Hugging the shore is the fastest way to get wrecked in a keel-less boat.
How do they know they weren’t coast huggers blown off course to deeper waters and sunk by a storm? Just askin’.
For your GGG ping list.
I’m sure that once they realized that they could cuts weeks off a journey from Greece to Italy by navigating straight there as opposed to putzing all the way around the Adriatic, they happily set off across the open ocean. The ancient world was lacking modern technology, but they weren’t stupid.
There’s old sailors and bold sailors, but.....
Geez...
The major economic method of making money with a wooden boat:
The larger the number of trips, the more money you make. An average ship lasted about ten years and hugging the coast cost you dearly in revenue. You sailed in straight lines, always.
Why don’t archaeologists own boats?
Not a sailor among them.
Deepest Roman shipwrecks, victims of Somali pirates, found near Greece