The prow of a ship sliding into view in one image, and an open book that serves as a boat for the seafaring poet in another, help to define "frigate".
Sometimes students from Manhattan schools helped build the boats; sometimes neophyte seafaring families from the neighborhood did.
Recent discoveries like Kennewick Man -- skeletons that appear either too old or too different from American Indians to have been a part of this group -- have led scientists to think the Americas must have been populated by other means as well, most likely by seafaring people from northeast and southeast Asia, moving in boats along the Pacific Rim and eventually to North America.
For more than 100 years starting with the middle of the 19th century, these boats, designed and built by the Bugis, a seafaring people originating from the island of Sulawesi, were used to carry cargoes between Indonesia's 17,000 islands.
Both had arrived earlier that day, along with a merry crew, aboard a psychedelically painted "dragon boat," originally a scrap raft built by Poppa Neutrino, a nationally known seafaring eccentric who died last year.
Rather, they look for migrants with seafaring experience and offer them a free ride if they agree to take a boat to Italy — not because the traffickers are worried about the safety of their cargo but because they know that too many missing people is bad for business.
The sinking of civilian ships without rescuing their voyagers, said Winston Churchill, then first lord of the admiralty, leaving them "to perish in open boats or drown amid the waves was in the eyes of all seafaring peoples a grisly act, which hitherto had never been practised except by pirates".
A BIGGER BOAT It's imperfect but enormously compelling: Crazy Boat, a Facebook app that turns you and your Facebook friends into seafaring entrepreneurs, charged with cleaning up the seas and, of course, facing off with giant squids.
Seafaring seems to have increased.
Herodotus describes them as fierce, seafaring warriors.
