Lucky you, Ed!  Fascinating stuff.  I'm a bit surprised that
no attention, apparently, was paid to the different measuring
standards.  Standards varied from country to country until
very recently.  Reading documents from early California means
translating fanegas to bushels, and interpreting both for
the Russian volumes.

I remember the Vasa, but somewhat vaguely.  Is there someplace
where I can look at the cooperage on board?  Did coopering
artifacts survive?

I'm up to my ears in researching earlier coopering, and Northern
European cooper material would be very high on my list of things to
know and document.

Mike in Sacto