In an English harbor sits this replica of the Matthew, a ship that sailed from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1497 under Venetian explorer Giovanni Caboto, better known by the Anglicized name John Cabot. Though it is a recreation of the original, this replica is seaworthy and has shown itself to be capable of crossing the Atlantic. Christopher Columbus has reached the Bahamas in 1492, but Cabot was the first modern European explorer to reach the North American mainland. (Vikings are known to have traveled to Vineland centuries earlier, and Cabot is…
