Mary’s Mayor John Morrisey said that’s what makes the Nina replica the most accurate - it survived the longest. However, the Nina was the explorer’s favorite and accompanied him on further excursions. ![]() The Santa Maria ran aground and sank during that first voyage, which was fine with Columbus because according to historians he hated that ship, and the Pinta returned home only to vanish. The Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria weathered the high seas with Columbus at the helm for his first of three voyages. The ships will be in Saint Marys, Georgia, more than 500 years after the explorer first set sail from Spain. Now, carbon copy replicas of his fleet of ships will do what Columbus didn’t - make landfall in the New World. More information on the ships and their sailing schedule can be found by visiting The Columbus Foundation receives no funds from government agencies or private foundations, and is supported entirely by the fees paid to tour the ships.In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue but he never set foot in North America. ![]() The two ships are available for public and school group tours when they dock at designated ports, allowing guests to learn what life was like aboard a ship in the 15th century, about Columbus's many voyages, the mechanics of the ship, life aboard today and more. There is no replica of the Santa Maria as it was larger and would require greater water depth, prohibiting travel to many of the places the Niña and Pinta visit. The Pinta was built 15 feet longer and 8 feet wider than the original, so she can accommodate more people and can be used for dockside charters/events. The ships travel the Gulf Coast, the East Coast, the Great Lakes and the Midwestern River System. They travel an average of 10 months out of the year, to between 30 and 40 different locations around the United States. The 65-foot Niña is currently considered the most historically-accurate Columbus replica ship ever built, and together with the 85-foot Pinta, the two serve as floating museums, visiting ports all over the Western Hemisphere. The Columbus Foundation now displays and maintains the only traveling replicas of these ships in existence today. The Pinta replica was built some years after the Niña replica as the second ship in the Columbus Foundation's fleet. Columbus made four voyages totaling 12 years on Caravel ships. The Columbus Foundation's aim is to educate the public on the type of ship that Columbus used to discover a new world in the year 1492. It was decided that the Niña would be built. ![]() After considerable research, as no authentic pictures of the original ships existed, it was determined that only one replica could be built due to money and time constraints. ![]() The Columbus Foundation was formed in 1986 in the British Virgin Islands to raise money to build the three ships that Christopher Columbus used in his encounter with the New World. Cheboygan County Marina Harbormaster Curtis Chambers said the ships stopped in Cheboygan about six years ago. The ships will be docking in Escanaba July 9-July 12. They will then move on to ports in Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Mississippi and, finally, Florida. The ships began their tour this year with several stops in New York, continuing on to Ohio and then Michigan. The Niña and Pinta made the local stop on their way from Bay City to Escanaba as part of their 2015 port schedule running from May 28 through November 29. Replicas of two ships that were used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic visited the Cheboygan County Marina for an overnight stay Monday.
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