Talk about a trip of a lifetime! Twelve 18- to 30-year-old men and women will embark on such a voyage this month when they cast off on a 2,700 nautical mile transatlantic passage ...
And just like that, they are gone … the wind filling their massive sails as they cruise towards their next destination. In mid-July, the island of Curaçao was home to eight majestic tall-ships originating from Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, the ...
Shipboard life back in the days of pirates and privateers was showcased when the tall ship El Galeón Andalucia made a port call to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. From February 22 to March 5, over 2000 of the island’s ...
Tall Ship Eye of the Wind bound for the Caribbean The traditional sailing tall ship Eye of the Wind will visit three continents in three months and cruise the Caribbean from January to March 2014. Nine one-week cruises will take ...
The St. Maarten Harbour Group of Companies has agreed to host the A Class tall ship Christian Radich when it arrives in St. Maarten January 3-6 2013 as part of the Norwegian vessel’s Caribbean itinerary that includes stop-overs in ...
While I spent most of my boating career as a cruiser, my initial sail training took place as a member of the all-volunteer crew of the 1877 tall ship Elissa in Galveston, Texas. A season spent memorizing 19 sails, dozens ...
The tall ship HMS BOUNTY was lost yesterday in Hurricane Sandy off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. One individual perished, and 14 others were rescued. ...
More than $1.4 million has been awarded to the state of Texas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help repair storm damage to the historic 1877 tall ship Elissa. The ship’s iron hull was corroded by stray current in ...
27TH ANNUAL PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW MARINE INDUSTRY SEES REASONS FOR OPTIMISM WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – There are signs at the Palm Beach International Boat Show, which took place in March along the waterfront on scenic Flagler Drive ...
The history of Washington, North Carolina is interwoven with that of the tall-masted schooners that were once a commonplace sight on the city’s waterfront, coming and going on the waters of the Pamlico River with all manner of raw materials ...
Texas Tall Ship Raising Funds for Hull Repairs Consider it an expensive reminder to check your sacrificial zincs after a storm. When Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston Island on Sept. 13, 2008, it pummeled the historic port. And riding ...
Savannah Tall Ships Challenge®, hosted by Savannah Riverfront and Visit Savannah, is recruiting volunteers for the five-day festival scheduled May 3-7. Guaranteed to be one of the most colorful and spectacular ticketed festivals our city has ever seen, the Savannah ...
A replica of one of the most famous sailing ships in history anchored in Charlotte Amalie harbor in December. Fresh from a European tour, the tall ship Bounty wasn’t in search of breadfruit, but instead a few days in drydock en ...
The Maritime School of the West Indies has received an invitation from the Tall Ship the "EENDRACHT" to bring three student / trainees on board to sail on a one week cruise in the Leeward Islands starting January 20 - ...