LITTLE

>able to cross roaring forties

>>3310116
WHITE BOIS CANT COMPETE

>>3310116
zheng he was muslim btw. eurangutans btfo twice over

>>3310116
Columbus' vessels were small by European standards too. He was on a shoestring budget.

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>>3310173
>eurangutans
First time I've heard that one.

>>3310239
hello newfriend

>>3310116
>believing chinese estimates of size based on one rudder
>falling for the treasure ship meme

what's it like to be a Yongloid?

>>3310223
>>3310116
Columbis vessels legit shouldnt have even made it....I know 2 of them didnt but they all should have honestly died out there

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>>3310116
*blocks your port*

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>>3310116
Hmm, is i possible that Zhongguos tried to COMPENSATE something?

Portuguese had superior naval technology for long distance oceanic voyages without stops.

did it even possess adequate surface area for the sails?

from the off I'd say it looks quite badly designed

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>this triggers chinamen

>>3310116
If you were going to explore the oceans today, would you take a supertanker or a destroyer?

>>3310491
Yellow submarine

>>3310267
ive been here since 2014 and I've never heard it either

fuck off, tryhard

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>>3310491

>>3310267
been here for years aswell, never seen it either..

>>3310534
>>3310591
its a /his/ meme created this last month

>>3310281
Those size estimations are perfectly fair. There are records of similarly sized grain ships in Europe since roman times, that only stopped being made due to lack of need (no Urbs to feed = no need for grain supercargoes).

If I'm remembering this right, the Chinese mostly built flat bottomed boats as a result of their experience with riverboats, which made their equipment unsuitable for open oceans.

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>>3312685
It probably helped that south east asian seas are pretty shallow and ridiculously treacherous. Most traditional ships in the area were flat bottomed (and even had compartimentalized hulls), even those of seafaring cultures.

>>3310267
been on 4chan since 1999 and It's the first time I've seen the term eurangutan

>>3310534
>>3310591
>>3310664
Its author is nicknamed Incatard, he advocates for Inca culture claiming "Incas were superior to eurangutans, history demonstrates it". Pretty fun meme.

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>>3310358
Zheng He was a eunuch. He didn't even have a dick.

>>3312716
Chinese were pretty awful seamen. Most of the sailors in China in places like Canton were foreigners from Zanzibar/Swahili coast, Arabs dominating the trade, people of Ceylon and other islands that they picked up along the way during trading and boat repair.

>>3312685
>>3314302
Song Dynasty had pretty good sea-going vessels but the Mongol Yuan dynasty used flat-bottomed boats for their invasion of Japan either because Southern Song style ships would have taken too long to build or due to deliberate sabotage by the shipbuilders, which was part of the reason why they all sank in a typhoon.

>>3310267
been here since 2002 and haven't seen it

>>3310153
I was wondering about that, I doubt that wood is sturdy enough to keep that gigantic thing from collapsing under the strain.

>>3310267
I've been here since the 1800s and it's first time I heard that one.

>>3310584
Looks comfy af

>>3310534
>ive been here since 2014
So a newfag?

>>3310116
>supeliol ch*nk engineeling