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> > I think you are misreading Greg's comment. Deepwater medieval ships
> > were very similar to their classical and ancient predecessors. Fat
> > tubs for the deep and for cargo, sleek oar-driven things for war.
>
> No, I got it. I meant that while the differences aren't really that
> great, there's a lot of aesthetic satisfaction for me in keeping with
> the actual classical era designs rather than the functionally
> equivalent but later era vessels.
>
> -Adept
>
Assuming of course, these exist. As others have pointed out, the Bronze
Age was far less nautically ept than you proposed.
Me, I'm more interested in the effects of shipbuilding on the
surrounding communities. Shipbuilding, combined with pyroculture
(metalworking, charcoaling, glassworking), was very much responsible
for the deforestation observed throughout the Med during the Iron Age.
Shipbuilding - the real reason there's no new elf forests!
Jeff