Columbus arrived at Watlings Islands in the Bahamas. Then around 2am a sailor on the Pinta perceived the coat of an island, lit by the moon.Ĭolumbus was right! After 36 days at sea and a voyage of 2400 mile, he landed exactly as he had promised. Nothing was told to the sailors and they didn’t notice anything. Nobody will argue with that’, wrote Ferdinando.Īround 10pm on October 11th Columbus noticed a dim light. ‘If the Captain won’t decide to sail back home, we’ll throw him into the sea and, once back in Spain, we’ll tell everybody that he fell overboard accidentally. The fleet had been at sea for 34 days and was still sailing hopelessly, towards an unknown destination. Navigation was not at all easy: ‘Here people cannot stand it any more and complain over the length of the journey’ noted Las Casas. During Pinta’s first stop at the Canary Island it replaced its lateen sails with square sails. Columbus took the command of his small fleet and at the dawn of August 3rd weighed anchor, leaving south towards the Canary Islands. In fact these two families supplied the enterprise with the two famous caravels: Pinta and Nina. Preparations for leaving started in May in Palos, the city of Pinzon and Nino. The report of his triumph lives through two documents of the time: one is the caravels log-book and the other is the touching biography of Christopher Columbus, written by his son Fedinando. This extraordinary adventure was due to the strong perseverance of a foreigner haunted by the conviction that the Atlantic Ocean was but a sea, narrow enough to be crossed in a few days by boat.Ĭhristopher Columbus, son of a Genoan weaver, had been thinking about this project for 15 years and then spent eight years of his life looking for someone who could accept it. On 12th October 1492 Christopher Columbus, in the service of Spain, set the royal flag on an island of a completely unknown world to Europe. History of the Pinta Caravel of Columbus 1492 Making it an intermediate model ship to build. The Pinta Caravel of Columbus 1492 is ranked at a skill level of 2. Amati Ship Models has integrated computer design and the latest materials to produce high quality ship model kits. All materials are of the finest available and plans and instructions are always excellent and easily followed. The Pinta Caravel of Columbus 1492 is a faithful interpretations of the original vessel. The anchor of the Santa Maria now resides in the National Museum of Haiti in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Pinta Model Ship Kit Caravel of Columbus – Amati (1410) Wooden kit of ship to gluing Producer: DusekShipKits Scale: 1:72 Size of kit: 39x32x18 cm (l-h-w) Description and plans of model, history of the ship. Its timbers were stripped to assemble another ship, La Navidad (Christmas) because the wreck occurred on Christmas Day. The Santa Maria ran aground on the first voyage off present-day site of Cap-Haitien, Haiti on Christmas Day, Decemand was lost. This is about the size of a modern yacht. It measured about 60 feet (18 meters) in length and 18 feet (5.5 meters) in width. The Santa Maria was a small ship, by modern standards. The Santa Maria was originally named La Gallega (The Galician) because built in Pontevedra, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. LA PINTA Ship Model Loudspeaker Size: 26 high 27 long 12' wide that'comes with every kit: Take part 57, place it at the front end of 56 and down on. None of the three were built for trans-oceanic exploration. The Santa Maria was owned by Juan de la Cosa, a cartographer, conquistador and explorer, who sailed with Columbus on the first three voyages (1492, 1493, and 1498).Īlthough not well known, all three ships were bought used and may have even been third-hand. The other two were named the La Nina (The Girl) and La Pinta (The Painted One). She was originally lateen rigged with one mast square rigged (caravela redonda) but was refitted just 10 days into the expedition leaving just the rear mast lateen rigged. Thanks to the collaboration of designers, draftsmen and model makers, Amati has been committed to offering enthusiasts the best products and the most up-to-date technologies for more than 140 years. The Pinta together with the Nina and the Santa Maria, formed the fleet for the voyage of discovery led by Christopher Columbus. The Santa Maria was the flagship and largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the Americas. Founded in Turin in 1879, Amati was initially known as a specialist in the art of fretwork.
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