The Santa Maria Ship & Museum was a museum ship in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The craft was a full-size replica of the Santa María, one of three ships Christopher Columbus used in 1492 during his first voyage to the Americas. The ship was displayed in Columbus from 1991 to 2014, when it had to be relocated due to the Scioto Mile project reshaping the riverbanks. The Santa Maria has sat on a city-owned lot since its relocation.
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Welcome to my first build. At this point I have the hull complete and the deck on. Shaping the false keel. This part is tricky You can see how shaping the wood provides a frame for the planking to sit against Bulwarks are now on. I didn't realise that I had lined them up incorrectly. Boarding up the bulkhead was tricky as I didn't have things lined up well. This is where I discovered the wonders of superglue vs PVA First planking goes pretty good. I bought a nail pin tool. Made life much easier. This is easy to trim off with a dremmel. Dog attack! Lucky it will be covered.... Second planking. I discover sticky tape works, but is super slow. I later go on to buy clamps and use elastic bands which is faster. I was pretty glad when that was over. The coamings are now on and some of the edges inside complete. You can see where some of the planks have shrunk. Must have been a little wet. Gunwales are on. Bought a nifty bending tool for that. Lost track now of how many hours this has taken. Made a little jig to create the rails. Kept them nice and straight and even. Looks pretty good. Stairs made. Deadeyes all done... bit of a mission.You can see a few little bits added. Some I don't know the name of... lol Managed to avoid making the keel for a long time. Just could not work it out. Had to look at some videos on Youtube!! Final coat of clear on. Colour has come up really well... and yes, I finally worked out the keel. Masts are up, with supports on the bases. I added some extra bits that were not in the kit. I have started looking at other builds and pictures. I am getting ideas. Begun the rigging. Have had to do some research as not enough instructions included. See you all again soon when its finished!
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The wooden craft was a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus's Santa María, one of three ships he used in his first voyage to the Americas in 1492. The new ship was believed to be the most accurate replica of the original Santa María. The ship, described by its builders as a "15th century caravel", had three masts and spanned 98 ft (30 m).[1][2] The replica was displayed on the Scioto River, moored to Battelle Riverfront Park.
History
The Santa Maria was commissioned in the late 1980s as a permanent riverfront attraction, in anticipation of the 1992 Christopher Columbus Quincentennial Jubilee (celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage). It was built using $2 million in private funds at Scarano Boat Building in Albany, New York. It was halved and trucked into the city in 1991, reassembled in the parking lot of the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, and moved to Battelle Riverfront Park.[1] The ship was dedicated October 11, 1991 (the Friday before Columbus Day), in time for the 1992 celebration. The event was met with about 150 protesters, including many Native Americans, both at nearby Bicentennial Park and in front of the ship.[3]
The ship's presence was aimed to draw people to the Columbus riverfront, and drew numerous city school trips, though it overall had limited success, and attendance dropped over the years.[4] The nonprofit tourist organization that operated it closed in 2011, and the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department inherited it. Around 2014, due to the Scioto Mile project, as well as $5-6 million in necessary repairs, the Santa Maria was taken apart into pieces and moved onto a city-owned lot beside a wastewater treatment plant in Columbus's South Side, in ten pieces. Santa Maria Inc. raised money for repairs, and it was estimated that the ship could return to the riverfront. Environmental Protection Agency rules no longer permit it back on the Scioto River, and nobody has recently expressed interest in restoring the ship given the expense.[5][6][7]
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Demasted and removed from the river, August 2014
See also
References
- ^ a b Clark, John (October 6, 2019). "Columbus Uncovered: Fascinating, Real-Life Stories About Unusual People, Places & Things in Ohio's Capital City". Gatekeeper Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "Santa Maria". Scaranoboat.com.
- ^ Carmen, Barbara. "DEMONSTRATORS CURSE COLUMBUS AS 'MURDERER'." Columbus Dispatch, 13 Oct. 1992, p. 03E. infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/10E0D4C7145805E8. Accessed 26 June 2020.
- ^ "Scioto Mile: City banks on river in waterfront makeover". The Columbus Dispatch. July 7, 2011. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
- ^ "City Quotient: Where's the Santa Maria, and When Is It Coming Back?", Columbus Monthly, Columbus, Ohio, 16 September 2015, retrieved 5 August 2022
- ^ Gray, Kathy (6 February 2018), "Who wants the Santa Maria?", Columbus Monthly, Columbus, Ohio, retrieved 5 August 2022
- ^ Abdurraqib, Hanif (24 June 2020), "The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio", The New Yorker, New York, New York
External links
- Official website, 2015 archive by the Internet Archive
- Information from the shipbuilder
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