created for water storage. T e rigging material is a type of bamboo fi ber thread that gives an appearance similar to dried woven palmetto fi bers. T e sail is 140 fabric patches, representing the crew members’ shirts of various types, which are actually put together with a fabric adhesive and then sewn on the model. I am
not sure as to sail size, but if each of three hundred men had three shirts (given that forty or so men had died so they would have some extras) with fi ve vessels, a number of men would have had to go without shirts on the voyage (so maybe the sail was somewhat smaller). T e oar locks are a simple thole