Alright you guys .
First lets clarify some things .The Ark was a mess , but it floated didn’t it ? Secondly , in the Phoenician Navy , being helmsman ( or steersman as they called it ) was a lot better than Oarsman .
At least I got to eat with the officers and didn’t have to sleep chained to anything ! LOL. LOL. Only thing I didn’t like were those stupid skirts , men wore back then ! Tanker - Builder
Dunno, a bunch of my skirt wearing ancestors stopped the Romans just north of York.
You know the old story:
“Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum Dum…”
Oarsman: “god I hate this job!”
“DUMDUMDUMDUMDUMDUMDUM…”
Coxwain: “Look alive down there, the captain wants to go water skiing!”.
But at least since the Ark, his design, fabrication and build skills have made leaps and bounds. And if he had to do it again there would be displacement improvements as he would not leave room for skeeters, wasps, hornets, and scorpions, etc.[:D] And would not use any of that twisted gopher wood, or pitch.
Remember…the ark was built by a novice, the Titanic by professionals…
Not a lot of photo-etch in the Bronze Age.
I wonder what plaster of paris was called before Paris?
Mastedon bones?