Seeing the height of this bridge compared to the boat made me wonder…

We can trace the width of our modern road lanes and railroads back to the width of Roman roads because the modern systems were based on the ancient one, in turn based on the width a carriage pulled by two yoked horses had to be. 

Is there the same thing for boating and sailing culture?  Are the heights of various boats based on the clearances of various ancient bridges, for example?

Boating culture has always seemed like such a rich and alien world, full of its own traditions.  From the outside looking in, at least, it seems distinct cross-culturally as well. 

It’s one thing I wish I could’ve learned more about from my mom. 

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 It's a good question - I suspect that there's no specific rule across vast areas as there is with roads and trains. Undoubtedly some boats would have been built to be very specific to their environment, but since the needs of the people making them varied as much as the places they'd be used I doubt there's a similar correlation. That said, I want a river boat as, although my girl can navigate some rivers, being as she's got a 30ft mast bridges would become a major issue.  

 Traditional rigs tended to be lower & sprit rigs could be furled & the mast unstepped & dropped into the kind of boats that would be going under those.

There is no point in them looking at what they see now, it's not the same. 

 Technically mine can be dropped by a single person to enable those sorts of maneuvers. I say technically because I'm not entirely sure I'd manage it yet. Need more practice.  

 As soon as I get a chance I'm making a sprit, I have everything for the sails I just need to figure out how I need to modify the boat to step the mast & what I'm going to use for it. 

 Now that may be because I'm being a cheapskate & not wanting to spend a fortune every time I need to replace a sail.... 😂  

 That & watching those hurricanes... yeah I want to drop that sucker. 

 Wouldn't be much harder with a lug rig either. 

 Probably! I know they still classify cargo some ships based on being able to fit through the Panama Canal 

https://medium.com/@heisenberg.shipping/understanding-panamax-vessels-what-is-panamax-vessel-e90512104d05 

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=The+Working+Guide+to+Traditional+Small-Boat+Sails&i=stripbooks&crid=X9VMY4ZV26AF&sprefix=the+working+guide+to+traditional+small-boat+sails+a+how-to+handbook+for+owners+a%2Cstripbooks%2C2633&ref=nb_sb_noss

What you see now is not the same, it's comparing apples to oranges. 

 If you are willing to forgo the silly racing around buoys stuff, then have a look at the real working rigs.  

 The speed of those modern Bermudas comes at a cost in complexity & handling obstacles.