A blog is a two-way communication tool: the writer is expected, and sometimes receive, feedback and opinions from readers. Receive an email is a bit 'unusual, but the request contained in the email that we received in late September was even more. I contacted Michael to ask him if he can fulfill the request. A carpenter gets a lot of special requests in his career, and Michael was not even the first coat before knowing me. Since we began this project, however, even the unusual things in his experience is put to the test. This time, For me, it was a simple request for advice on the design and manufacturing of an old boat. When Michael heard the answer to your question "But how old?", However, a common carpenter would have thrown the phone down. But we are friends, and despite everything, trust is the basis for any friendship. So Michele believed me without batting an eyelash, I conveyed its consent to the request, and we made an appointment.
The wreck of the "ship stitched Gela" was one of discovery that has shaken beliefs consolidated naval archeology. E 'was recovered, and is now being studied to reconstruct the ancient techniques that allowed the construction, and understand why was built in a very special fashion.
Dr. Alessandra Benini, after reading this blog, he met Michele Cafiero, in his cave, to submit to the problems of construction places an examination of the wreck at Gela. And the unflappable Michael immediately recognized in the pictures and the diagrams of the wreck of archaeologist on the laptop, the forms and the joints of the construction of wooden boats, as he has learned from his father, Mast'Antonio Cafiero, and as Mast 'Antonia learned from his Master, Mast'Antonino "Tore d'or" Cafiero ...
early as 600 BC, therefore, the construction technique of the ship of Gela, incredibly sophisticated, incorporating solutions that are still the culmination of an ancient evolutionary experience. The work of archaeologists continue to find out why a ship "stitched" coesistesse with other previously regarded as the most advanced, and the work of Michael Cafiero and carpenters survivors continue to pass on the techniques of building wooden boats in the Mediterranean.
(the photo was taken by dr. Anzidei Marco, geologist INGV)
The story begins with a boat of its construction, but his life begins the moment he touches the sea. The wooden fishing boat with lateen sail Navy Alimuri "Santa Maria del Lauro" has already been touched by the sea when the storm of November 20, 2008 pushed the waves right into the cave to lick the hull incomplete. In fact, before I get in the water, the crop of Mast'Antonio and Michele Cafiero has changed the lives of those who work there, and maybe even the history of the Navy Alimuri. 
