Draft Of A Galleon

[ivan salis]

please note --due to the sailing tactics of the 1600's era --the vessels sailing from southern Mexico to Baja area --would have hugged the coastline in fairly shallow waters using what was called "dead reckoning" navigation ... plotting where you were at by using maps that noted rivers and other land mark items to figger out where you were ....and the average vessel of the type you are speaking of drew about 15 feet of draft..more or less ..but as I say many other factors might need to be factored in to try to find the depth at which it sank at...

 

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[seekerGH]

this particular one went up the river....hope that helps

 

[Old Bookaroo]

One hopes - with a paddle.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[ARC]

Posts also deleted. heh

 

[ropesfish]

I'd guess that this might have been the subject of the inquiries:
The legend of a lost ship in the Arizona/California desert goes back a very long ways, but I had never heard of the Viking connection that this Newsweek article brings up.
Interesting stuff, but I'll stick with shipwrecks that are still wet.
Searching for California's Lost Viking Treasure Ship

 

[seekerGH]

How much did the Viking ship have to pay to get through the Panama Canal?

 

[Old Bookaroo]

seekerGH:

What if they took the Northwest Passage?

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo, CM

 

[ropesfish]

How much did the Viking ship have to pay to get through the Panama Canal?

I suspect that they took the long, long way around.

 

[hobbit]

Don't be silly, folks.

The Lost Ship of the Desert is neither Spanish nor Viking.

It was a Knight's Templar ship, freshly outfitted from the chandlery on Oak Island.

On a serious note, though, given the constricted nature of the Sea of Cortez, a hurricane passing straight "up the pipe" could potentially create an enormous storm surge into lower California. The tidal range in the northern Sea of Cortez is over 15 feet !!!

 

[Bobkelly]

Does anyone know the draft range for 1600's spanish galleons?

I realize that this is an old post, but I was curious to know if you have has any success in locating any more of the shipwreck?

 

[RTR]

Waking up a good and interesting thread.