Notorious: A recreated 15th Century Portuguese Caravel

Whoever was filming this needs to work on their condition. This wheezing after climbing a couple of stairs means quickly approaching death.

The hand hewn look of this ship is unmatched. She has character! You can see the love that went into building her.

The ultimate tiny home for the pirate enthusiast.

i can only imagine seeing a Portuguese fleet of ships like this floating in the Persian Gulf in the 15th century when there was no such thing as Kuwait City and when the Portuguese managed to sail to Japan likely as the first Westerners to achieve that .... dang those Portuguese - they knew how to build ships

I could never come up with enough superlatives of praise and appreciation for this ship and its builder.

Big hello from Portugal! That is a fantastic ship! Congratulations to the builder and all ppl that supports her.

I seen this ship randomly while crossing the bridge from Newcastle to Stockton. It blue my mind, I thought I was seeing a ghost ship as it looked completely black from my view. I tried googling about it but was unable to find any information. After which I was telling a mate about it and he had known about the ship also, now seeing it from this video is awesome. So thank you.

I just now realized how small many wooden sailing ships were. Imagine being in a hurricane on a boat like that!

1 - The Caravel was the ship for discovering the world. 2- Then the world offered excelent trade oportunities so it was built the carrack, bigger for bringing tons of cargo in spices from Asia to Europe. 3 - As expensive products had serious Arab competence and also pirates making everything to put their hands on this millionaire cargo a new ship had to be built to protect this trade. 3 - The Portuguese built the Galleon, a big carrack full of cannons, including new sea war developments, that was developed for centuries and soon also by other countries. Great video!

My father in law just saw the Notorious near Port Macquarie NSW a few days ago - he is with the marine rescue as a volunteer and spotted her at anchor - amazing to see in real life! Now I came across this post quite at random and will share it with him! Thank you very much. Great endeavour to build and sail this vessel!

We have one in the Dias Museum in Mossel Bay, South Africa. It was used by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 when he was looking for a new route to India via the southern tip of Africa.

I saw this boat in Tasmania a few years ago at a wooden boat festival. I remember a fireplace or wood burning stove and was impressed with it in the surroundings of wood and tar! A wonderful feat of woodworking. It’s great to see the shots of it under sail.

Incrivel! Como brasileiro tenho muito orgulho dos meus ancestrais portugueses e como conseguiram construir essas caravelas e virem da Europa até a America, Gloria a Deus!

Obrigada por partilhar este vídeo 👍👏👏👏👏👏🇵🇹

Com estas Caravelas o mundo e seus continentes nunca mais deixaram de estar ligados , graças a um povo heróico no sul da Europa os ( Portugueses )💪

9 years full time? Imagine being able to work on a passion project like that. What a world we could live in.

Being able to beat close to the wind was this ships greatest technology contribution from my understanding. It allowed explorers to travel much further down the west coast of Africa past the great desert and still return home. Something previously impossible due to the trade winds in that region. Fun irony: Railroad magnate Leland Stanford imported Australian Eucalyptus trees to grow in plantations for railroad ties. Although the species proved too weak for the application California farmers in the Monterey area discovered they made great wind breaks! There are still millions of eucalyptus trees in Southern California, particularly around the Salinas Valley. There are so many they are considered invasive now and being slowly removed.

Fantastic job. I am Portuguese living in Canada and really enjoyed video. thank you Obrigado

I got to sail on a recreation of the Niña for three months and it was amazing! Our boat was made of Brazilian tropical hardwood and made with traditional tools and techniques.

It was the triangular sail as seen on the Nile that changed sailing forever, after adopting this rig the boats could sail better than the square sails, as a child in Portugal, my fathers' small fishing boat had the same sail setup as that used on sailing boats today except all these fishing boats had was a timber mast with a triangular canvas sail and a rope, when the wind was right up it went, no engines at that time just oars, and no one complained.