The Tall Ships

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The Tall Ships

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Found a nice video of some "Tall Sailing Ships".

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Could you imagine running one of these tall sailing ships? :wink:
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WOW!


I would love to own that clip in Hi Def


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Too cool. I've been on a 3 masted tall ship, but those 5 stack boys are something to behold. Thats a lot of canvas aloft!
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I would love to go for a ride on one of those huge ships. Maybe spend a week on board of one of those 5 mast ships... Maybe one day... if I won the lottery, i buy one for myself and just live onboard and travel perhaps around the globe... :thumbup:
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mjsigns wrote:I would love to go for a ride on one of those huge ships. Maybe spend a week on board of one of those 5 mast ships... Maybe one day... if I won the lottery, i buy one for myself and just live onboard and travel perhaps around the globe... :thumbup:
You buy, I'll be glad to sail with you, but I sure as heck don't want to pay for the maintenance of those sails :o
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Those tall ships are totally awesome in appearance!
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The 60M Brig, Prince William is for sale.

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http://www.tallships.org/document.asp?cat=866&doc=7325" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Doesn't say how much, but I'm sure at 8 yrs. old and 1.5 million nautical miles somebody could work out a deal.

Personally though, I'm holding out for a Barquentine. There were a couple in the video. Think I'll outfit 'er with haze gray canvas, deck guns and gun ports. :-D

Okay, the wife is looking at me a little funny because I keep running the video over and over (really cool clip), and jumping around between different pages on the 'net.

I think the two nearly identical ships are part of the Windjammer Barefoot Cruises fleet.
http://www.windjammer.com/fleet.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The five-masted ship is the Royal Clipper.
http://www.starclippers.com/ships_rc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
At 439 feet with a 54 foot beam and a mast height of 197 feet, and at 5,000 tons, she might be a little tricky to trailer. :-D
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Charles wrote: At 439 feet with a 54 foot beam and a mast height of 197 feet, and at 5,000 tons, she might be a little tricky to trailer. :-D
Can you imagine calling SeaTow? :o
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