Sailboat History Timeline 1

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Sailboat History Timeline 1

Sailboat History Timeline part 1 of 5 from 4000 BCE to 1660 at Timeline Help.

- 4000 BCE

- 3000 BCE - 900

- 2000 BCE

- 1200 BCE

- 500 BCE

- 100 BCE

- 400s

- 900

- 1000 - 1200

- 1000

- 1200

- 15th century

- 1492

- 1497

- 1500 - 1650

- 1500

- 1512

- 1660

Phoenicians and Egyptians sail under cloth sails on single log and simple long narrow sailboats.

Square sails are common.

Extensive sailing trading networks starts at the Mediterranean Sea. Iceboats in Scandinavia.

Greek and Phoenician big cargo ships along the Mediterranean.

Phoenicians built ships with two big masts.

The Roman Empire has largest cargo and passenger ships of 180 by 45 feet.

First catamarans along the Southeast Asian coasts.

Lanteen and Triangle sails are used.

The Vikings built 80 feet long and 17 feet wide sailboats for war, trading and colonizing.

Norse explorer Leif Eiriksson probably the first European to land in North America. The first of the great explorations in this sailboat history timeline.

First viking longboats and British merchant sailboats are made with small wholes from which bowmen could fire their guns.

The Barque or later Bark with sails running breadthways.

Italian navigator Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas.

Voyage of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama from Europe to India.

Sailmakers start using flax fiber to create sails.

Governments accept private sailing warships - privateers - to attack foreign shipping.

Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan sails from Spain in order to find a western rout to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. But he travels from the west of Africa to southern America.

King Charles II introduces sport sailing in England. Dutch shipyards give British King Charles a small sailboat, named the Royal Yacht Mary.

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Bibliography of the Sailboat History Timeline

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Sherwood, R (1994). A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America.
Marya Butler, P an M (1988). Upgrading Your Small Sailboat for Cruising.
Vigor, J (1999). Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere.
Pardey, L and L (2006). The Care And Feeding of the Sailing Crew.
Smith, B (1963). The 40-Knot Sailboat.
Spurr, D (1983). Upgrading the cruising sailboat.
Craggs, A (2006). On the Stability of Sailboats.
Palley, R (2004). There Be No Dragons. How to Cross a Big Ocean in a Small Sailboat.
Mate, F (2003). The World's Best Sailboats, Volume 2.

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