Re: Cos-B: 30 Years On (Forwarded)

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In case anyone's wondering, the specs on the thing are 450 feet long,
>with a beam of 75 feet, and a height of 45 feet.
>This is of course assuming we are using a 18 inch cubit...now if we were
>using the big African migratory cubits then the thing could be well near
>the size of the U.S.S. Nimitz. ;-)
>Seriously, wooden ships nearly that big have been built in historical
>times- though I doubt on short notice by a father and his three sons as
>the total construction force.

In *theory* they've been built in historical times - but there is no
real evidence that they were.

D.
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