re: Aubrey answer this

Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Mon, 3 Feb 1997 02:23:26 -0800

>Sorry, no go. Aubrey won't understand, but I'm sure everyone
>else will.
>
> And those ancient warships.
>
> If Aubrey does a little more research he'll find that those
>ancient shallow draft biremes and triremes did not, any of them, put out
>in storms. Indeed, if a storm loomed, the captain of the ship would, if
>at all possible either make a sheltered harbor or bay, or failing that,
>try to beach the ship on a sandy beach.
>
> In winter, sea borne commerce in the ancient Mediterranean came
>to a halt until spring.
>
> Of course, Aubrey is only interested in dissecting out the
>isolated facts which might appear to support his long dead and butchered
>thesis. Fallacy of division again, for you logic fans.
>
> Ciao.

Wait a minute now. The fact of the matter is and remains, ships over the
300' limit were built. Did the galleys have a roof? Who in their right mind
is going to be sitting in a rain storm rowing a boatsonbyou never mentioned
the biggest boat of them all. In fact, you will find over boats besides the
ones mentioned by you above that were huge also. You will find that the
triremes were not large boats. Yet they didn't go to sea either because the
crewmembers had the sense to stay out of it. So you and Michael lost another
one. The 300' limit remains a fallacy by the very fact that ships over the
limit were built and used. When you row in ships that big you don't want to
be in the rain, Till. Things get very rough when rowing in noderate seas.As
far aa the Goose is concern, the wings were over 320' and I said that I
would used them as a boat, not the fuselage of the plane itself eventhough
it was built to float. The thing that you guys are missing is: large wooden
platforms over 300' can be built. The Ancient mariners did it already. So
now what's the problem? Who said that Noah built a conventional ship anyway.
I didn't! And remember, he could have built it in an uncoventional manner
since he was building it on soft ground.

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