![]() Guided tours are also available for school groups and organizations. Tickets are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $6 for students between 5 and 16 years old. It’s open as a floating museum for dockside educational tours. Replicas of the Nina and the Pinta are docked at Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina until May 9. John Bergmann, commodore at the Albany Yacht Club, said his organization has plenty of room for the visitors. The Pinta is a replica of a Portuguese Caravel used by Columbus and many early explorers. The Pinta replica ship arrives at the Charleston Harbor in South Carolina on Thursday, April 27, 2017. They will then head to Newport, R.I., and Bridgeport before venturing north up the Hudson River, Thompson said.īoth ships will be open for self-guided tours in Hartford Thursday to Tuesday from 9 a.m. The Nina’s deck is 65 feet long, and the Pinta’s is 85 feet. The ships will make their way to Connecticut after stops in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. It was constructed 15 feet longer and 8 feet wider than the original to accommodate more people, according to the foundation. They were small trade ships surpassed in size by ships like Great Michael, built in Scotland in 1511 with a length of 73.2 m (240 ft), and a crew of 300 sailors, 120 gunners, and up to 1,000 soldiers. A fun opportunity for the kiddos to see historic, replica ships. La Niña and La Pinta replicas at the 1893 Columbian Exposition La Niña, La Pinta, and Santa María were not the largest ships in Europe at the time. The Pinta replica, which is 85 feet long, was built in Brazil in 2005, Thompson said. The Nina & Pinta are at Fort Loudon Marina all this week-Lenoir City, TN. Alongside the Nina and Santa Maria, the Pinta was the first to sight the lands of San Salvador and the West Indies under the leadership and navigation of Columbus. On Friday, March 22, the Pinta and the Nina, replicas of Columbus. “We are a floating museum, and we visit ports all over the Western Hemisphere.” Columbus ships, the Nina and the Pinta, to land in Jupiter Friday, March 22, 2019. “That ship was last heard of in 1501, but the new Niña has a different mission,” the foundation wrote on its website.
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