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In this section we will include not only the latest news
we have received, that doesn't fit in anywhere else in MarineZine, but also
anything which has happened at any time in the past thousand years or
so, that we are fairly certain most of our readers will not be likely to have read about
elsewhere.
Our special feature will cover a story in depth.
In this edition, for example, you will find The Sinking Of Star Dust,
about an event which occurred on 18th July 1999 off Trinidad, West Indies,
whilst our editorial team were there.
As soon as you have news for us about the outcome of any Race or Race Meeting, Regatta Event or Show, Contest or
Competition, or even as events are unfolding, tell us all about it.
If anything unusual happens and you're there at the time...
If you are attending any boating, sport fishing or other Marine-related event, try your skills as a
reporter. If we receive well-written copy, we'll publish it verbatim.
Even if you don't think you can write well enough to be published, tell us in your own way and we will
re-write anything that we feel needs stating differently.
Details and reports we receive will be published here and writers and contributors acknowledged by name unless they ask to remain
anonymous.
Not many people know this...THE OLDEST BOAT ON EARTH...
A fascinating snippet of information has come to our
ears...apparently, whilst digging up the terrain in preparation for the laying
of a new road eastwards out of Ellös, in Sweden, the excavators unearthed pieces of resin
which scientists say were used to caulk boat hulls, probably made from aspen
wood.
The resin comes from the birch tree and is the means the tree uses of
sealing its own damaged areas. These lumps of resin, however, bore the
distinctive marks of having been used as caulking.
Tests showed that the boats
were between 9,500 and 9,800 years old!
A visit to the Stenåldersmuséet in Ellös, on the island of Orust, on the west coast of
Sweden, will afford you a
look at them. Now, nearly ten millennia later, Hallberg-Rassy builds quality
yachts upon the same ground as whoever used those lumps of resin as
caulking.
We
thank Hallberg-Rassy for allowing us to share their pleasure in knowing that
they are on the site where the oldest-known boat on Earth was built. Something
tells us that old Harry Hallberg who, unfortunately, passed away in 1997, would
have been delighted to hear it.
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