The Godspeed sets sail.
Three ships transported the Jamestown settlers from England to North America in 1607. Today, Jamestown Settlement workers have rebuilt those three ships. The most recent re-creation is the Godspeed. It was built in Maine last year and sailed south to Virginia for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown. Take a...

Wooden ships: the enduring romance of George Luzier's classic boats.
When George Luzier, 80, was a young boy in Sarasota, the only way to have a boat was to build one yourself. So when he was 14, under the watchful eye of his yacht captain uncle Bob, Luzier built his first boat under a pine tree on Hudson Bayou,...

Elizabeth Ridel, ed. L'Heritage Maritime des Vikings en Europe de l'Ouest: Colloque International de la Hague (Flottemanville-Hague, 30 Septembre-3 Octobre 1999).
Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2002. The twenty, contributors to this handsomely produced volume, equal numbers of French and foreign scholars, gathered on the Norman peninsula of La Hague to explore the Scandinavian impact on the coasts of early medieval Europe. La Hague is judged to have...

A hands-on view of the colonial economy.
A macro-economic study of the early economy of Australia, while historically important, is tedious reading. It is altogether different to enter the daily life of producers of the time and examine the economy from their point of view. The needs of the population were primitive but their few needs...

Cheryl A. Ward. Sacred and secular: ancient Egyptian ships and boats.
(Archaeological Institute of America Monographs [n.s.] No. 5). xiv+162 pages, 79 figures, 16 tables. 2000. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum; 0-7872-7182-9 hardback $77.75. Egypt preserves a tremendously rich resource of ancient ship and boat images depicted in the tombs and temples of the pharaohs. Since the excavation...

Arabs place orders for vessels with Gujarat shipping industry.
Byline: Anil Nair AHMEDABAD: Call it another adventure by the wealthy Arabs. A cost-cutting move by industrialists in the Gulf has resulted in reviving the 200-year-old wooden shipping industry in Gujarat. The cash-rich Arabs are placing orders for ancient vessels to carry livestock, mainly for meat, to...

Demountable timber joints for timber construction systems.
In timber craft development, some important knowledge on demountable timber joints had been lost due to several reasons. The purpose of this research is to evaluate and transform accumulated knowledge on timber joints for contemporary practice and design issues in the case of demountable timber structures. To do so,...

THE LATEST WAVE.
The editor of Boating Magazine reports on the best of the carefree new luxury boats. ha-da-da-da-click, wha-da-da-da-click. Do you associate the balking of a hard-to-start engine, rather than the laugh of gulls, with a day of boating? Do memories of weekends spent painting, removing stains...

Navies from war to relief: the start of operation Iraqi freedom in 2003, along with the devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, have refocused the attention of navies across the world on amphibious missions and manoeuvre from the sea. To this end, across six continents, acquisitions and developments of new amphibious landing support ships and landing craft are proceeding apace.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The post-Cold War environment has pushed these vessels to the forefront of expeditionary operation requirements--particularly the large Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) and Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ships which can embark helicopters, tilt-rotors, fixed-wing aircraft, conventional landing craft and air-cushioned landing craft, while also offering substantial...

Hyperion Books.
Hyperion Books 114-5th Ave., New York NY 10011 www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com Pamela Duncan Edward's Ms. Bitsy Bat's Kindergarten (0786806699, $15.99) is a lovely, recommended pick for ages beyond the kindergarten range. Henry Cole's fun animal drawings capture a new teacher at the kindergarten and the...