Wooden Tall Ships

Handing - Bringing the sail back to its yard, spar or stay in preparation for furling and gasketing.
Hermaphrodite Brig - The former name for a brigantine, now generally used to describe a brig that has only main and topmasts on its main or aftermast, and no topgallant mast.
Hermaphrodite Brigantine - A two-masted tall ship that […]

Astern - in, at or towards the rear of a tall ship, or in a backwards motion.
Barque - A sailing vessel, usually three-masted. A barque would be square-rigged on the first and second masts(foremast and mainmast) and fore and aft rigged on the third mast(the mizzen mast).
Barquentine - Similar to a barque but square-rigged on […]

In 2007 there will be a Fastnet race that will be sailing between the Prince William and Stavros Niarchos. The tall ships race is part of the American Tall Ships Challenge Race series in 2007. The tall ship Prince William will assemble with the fleet in Charleston, South Carolina during May to July competing in […]

I am just in the process of reading “Over the edge of the world” by Laurence Bergreen which is about Magellan’s terrifying circumnavigation of the globe. Ferdinand Magellan took three years to sail around the world. Well one of his ships actually finished it, Magellan was killed in the Phillippines and of course did not […]