I really appreciate it! Thank you for the kind words!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you very, very much for the kind words! This means a lot to me and I appreciate it!

Aye, that’s what they called me there. I it is on the Black Sea Maritime Project during which we found 65 shipwrecks. I have always wondered how much of a compliment that was, though, for Prof. Adams is left-handed 😁 You are quite right on the lifestyle, though. I have seen things that I could not have even dreamed of seeing when I was growing up in Commie times. I have seen things that, frankly, no one has seen in millennia. It is not renumeratively satisfying line of work, but is very exciting, so incredibly interesting that it compensates for the discomfort. There isn’t anything else that I would rather be doing in life, than nautical archaeology. I have been blessed to have worked with some of the best in the field and have learned a lot from them. I am very grateful for all that I have experienced. g

Archaeology is breaker of many a myth 😀 and shows us not how things ought to be, but how they were.

Well, it is a major undertaking. It is easy for me to criticize, but raising the funds and crew to study a huge vessel in commission that is practically complete in challenging conditions, when you can dive only for 2 hrs per day, is no easy matter. A couple of weeks ago I was told that she has been reburied by the sea

Correct. However it is not the earliest steering wheel mechanism. Leaving aside question about authenticity that longer around parts of the collection due to “restorations” while still in the good Colonel’s hands. But you are right - I ought to have spoken of it, too.

These windlasses riding on the tiller are American 19th century invention. And it is exactly this: a relieving block and tackle with a windlass. The proper steering wheel has different origin: attempt to bring the helmsman up to the deck where he could see the sails and course, In addition to the compass course given. The wheel could separate the helmsman from the tiller a further distance than the whipstaff.

@@kroumbatchvarov-archaeologist One consideration for having the helm obscured on those war ships might have been for protection / bulletproofing. I didn’t realize that the tiller riding wheel was only American . Thanks .

Thank you!

Guten Tag, mein Herr! Yes, indeed: all show steering wheels, but for Buccaneer period films, it would be wrong. For the Bahamas pirates of the late 1710s-20s, they may have begun to appear even on smaller vessels. In more that one book on 17th c I see steering wheels :-). Then Conan Doyle in his novel Sir Nigel also speaks of them- even earlier, even more Impossible. Thank you for watching and commenting!

Thank you very much for the link! I’ll Follow it to see what’s that they have found. Parks Canada have done fantastic maritime archaeology in the past- I admire their work. Thank you for watching and commenting!

More usually, yes. On smaller vessels that did not have room for a capstan. Or sometimes with capstans- to wit., the Bremen cog of 1380. But on this model it clearly is used for steering. Though it is debatable whether it is a windlass or winch.