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(...) Sorry it took me so long to respond (I've been away from the net for about a week). Here are a few links: I was suprised to have little luck finding much on the web. I've enclosed 3 articles from the Corpus Christi Caller Times - it seems that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Do you know where any .jpgs are located? I'd love to see them cobbling together some 15th-C. ships. I do know there are a few replicas of Columbus's ships already floating around out there (quite literally!), so I wonder if these will vary (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) . (...) At the Corpus Christ, TX Natural History Museum, replicas of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria are being built by craftsmen using, IIRC, essentially the same building techniques as were employed on the originals. It is a fascinating (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I think he learned after the first not to go quite so overboard on pages and pages of nautical jargon explanation. But then again, once you go through it, you are better prepared for the succeeding novels. And yes, I have gotten that comment (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Really? I loved the first one, thought the beginning of the second was rather slow, but now that he's on his bizarre double-bowed ship, things are picking up again. The technical terminology didn't bothe rme at all...but it did cause me to (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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