Re: Kaimanawa Wall once again...
From: Eric Stevens (eric.stevens_at_sum.co.nz)
Date: 09/03/04
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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:36:11 +1200
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:46:04 +1200, applepaintedmyth@xtra.co.nz
(Reality Please) wrote:
>pwilson <pwilson78@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <1gjh8uc.rqtsjm1ggd7psN%applepaintedmyth@xtra.co.nz>,
>> applepaintedmyth@xtra.co.nz says...
>> >
>> >Yuri Kuchinsky <yuku@trends.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > For instance, I
>> >> > didn't know that Heyerdahl's raft had to be towed 50 miles through and
>> >> > beyond the currents otherwise it couldn't have achieved its journey.
>> >> > Yeehaaaaah.
>> >
>> >> This is supposed to mean something?
>> >> Heyerdahl's skills as a sailor are not being rated. He,
>> >> himself, admitted that he knew nothing about how to sail
>> >> those rafts when he started out. So what?
>> >
>> >Yes, it means a hell of a lot. It means the raft could never have
>> >covered even the first fraction of the journey without being towed.
>> >[...] You knew precisely what I meant -- the raft
>> >couldn't achieve its journey without a tow. But what do you do, you come
>> >back with someting totally irrelevant about Heyerdahl's skills.
>>
>> Heyerdahl's skills as a sailor are definitely a crucial part of this issue.
>> Kon-Tiki was Heyerdahl's first experience with a balsa raft. As he admits, at
>> the time of Kon-Tiki's sailing, he had not mastered the use of the guara
>> boards, which should have permitted tacking and sailing close to the wind.
>>
>> However, in 1953 Heyerdahl, along with the archeologists Reed and Skjolsvold,
>> conducted experiments with a full-size balsa raft off the coast of Ecuador.
>> They found that when properly used, guara boards permitted virtually unlimited
>> maneuverability of the balsa raft.
>>
>> The added circumstantial evidence suggesting the confirmation of open-water
>> sailing capabilities by balsa rafts without the need for a motorized tow is
>> the presence of pre-contact South American pottery in the Galapagos.
>
>Hey, get off the grass. All the waffle in the world won't change one
>thing -- Heyerdahl HAD TO BE TOWED 50 PLUS MILES otherwise his, ahem,
>voyage, ahem, COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED. Circumstantial evidence MIGHT lead
>SOME to believe whatever they like about something that MAY have
>happened yonks before, but it doesn't change the fact that Heyerdahl
>couldn't achieve his voyage WITHOUT BEING TOWED.
My cat would have to be towed 50 plus miles out to sea also, but that
doesn't mean that somebody who actually knew how to sail a balsa raft
couldn't make it unaided.
Eric Stevens
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