartering wind. The crew of up to 80 had at its disposal 8 six pound guns that rested behind the canvas strung amidships over the open bulwarks. This was a common patrol ship when the navy finally set to deter pirates from their self determined duty.
Brig, a two masted vessel square rigged on both masts. The brig is a very old and efficient sailing rig, and the class was still in use up to the very end of commercial sailing ships. Only a few brigs were built in Nova Scotia yards, but they were very common in European waters.
Barquentine
This is a vessel with the foremast rigged square, and the other masts rigged fore and aft. This vessel above is similar to the Maid of England of 750 tons built at Grosses Coques in 1919. She was the last Canadian commercial vessel to carry a square rig, being abandoned at sea in 1928. Only a small number of this type were built locally.
Barque or Bark , usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft. The four masted barque was a relatively common rig on the oceans, but only two were built in Canada. The John M. Blaikie was launched in 1885 at Great Village, and the Kings County launched in 1890 at Kingsport. The barque was a popular rig, and more of this type were built than all other square rigs combined. The big Maitland barque Calburga was the last British North American square rigger of large tonnage to be on the Canadian registry; she was lost off the coast of Wales in November 1915.
Full Rigged Ship, square rigged on all masts. Staysails could be set between the masts. Outboard of the square sails might be set studdingsails, and above the royals (uppermost sails) might be set sails with such names as skysail, moonraker, Trust to God, or Angel Whispers. The ship William D. Lawrence, built at Maitland N.S. in 1874, was the largest wooden sailing ship ever built in Canada. Towards the end of their careers some ships were reduced to barque rig. Many were "sold foreign" and many others simply were "lost without trace" or abandoned at sea.
Lanteen Triangular Sails
A lateen or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction.
Dating back to Roman navigation, the lateen became the favorite sail of the Age of Discovery. It is common in the Mediterranean, the upper Nile, and the northwestern parts of the Indian Ocean, where it is the standard rig for feluccas and dhows.
These are particularly suited for the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean and for sailing into the wind.
They are often thought of as Arabic in design, but there is debate regarding whether this design came from Portugal to the Middle East or the the other way around.
The advantage of the lateen rig compared to a square rig is that it rises better towards the wind. A lateen-rigged vessel is far more maneuverable than a square-rigged vessel. The lateen rig also enables tacking and beating to the wind. While a lateen rig is more difficult to tack with than a Marconi or gaff rig, it has a better aspect ratio than square rig.
The disadvantage of the lateen rig is that it is a poorer runner than a square rig. Therefore the Spaniards often re-rigged their vessels when they ventured out of Mediterranean to the Atlantic, where the winds are constant and a square sail has the advantage.
Caravel
A caravel (also spelled carvel) is a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed by the Portuguese in the 15th century to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. They were used for the next 300 years. The caravel was an improvement on older ships as its triangular lateen sails allowed for fast sailing and the capacity for sailing well into the wind (windward, beating).
Caravel planking on the hull replaced thinner, less effective planking. Caravels were broad-beamed ships that had 2 or 3 masts with square sails and a triangular sail called a lanteen. They were up to about 65 feet long and could carry roughly 130 tons of cargo. Caravels were smaller and lighter than the later Spanish galleons developed in the 1500's.
Two of Christopher Columbus' three ships were caravels (the Niña and the Pinta).
Shebec (Xebex)
The Shebec was favored among Barbary pirates for she was fast, stable and large. They could reach 200 tons and carried from 4 to 24 cannons. In addition she carried from 60 to 200 crewmen. The Shebec had a pronounced overhanging bow and stern, and three masts which were generally lateen-rigged. In addition to sails she was rowed.
Felucca
A felucca (Arabic: فلوكة) is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean including Malta, and particularly along the Nile in Egypt, Sudan, and also in Iraq. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails.
Sinbad's Ship
Sinbad the Sailor (not to be confused with Sinbad the comedian) was from Basrah (southern Iraq) and had a Persian name, so his ship should be of Arabic or Persian design.
Here is a concept design showing winged sails
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Sohar
Inspired by The Thousand and One Nights (a collection of stories ascribed to Sinbad the Sailor, who was probably a mythic amalgam of Arab seafarers from between the eighth and eleventh centuries), Tim Severin decided to sail a dhow on a 6,000-mile voyage from the Persian Gulf to China. The design of Sohar (named for an ancient port said to have been the birthplace of the legendary Sinbad) was based on a drawing of a boom (a type of dhow) in a sixteenth-century Portuguese manuscript. The vessel's hull was built of aini wood from India sewn together with 400 miles of hand-laid coconut cord from Agatti in the Lakshadweep Islands (Laccadives) off southwest India. The 20,000 holes through which the coir passed were plugged with coconut husks and a mixture of lime and tree gum, and the hull's interior was preserved with vegetable oil.
