Your insightful observations on the historical context of Santa Maria and Christopher Columbus provide a nuanced perspective on this pivotal era of exploration. Indeed, the directive from the King of Aragon and Queen of Castile to construct Santa Maria, (as a reference to, provide all logistics in favor of this goal) but, indeed, marked a significant chapter in maritime history. Columbus, despite his perceived arrogance, and yes he was and needed to be arrogant, (please note, im Portuguese, and proud of it) exhibited, however, a remarkable determination, or inability to accept failure, (he was in the middle of the ocean, what to do?) that ultimately led to the discovery of the American continent. Santa Maria, in my humble opinion is one of those ships that, transcends its physical form as a vessel and becomes a symbolic icon in history. Its legacy gains prominence only in the wake of the discovery of the (of corse) American continent, And if you allow me maybe Hollywood has something to do with that also? The lack of widespread publicity, when allegely "Santa Maria" was probably found in the bottom of the sea near Hispanola,never convinced me... if back then she was really found, it would exist way more publicity, and never was, so that tell me probably who found it knew that. If you allow me a personal remark here, your expert knoledge is always regarded by me as a Must. I would never throw a Rotten (or what ever condition would it be) Tomato at you... Im a Latin man.. Tomatoes are way more valuable in the kitchen, and cooking... and i do love to cook.. i said i love it, never said i was good at it:) My respects goes to you, your family and thank you for another very Interesting video... BTW.. im building another non existing ship (and im sorry Sir, but this time its way worse, than My last Santa Maria :) ).. Stay safe! Much Respect Alex

Yes please to a discussion covering actual 15C ship building.

Beautiful assistant 😻

Thank you very much, Kroum Batchvarov 👍👏✌️

Definitely would enjoy a video covering 15c ships

Yes, for sure! It's really interesting to know what we now understand about XV century ships! I’m just one of those Santa Maria builders. :) But I’m not disappointed with your video at all. On the contrary- I really thank you for proving this once more. I think our knowledge of history before the XVI century is generally limited. However, this doesn’t stop painters, cinematographers, and writers from 'recreating' this history. Sometimes it seems we know more about ancient Greece or Egypt than about events that occurred 150-200 years ago, which definitely cannot be true. On the other hand, these interpretations may have a right to exist if they are considered not as reality or truth but as a piece of art created by the artist's imagination. And I build my Santa Maria with exactly this in mind. Additionally, the lack of detailed knowledge about this ship allows me the freedom to experiment with some parts and manufacturing details, which would be much more challenging with any other well-known and thoroughly documented historical ship.

I was not disappointed at all! This was very interesting as I did not know that so little was in fact known about that ship. I also would like to cast my vote for a video on what is known about fifteenth century ships. Though warships are interesting, I am much more interested in the working vessels of the era, and that is what it looks like was provided to Columbus.

A video about XVth century shipbuilding would be most welcome! And about the accuracy of today's available ship blueprints in general...

Thank you for sharing your expertise explaining how little is known on the Santa Maria. I have assumed historians must have just had detailed scribts on the style of ship the Santa Maria was. I was always assuming that the scale of the event undertaken would have been recorded in fine detail. However, like you mentioned, nobody ever mentions the type of tyres that we use to get from A to B, especially if it requires the story writer to take further attention away from the captains amazing navigational skills and superb seamanship that helped make these historic achievements back in the day 😆.

I rather knew this, but thank you for weighing in. For all of that, Pavel Nitkin's kit is gorgeous! How much research on the middle of the 15th century would it have taken to achieve his result, or had he deviated from period? I've never built a ship model; one meter R/C gliders and the like, yes- but Ohla's unboxing really makes me think this kit is with my meager skills; if it isn't it won't be for Pavel's lack of trying. My best to Imbir! And yes to a series on 15 th or any century of ship building and ship builders. These ships allowed men to see all of the world, using the Earth's own tides, winds and currents to do it.

Truly sad information, or lack there of, on the Santa Maria. Though it won't deter me from building Pavel's lovely kit !!!

Seeing the title of the video last night, I suspected the speech you would have))) For those interested in Santa Maria, it must be built solely for the history it represents. I too would like a video on the 15th. Glad to have seen Imbir for a long time)))

I’d love to hear more about 15th century shipbuilding.

Loved the video Professor, greatly appreciate the honesty in the review. It is a great risk to put a specific name on a kit when there is little reference on her to be found. You answered the question I had while watching the sister's channel if the kit was a good replica of the Santa Maria, blew the question out of the water so to speak. As a kit, am happy to add this Caravelle to the list to be smuggled through the wife in the future. The risk is justified by the kit quality alone, great work Pavel. Am hoping the 15th century ship building will be considered for one of your video uploads in the future. Thank you to the both of you sir.

