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ARGO replica 1984

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:27 pm

The epic poem Argonautica, first written down by Apollonius of Rhodes in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC, became the basis for Tim Severin's next expedition. He began his research into ancient Greek ships and the details of the text in 1981. Master shipwright Vasilis Delimitros of Spetses, Greece hand built a 54-foot (16.5 m) x 2.74 x 0.91m. (draught) replica of a Bronze Age galley based on a detailed scale model of the ARGO. Not a nail was used. The galley was rowed by 20 rowers, and when sufficient wind sailed, one mast, square sail.

In 1984, with twenty volunteer oarsmen, Severin rowed and sailed from northern Greece through the Dardanelles, crossed the Marmara Sea, and passed through the Straits of Bosphorus to the Black Sea, reaching the Phasis delta in then-Soviet Georgia—a voyage of 1,500 miles (2,400 km). Along the way they identified many of the landmarks visited by Jason and his Argonauts, and found a likely explanation for the legend of the Golden Fleece. Severin recounted the expedition in The Jason Voyage (1985).
The fate of the replica ARGO I can’t find.

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