Moulds, Graminhos and Ribbands: a pilot study of the construction of saveiros in Valenca and the Baia de Todos os Santos area, Brazil

abstract

• 2015 Nautical Archaeology Society. The survival of late medieval Mediterranean techniques to conceive and build ships and boats in Brazil was noted by John Patrick Sarsfield in the 1980s, but his study of the Valena shipwrights was interrupted by his untimely death in 1990. This paper summarizes Sarsfield's account of these shipbuilding techniques, examines that published by Lev Smarcevski (1996), and provides some preliminary results of the pilot stage of a project to further research traditional shipbuilding in Valena and the Baa de Todos os Santos region.

authors

• Vieira-De-Castro, Luis

published proceedings

• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

altmetric score

• 1.5

author list (cited authors)

• Castro, F., & Gomes-Dias, D.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Castro, Filipe||Gomes-Dias, Denise

publication date

• September 2015

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• International Journal of Nautical Archaeology  Journal

keywords

• 16th-century Shipbuilding
• Brazil
• Graminho
• Valenca
• Whole Moulding

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/1095-9270.12086

start page

• 410

end page

• 422

volume

• 44

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1111%2F1095-9270.12086