Great video, thank you. I would like to point out that the majority of model kits available to build are inaccurate in one way or another.

Do we want a separate video on 15th century shipbuilding? Of course we do!

Excellent as ever. I presume the same can be said for Cabot's ship Matthew, that we have no real idea what she looked like?

Great video as always! I find it intriguing that not a lot is known of this particular era, hopefully it can change at some point, as it would be great to see accurate representations of vessels of the era. On another note, having been watching your videos for a while, I want to ask: have you taken any interest in Spanish ship building throughout history? If so, what do you find most interesting about it, what time period? As a proud Spaniard who has studied quite a bit of Spain's maritime history (especially the late XVIIIc.). I don't usually see many studies or people talking about it, doesn't seem to very well known, despite the great achievements and technological advancements that some of the later ships had. Then again, I do not know if this is your area of expertise, please do let me know! Have a good day.

I would love to hear about the mayor ship types and what we actualy know about them, kogge, karack's, galeons ect.

Yes please to C15th ship building. Another great video Professor.

A video or series on what is known of 15th century ships would be very interesting. Of course you know of the Santa Carolina, Columbus’ 4th boat. It’s the one that fell of the edge. 😂

I’d still like to see Olha build it, even if it’s someone’s imagination of it. Great lecture.

Hello Mr. Batchvarov, this was a very interesting video. My hobbys are sailing, ship-modelling, maritime-history and collecting maritime-literature. Im always curious to learn more about historic-ships. In the Anatomy of the Ship-Series, is the book " The Ships of Christopher Columbus - Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta" by Xavier Pastor. In this book, different Replicas of the Santa-Maria were described, and also mentioned that little was known about the original-ship. What did you think about this book and the Replicas? Is there any Replica of the Santa-Maria, that could be like the Original, from a wide distance? And what about the Nina and Pinta, also mentioned in this book? I like your video-series very much, because of the "view of an ships-archeologist"! Sorry for my poor english. Greetings from Germany!

Thank You, I do like your videos! I'll also vote for a video on the 15th century ships. And I'm just thinking, Santa Maria could have been a poor sailer, just like the various replicas. People being people, I'm sure the Merchants tasked with providing the ships for this voyage would have taken the opportunity to unload their worst dogs on the King.

It would be really great if you make that video, i personally do not like those ships, but nevertheless i wanna know about them, for maritime history is my cup of tea. We will all appreciate it very much, thank you in advance.

There is one additional fact that everyone is missing. That being the second and fifth letters of this ship's name, "Santa Maria", are indeed all the letter A. Whew.....I need to lay down after deciphering that one.

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I had always assumed that much more was known, given the fairly common representations in books and kits. I greatly appreciate setting the record straight. Have recently discovered your channel, always find it interesting. Thank you!

Many people assume that replicas of medieval and classical ships are accurate so your video comes as a salutary reminder of the limitations. I’m sure you had a good reason for not mentioning the Newport ship (built, apparently, in northern Spain around 1447) but was nonetheless surprised. A video dedicated to knowledge of late medieval ships would be a valuable contribution. Many thanks for your work.

As a portuguese, this also makes me very curious. How much do we know about naus? And about caravels? I've found some books in my country about this, but it seems the data is insufficient on the details, even the exact shape of the hull is very much debated. So yes! Do make a video on 15th century ships! I'd love it!

The truth is very interesting, I mentioned data that I didn't know. But because we don't know exactly what it was like, it gives the modeler some freedom, at least that's the good part.

Hum... Very interesting... I want to watch this vídeo. 👍🇵🇹

Il I remember correctly, most of the Santa Maria’s wreck was utilized to building the settlement(later dedtryed) on Hispaniola after the wreck. Very little would remain to be found.

Interesring lecture.

are there no models from that time that give an indication of what the ship might have looked like ?

The history of the Columbus expedition is popularized by books, films, paintings, etc. for many years/generations. Therefore, it will always be commercially successful among shipmodelers. You can fantasize as much as you want. Historical inconsistencies are completely unimportant. Only not for scientists who are deep in this subject.🔍📚📜🔬🤔

After seeing the Santa Maria video drop on the sister channel, why am I not surprised to see this here? ;) After almost six centuries on a rather warm, very lively sea bottom, I'd rather doubt the chances of finding anything identifiable of the shipwreck, if anything still survives at all. But perhaps other vessels of the period will be discovered in the future. We can but hope.

No rotten tomatoes from me. I see on the box they call that model a caravelle, are the models that are sold as being the Santa Maria at least representative of a ship design that could have been sailed by Columbus?