Santa Maria

[Tony1955]

my next build is going to be the Santa Maria. Are there any useful books or information about her please?

 

[Dave boatswain]

Anatomy of the ship: the ships of Christopher Columbus, Xavier Pastor.

Kolumbusschiffe 1492 by Winter Heinrich.

 

[Piter]

my next build is going to be the Santa Maria. Are there any useful books or information about her please?



















The hardest part was filming the process for my fellow modelers because the phone editor constantly glitched and couldn’t deliver proper editing. That’s when I switched to Movavi and now https://www.movavi.com/ has become my main tool. The software let me professionally edit time-lapses of the assembly, add voice-over, and include historical footage. Thanks to that, my Santa Maria build videos received great feedback in the community and motivated me to start the next model. Now every new ship begins not just with a box of parts, but with a proper video shooting plan.

Seeing the discussion about building the Santa Maria model instantly took me back to my own project last year — I assembled Christopher Columbus’s caravel in 1:75 scale and spent months researching historical details to make everything authentic

 

[Bankai]

my next build is going to be the Santa Maria. Are there any useful books or information about her please?
















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Good job.

 

[CarlosE]

The Ships of Christopher Columbus: "Santa Maria", "Nina" & "Pinta" (Conway's Anatomy of the Ship) by Xavier Pastor.

 

[Bob Cleek]

My next build is going to be the Santa Maria. Are there any useful books or information about her please?

The correct answer depends upon what you mean by "useful." To what use do you intent to put such books, if any were to exist.
If by "useful" you mean "useful for building a high-quality scale ship model as such a model is understood by the great majority of ship modelers over the half century or more since it was defined, the only answer is "There are none."

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A high-quality scale ship model provides a compelling impression of an actual vessel within the constraints of historical accuracy."

"Historical accuracy" encompasses all the objective, or measurable, standards of technical exactness that might apply to a ship model. These embrace the obvious hull shape and fairness; precision in fittings, rigging, and colors; lack of anachronisms; and so forth. But it also encompasses all aspects of craftsmanship because the lack of craftsmanship creates unrealistic and, therefore, historically inaccurate blemishes on a model. ... The phrase "historically accurate" alone effectively replaces the intention of the now-vapid "museum quality."

"... (A "compelling impression") allows and encourages aesthetic interpretation of a vessel that will help propel the viewers to make the leap of faith that allows a model to work or to willingly suspend the disbelief that keeps a model from working. Both processes help viewers accept the invitation to visit a ship instead of a model. Compelling impression is the result of applying artistic and interpretive decision-making processes... to amplify a model beyond being a mere assemblage of parts.

"It is important to recognize that neither arm of our definition considers how a model was made. There is no assessment of whether entire models or components of them are built from scratch, built from kits, or built by teams of modelers. The main thing is the appearance of the finished model. The ends justify the means."

Rob Napier, Caring for Ship Models - A Narrative of Thought and Application, (2022) Seawatch Books.
See: https://seawatchbooks.com/products/...tive-of-thought-and-application-by-rob-napier

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There is no reliable accurate historical record of the Santa Maria's dimensions or exact appearance. As you probably know, on Columbus' return voyage, the Santa Maria sank on a reef off Haiti a couple of months after she first made landfall in the Western Hemisphere. She was broken up and her timbers were recycled to build a fort ashore named La Navidad. Despite intense archaeological investigation, no sign of her has ever been found, save an anchor which is claimed to have been hers, but lacks any reliable provenance. I believe the earliest reliable description of this vessel was given eighty-three years later in 1585 by Juan Escalante de Mendoza who wrote that she was not much larger than 100 tons in capacity. There are some records of later reports of crew members, but these fail to provide a reliable complete picture of her. She has been described as a carrack or a nau, a type of cargo vessel about which we know little more than that they were three-masted and single decked with fore and aft castles. Relatively recent archaeological excavations of a few carracks provide some idea of hull shapes and some construction details of the type, but we have no idea of the Santa Maria's dimensions or appearance which could conceivable substantiate as "historically accurate" any model one might claim to have made of her. To claim to have built a model of the Santa Maria, can never be anything more than building a generic model of a "schooner" and painting the name "America" on it.

Given the lack of historically accurate information, "the constraints of historical accuracy" preclude construction of any "high-quality scale model" of the Santa Maria. All the Santa Maria ship model kits, and for that matter the seven alleged "replicas" of her built over the years, are only their designers' guesses, some more educated than others, but none historically verifiable.

On the other hand, if you aren't interested in building a "high-quality scale ship model (that) provides a compelling impression of an actual vessel within the constraints of historical accuracy," which is to say you are interested in building a "generic" carrick or nau of the late fifteenth century for its decorative, rather than historical, value, then, by all means, simply pick the model or replica that you find the most attractive and build to those plans. It would not be proper to put the name "Santa Maria" on such a decorative piece because there's no way to say that the model is at all accurate and it lacks any specific historically verifiable accuracy as Columbus' ship, but, if you must, it won't be all that great a crime since there are so many "fantasy" Santa Maria's out there already.
So, you see, the main problem you have in the first place is deciding whether any book about Columbus' Santa Maria can ever be useful when the author knows or should have known that there's no way to honestly claim the book's contents are based on verifiable historical facts.

See also: https://thenrg.org/resource/articles/ship-models-that-should-not-be-built

https://thenrg.org/resource/articles/ship-models-that-ought-to-be-buillt