Talk:Age of Sail/Archives/2013

Age of sail?
Shouldn't sail be lower case? gren 1 July 2005 04:10 (UTC)


 * Capitalization is normal for historical periods - Bronze Age, Gilded Age, Age of Enlightenment, etc. Stan 1 July 2005 04:18 (UTC)

Sailing re-organization effort
Take a minute to read the comments at Talk:Sailing#Re-write effort -- non how-to et seq. Some of us are working on re-organizing the sailing-related articles. See if you agree with our approach and give us some help. Mrees1997 20:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Speed of Sailing ships
Would be interesting to have information in this article as to how long typical voyages around the world took. --Renier Maritz 06:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Odd Dates
The article states the age of sail is dated from the late 16th century to the mid 19th century. How can that be true when the first genuine sailing vessel(meaning totally unreliant on oars) the carrack was devloped in the 15th century. I've changed the overview section to state that the age of sail began in the 15th century. Hopefully, this wont become a controversy.

Although I guess the entire summary section will need to be changed, since when do we define the end of an age in terms of the last time the technology was used. Sailing ships had been around for over a century prior to the battle of Lepanto. By that logic we'd still be in the age of sail as sailing ships are still used in the world.--Ironzealot (talk) 11:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, if you want to consider the earliest pure sailing craft, you have to go back to at least 400 BC. The Kyrenia Shipwas powered primarily by sail. Viking knarr also had little or no provision for oar power, and various replicas (e.g. Saga Siglar) have shown they did not need to depend on oar power. If you think of it, oar power is impractical for a cargo carrying vessel, and I strongly suspect that even the Cape Gelidonya wreck (1200 BC) was a sailing vessel! --APRCooper (talk) 17:13, 7 June 2009 (UTC)