schedule to tour nina and pinta chattanooga 2019

It also has a 40-foot air conditioned main cabin down below with a seating area and is available to rent for private parties and charters. The Pinta is a larger version of the archetypal caravel and offers a larger deck speck, perfect for walk-aboard tours. The Pinta was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on her travels along the Western Hemisphere. And while that may seem very small by modern standards, it was a grand ship back in its day. The Nina has a deck length of 65 feet and a beam of 18 feet and reaches about 1,919 square feet. This made traveling into smaller bodies of water not only possible, but also much easier. This particular ship was favored by Columbus more than the more well-known Santa Maria in part because its small size required only seven foot of water to sail, while the Santa Maria required fourteen feet of water to sail. This life-size replica would have been the same ship that Columbus used to sail across the Atlantic on his two of the four voyages to “discover” the New World. The Nina has since been branded by Archaeology magazine as, “the most historically accurate representation of a ship ever created.” The replica of the Nina was built completely by hand and without the use of modern power tools or any form of electricity by a group of twenty-eighth generation shipwrights in Brazil.

Historically accurate representations of the Pinta and Nina, two ships from Christopher Columbus’ fleet when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492, will be docking at Ross’s Landing and will open to the public beginning early Thursday morning. Discover what Columbus and his sailors experienced in person

Schedule to tour nina and pinta chattanooga 2019