[Sca-cooks] Sperm Whales
Phil Anderson
urizen at clear.net.nz
Wed Oct 24 02:00:12 PDT 2001
Stefan asks:
> I guess going after them in a longship
> type vessel isn't any more hair-raising than in a whaleboat, but not
> something I would willingly do. (actually, for more reasons than the
> just the hazard). Perhaps the whales were more common, and came in
> closer to shore such that you didn't need a large ship to act as a home base.
I don't know about period techniques, but shore-based whaling was
practiced well into the 20th century -- up to 1964 in New Zealand,
for example. Large whales will come fairly close inshore if the water
is deep.
Edward Long-hair
Southron Gaard, Caid
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