Vasa's sister ship Äpplet found

When I told a coworker I was visiting Stockholm for the first time a few years back, we had the following conversation:<p>Him: “You gonna go see the boat museum?”<p>Me: “The what?”<p>Him: “The boat museum. It’s a museum with a boat in it.”<p>Me: “…just one boat?”<p>Him: “Trust me. Go see the boat.”<p>He was right. One of the coolest museums I’ve ever visited in my life.

If you have some free hours in Stockholm, treat yourself a visit to the Vasa museum. Seeing these ships with your own eyes and internalizing the amount of work and thought that was put into them is a real thought provoking experience. The eventual magnificent failure of the ship only adds to the story. This is one of the more impressive museums I had the pleasure to visit.

&gt; The ship&#x27;s designer was Hein Jakobsson, the same master shipbuilder who completed Vasa. He realized that Vasa had the wrong proportions even before she was launched, which could lead to instability.<p>And indeed, she tipped, foundered and sank on her maiden voyage.<p>&gt; The Apple was therefore built wider than the Vasa, but despite this, the ship was not successful...<p>Being a &quot;master shipbuilder&quot; in those days was apparently a tough gig.

I hope they treat it right!<p>My biggest takeaway from visiting Vasa was that it only has decades left, after being essentially immortal underwater, due to some preservation-related choices that seemed right at the time. A final irony for the vessel I guess.

If you find this interesting, you might like learning about the Goethenborg, which you can even volunteer and sail on.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ff6aQdszTiE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ff6aQdszTiE</a>

I must resist asking if it used Java. I would love to see the Vasa but have not made it to Stockholm yet. I did see the Mary Rose in Portsmouth which was incredibly fascinating to see (large portions of the ship remain so you can see the layout). Mary Rose is from the century prior to Vasa and Äpplet.

I wonder if a statue of Paavo Nurmi will be on the deck.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ayy.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;student-culture&#x2F;pranks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ayy.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;student-culture&#x2F;pranks</a>

While we&#x27;re talking about old ships, let me toss in a plug (ha ha) for the Edwin Fox. Not quite so old, but still very interesting history. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Edwin_Fox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Edwin_Fox</a>

I&#x27;m lowkey waiting to hear about Applet&#x27;s <i>other</i> sister-ship, JDK<p>...implausible? Really?<p>Ha! You can&#x27;t tell me you&#x27;ve never thought about what you&#x27;d name things if you were warped into the past and worked as a Swedish shipwright.<p>Like, it&#x27;s just too tempting to troll 21st-century conspiracists with anachronistic ship names, <i>of course</i> it would be a thing you&#x27;d do.<p>Call this the &#x27;anthwarpic principle&#x27; (no I don&#x27;t care) and by 2022 epistemological standards, it&#x27;s as likely to be real as anything else<p>OK, fine, downvote me, you cowards

The naming of the first ship is obvious: Vasa was the royal house of Sweden.<p>But why did the king decide to call the second ship &quot;The Apple&quot;? Did he like his Macintosh so much?

&gt; Today, wrecks must remain on the sea bottom, and there is a new museum that is not based primarily on objects,”<p>&quot;Must remain on the sea bottom&quot;? Why? (Seriously.)

in September of 2001 I found myself stuck in Stockholm for a few days. I did a lot of walking around in a bit of a daze. I was walking around thinking &quot;Well, at least not much happens here&quot; and I turned the corner to find myself at the place where Olof Palme was shot.<p>Later, I went to the Vasa museum. It struck me how recently that was a state of the art war machine.

Are there any surviving line drawings of these boats?