Type: caravel or nave.
Materials: hull, deck and spars wood. Oak beams Keel OPEC, African wood), larch edged below the waterline by Douglas above; masts Douglas.
Date and place of launch: 1996 on the wharf at Redcliff Bristol, designed by naval architect Colin Mudie.
Other names: none
Initial Operation: replica historic Ambassador Bristol
Last known nationality: British
End port-known Bristol
last known use: sailboat cruise and walk , representing Bristol in rallies sailboats;
Meaning of the name Matthew : Mathieu equivalent in English. It was the name of the ship of J. Cabot.
Overall Length : 23.7 m
Overall Length : 23.7 m
Hull length: 19 , 5 m
Waterline length: m.
Breadth: 6.3 m
Draught maximum: 2.1 m
Air draft: 22 m
Displacement: 85 t .
Surface max wing: 217 sqm.
State: regularly maintained.
Hull: natural wood.
Superstructures: poop and forecastle.
Matthew is reconsttitution of the caravel in which John Cabot discovered the American continent in 1497. Giovanni Caboto (1450 -1498) was a naturalized Venetian and Genoese navigator established in England under the name of John Cabot .. He, in fact, reached the Americas Before Columbus , touching the shores of New England and Labrador. in 1497. Columbus at that time, had acknowledged that the West Indies and has reached the South American continent in 1498. Cabot was lost at sea in 1498. That said, we do not know more about this enigmatic character than Christopher Columbus. 
It is difficult to class this boat, one of the few recreations of ships of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the contemporary documents on them are not a very high accuracy. We talk about caravel, because the size of the vessel is relatively small, but the real caravel was a shell more fine and was rigged with lateen sails. The rigging of Matthew is rather that of a nave or carrack , with square sails to cross spars, and hull forms rounder than the caravel. If we compare the ships of Christopher Columbus, Matthew more like Santa Maria, considered a carrack, as the Niña typical example of a nave or caravelle.Cependant carrack was a ship bigger than Matthew. We talk British cog also, by analogy to Koggues German or Dutch, but they had a single mast.
The Matthew was built in 1996 to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the voyage of Cabot, and again the same crossing in 1997 . The ship regularly attends the celebrations of Brest and Douarnenez and must be present at the week in the Gulf of Morbihan, in 2011. It winters in downtown Bristol, Floating Harbour (tidal basin)
The crew comprises 19 persons, such as Cabot's boat. The yacht has a motor and all modern facilities for navigation, for safety reasons. It can pick up passengers for trips of the day, or school groups for short walks.
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