Re:Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee
by mdturnerphys on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:19PM
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I can't find anything about ballast stones being used on the Sea of Galilee, but there are lots of mentions of ballast bags.
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Re:Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:42PM
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I've seen ballast bags as well (even on nominally "modern" sampan boats). If I were a sailor 4K years ago I'd probably optimize for cost first, speed second. But I don't have a good idea for how much effort it takes to fill ballast bags so I can be very confident in reasoning about where they would fall on that scale.