![]() ![]() Why no Santa Maria?įrom the info flyer handed out at the ships: The Columbus Foundation does not have one for three reasons: she never made it back to Europe. They're at the top in large format - click or scroll all the way up. You can track the ship's progress via their Twitter feed. Then around noon they'll start their way along the Erie Canal, with a planned overnight stop in Schenectady. The Santa Maria which Columbus never liked, ran aground and sank on Christmas Eve 1492 in Hispaniola (now Cap Haitien). The ships will head up the Hudson early Monday morning and make a stop at the Troy riverfront near the Dinosaur to have their masts removed by a crane. The original Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic were common trading vessels. (The ships have diesel engines.)Īfter seeing the ships up close Friday afternoon we had same reaction as after seeing that replica Viking boat that was in Waterford last year: It's amazing people crossed oceans in ships like this. They regularly go on tour from port to port - they've been through here before. The boats were built by hand in Brazil and are owned by the Columbus Foundation, an org based in the British Virgin Islands. ![]() Admission is $8 adults / $7 seniors / $6 students 5-16 / children under 4 are free. The Niña is a replica of the ship on which. ![]() The ships will be open for tours Friday-Sunday 9 am-6 pm. Replicas of Columbus’ ships the Niña and Pinta docked Thursday and will be berthed there, open daily for tours, through Wednesday morning, Aug. They'll be there through early Monday morning. Not something you see everyday: Full-size replicas of the Nina and the Pinta - two of the ships that accompanied Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic - are docked at the Albany Yacht Club in Rensselaer. ![]()
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