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Originally Posted by Jeff_H
Mea Culpa, besides for mispelling Jolie Brise, I was mistaken about where she was built. Jolie Brise was actually built in France. Jolie Brise won quite a few early Fastnet Races, including the 1929, which I believe was the race in which Halloween (later known as Cotton Blossom IV) set the course record which was not broken until Ted Turner's Tenacious broke the record during the ill fated 1979 regatta.
There is one case that appears to have a model of Halloween posed next to Jolie Brise (not to scale since Halloween was roughly 76 feet and Jolie Brise was 56 or so). The model of the lateen rigged workboat with the classic Portuguese eye at the bow is very similar to the working watercraft of Genoa Italy and the Ligorian coastal workboats widely used at least as far south as La Spezia area.
Jeff
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Ah yes absolutely right, in fact here is a story for you.
That boat's origins and roots and canoe type arrangment, with the eye, is in fact Fenician, and was taken by the Fenicians to Malta, where it took the name Daica.
Then as the Romans came over to Portugal, they brought that boat with them, but until then was only a downwind boat. with oars for upwind.
In Portugal, with the invention of the Latin sail, and the fact that our seas have more swell and higher waves than the Mediterranean, and in the old days they launch from the beaches, the bow grew up to avoid the waves, and the sails became lateen sails.
However, the origin of the boat, in Malta is still there, and from there it went to Italy, also by the hand of the Romans. But the design is fenician.
I lived in Malta 1 year, and was astonished when I used to see "my boats" there. Decided to investigate and found the story behind them.
Google Malta and sure enough, you will see what I mean.