Dhow
The primary trading vessel of Turskur and the Sabaean Sea region, the dhow is a dependable, old and conservative design that has proven its worth as a trading ship for centuries. Dhows come in a variety of sizes, and have one or two lateen rigged masts and a bowsprit. Caravels are a northern variant of the dhow.
captainfouquet.blogspot.com ship-types-used-in-takshendal.html
Chimera
The Disney version of Sinbad's ship. They went with a sail design that resembles those used by Asian Junks, but are shaped more like batwings. They may have chosen this design for the flying scene where the sails spread out like wings.
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Chinese Junk
A junk is an ancient Chinese sailing vessel design still in use today. Junks were developed during the Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) and were used as sea-going vessels as early as the 2nd century AD. They evolved in the later dynasties, and were used throughout Asia for extensive ocean voyages. They were found, and in lesser numbers are still found, throughout South-East Asia and India, but primarily in China, perhaps most famously in Hong Kong. Found more broadly today is a growing number of modern recreational junk-rigged sailboats.
The word junk derives from the Portuguese junco, which in turn came from the Javanese word djong, which means ship. The ship has a flat-bottom with no keel, flat bow, and a high stern. A junk's width is about a third of its length and she has a rudder which can be lowered or raised providing excellent steering capabilities. A junk has two or three masts with sails, made from bamboo, rattan or grass. Contrary to belief, the junk is capable of operating in any seas as she is a very sea-worthy vessel.
The sails are made flat with bamboo inserts (battens), permitting them to sail well on any point of sail. Easy to sail, and reasonably fast. The nature of the rig places no extreme loads anywhere on the sail or rigging, thus can be built using light-weight, less expensive materials. Some of the largest sailing ships ever constructed were junks for the Chinese treasure fleets. Junks also customarily had internal water-tight rooms, kept so by not having doors between them. Usually they were constructed of teak or mahogany.
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Captain Sao Feng's ship Empress seen in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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Captain Sao Feng's ship Hai Peng seen in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
The Hai Peng was a junk ship owned by Captain Sao Feng, and operated out of Singapore.
Outrigger
An outrigger is a part of a boat's rigging which is rigid and extends beyond the side or gunwale of a boat.
In an outrigger canoe and in sailboats such as the proa, an outrigger is a thin, long, solid, hull used to stabilize an inherently unstable main hull. The outrigger is positioned rigidly and parallel to the main hull so that the main hull is less likely to capsize. If only one outrigger is used on a vessel, its weight reduces the tendency to capsize in one direction and its buoyancy reduces the tendency in the other direction.
This design allows for a sleek shape while allowing for great stability and minimal use of materials and often simplifies construction compared to larger more stable watercraft.
Catamaran
A catamaran is a type of multihulled boat or ship consisting of two hulls, or vakas, joined by some structure, with the most basic being a frame formed of akas. they have been used since time immemorial among the paravas, a fishing community in the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and independently in Oceania, where Polynesian catamarans and outrigger canoes allowed seafaring Polynesians to settle the world's most far-flung islands.
Waterworld Trimaran
A trimaran is a multihulled boat consisting of a main hull (vaka) and two smaller outrigger hulls (amas), attached to the main hull with lateral struts (akas). The design and names for the trimaran components are derived from the original proa constructed by native Pacific Islanders.
Viking Longship
Longships were sea vessels made and used by the Vikings from the Nordic countries for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. The longship’s design evolved over many years, beginning in the Stone Age with the invention of the umiak and continuing up to the 9th century with the Nydam and Kvalsund ships. The longship appeared in its complete form between the 9th and 13th centuries. The character and appearance of these ships have been reflected in Scandinavian boat-building traditions until today.
The longship is characterized as a graceful, long, narrow, light, wooden boat with a shallow-draft hull designed for speed. The ship's shallow draft allowed navigation in waters only one metre deep and permitted beach landings, while its light weight enabled it to be carried over portages. Longships were also double-ended, the symmetrical bow and stern allowing the ship to reverse direction quickly without having to turn around; this trait proved particularly useful in northern latitudes where icebergs and sea ice posed hazards to navigation. Longships were fitted with oars along almost the entire length of the boat itself. Later versions sported a rectangular sail on a single mast which was used to replace or augment the effort of the rowers, particularly during long journeys. The average speed of Viking ships varied from ship to ship but lay in the range of 5–10 knots and the maximum speed of a longship under favorable conditions was around 15 knots.
Galley
Greek ships of old, such as the Argo had several general similarities with Nordic Longships. A galley is a type of ship propelled by rowers that originated in the Mediterranean region and was used for warfare, trade and piracy from the first millennium BC. Galleys dominated naval warfare in the Mediterranean Sea from the 8th century BC until development of advanced sailing warships in the 16th century. Galleys fought in the wars of Assyria, ancient Phoenicia, Greece, Carthage and Rome until the 4th century AD. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire galleys formed the mainstay of the Byzantine navy and other navies of successors of the Roman Empire, as well as new Muslim navies. Medieval Mediterranean states, notably the Italian maritime republics, including Venice, Pisa, and Genoa, used galleys until the ocean-going man-of-war made them obsolete. The Battle of Lepanto was one of the largest naval battles in which galleys played the principal part.
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