Sailing


Are there any sailors here? Some things that caught my eye that I was surprised to see on a Polynesian boat included:

- A horn cleat.

- Line (rope) that looked like three strand line.

- Tying a knot that might have been a finger bowline.

I wonder how accurately I got those details, and how historically accurate the film was in its depiction of Polynesian sailing.


reply

The boats in the film are based on the ones the learned about and looked at in Fiji, they got the whole nine yards on historical this and that. How else did Polynesians successfully navigate the Pacific ocean :)

reply