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The making of a 15.century canon
Shooting with a 15.th century gun

Testing a medieval diving suit (unfortunately quite short, so can't quite tell how well it worked.

Reconstruction of renaissanceship

And following links off links (not built at the same location),
Along the west coast - Viking boat sailing through bits of Scotland. There appear to be a great many videos of Viking ships linked off there...

Current Mood: cheerful

Doco on the battle of Trafalgar - must be a repeat given daylight tv.
(Upon checking, Battlefield Detectives, which has been rather irritating in some of its coverage of various medieval battles - shonky archery testing etc. This one appears more fun. Too late to tape though.)

But they actually still have one of the sails from the Victory.

They want to know the sort and rate of fire she was under as the lead ship in the charge.

So, what else are you going to do than make a replica flax canvas sail, get a cannon and fire different types of shot at it... And then play match the hole types and shapes.

I wanna do that...

Aside: Wonder where they got their flax canvas from. Would be great for tents... What? What do you mean enough canvas?

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Doco on Trafalgar