MINOA - a Minoan ship reconstruction in Chania, Crete, Greece - ΧΑΝΙΑ ΚΡΗΤΗ

Minoa is a scientific reconstruction of an ancient Minoan vessel from around 1500 BC. Ships like these sailed in the Aegean Sea at the peak of the Minoan period, connecting the Greek islands and the mainland in the Bronze age. The hull is neither carvel nor lapstrake, but a special shell-first construction that used ropes to pull the strakes together. Read more on the website of the Maritime Museum of Crete in Chania (Ναυτικό Μουσείο Κρήτης): The rig is a square sail with a spe