Caravel Replica's Journey

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Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 10 Jan 2020 23:57
The Bartolomeu Dias Caravel from Portugal to Mossel Bay
 
 
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As we left the replica caravel we saw a set of pictures telling the story from setting sail in Portugal to finding a permanent home here in the museum.
The Header reads: Placing a Replica of the Caravel Bartholomew Dias in the Museum at Mossel Bay Using Dry Docking Technology, Ancient and Modern. K.P. Mackie Pr.Eng., M.Sc (Eng); Capt. E.C. de Sousa. In 1488 the Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias reached the end of Africa and opened the sea route to the East. 500 years later, in 1988 the Portuguese and South African Governments co-operated to build a replica of the caravel to re-enact that voyage. The caravel sailed out of Lisbon under the command of Capt. Emilio de Sousa and, at the end of the voyage out, was left on the slipway in the harbour of Mossel Bay, not far from the point where Dias turned back to Portugal.
A museum had been provided about a kilometre away, atop a 15 m high cliff, to house the caravel as a permanent exhibit. The presentation below is a record of how dry docking techniques, ancient and modern, were used to move the caravel to its final berth in the museum. It was done at a cost of about 20% of the cost of using modern engineering or rigging techniques.     
Here is the set of pictures.
 
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ALL IN ALL A MEMORABLE TALE AND SUPER ACHIEVEMENT
                     AN AMAZING STORY