Kimberly’s Reviews > Christopher Columbus: Across the Ocean Sea > Status Update

Jury mast- Main mast snapped, jury mast built with a spare yardarm.

Becalmed- Dead in the water, no wind, no movement from the sea, unmoving

'One meal a day was served aboard ship at 11:00 AM. It was cooked over a bed of hot sand in a firebox on deck and consisted mostly of salt meat, dried peas, and hardtack'

Only Columbus and the captains of the respective ships had sleeping quarters. All the sailors and other officers had to find a random place on ship, usually the main deck, to bed down.

One of the cabin boy's jobs was to flip the hour glass every hour, night and day, and make a note for each hour that passed. This way, the captain or whoever was in charge could know the time of day or night.

The 'Nina', 'Pinta', and 'Santa Maria' all had their tiller one deck below the top deck. Meaning, the one steering the boat couldn't see where they were going. They had to rely on the captain, or the one shouting down orders, to know where and how to go.

1492- All Jews were banished from Spain

Prester John?

Dead-reckoning = Navigational and nautical term

St. Brendan- Irish monk who sailed West