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Navigation Course Classic XXI Century, organized by School of Naval and Oceanic Engineering UPCT is coming to an end.
Forty students have completed fifty hours scheduled, most of these practices related to traditional shipbuilding and sailing techniques.
The course coordinator, José Esteban Otto has been "pleased by the excellent reception given to this second edition of the course and also because they have failed to meet the objectives set at the time of programming.
Among them, bringing culture and the seafaring tradition of peninsular Southeast through the traditional sailing boats. "
He adds that the idea is also "starting in the knowledge of classical naval architecture in the Mediterranean, as well as major trade routes of ancient times."
During the course studies the design and construction of ancient ships and timber types and tools used.
Students have sailed lateen boats, as was done during the first voyages in Phoenician times, and also on a ship of sail, the schooner Buenaventura.
A professional Boatswain been instructed on the knowledge and making the rigging and work and has developed knowledge of students about maritime maneuvers.
A lack of closure, to be held next week, the students have done during practices this week aboard the schooner "Buenaventura", which have met basic sailing maneuvers near the port of Cartagena.
Source: UPCT
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