Youth Team Sets Sail in Atlantic Rally for Cruisers
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
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Velas Latinoamérica Curaçao 2018: A Touch of Class
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 USA, Colombia, Chile and Portugal. For three wonderful days the seafront was filled with music…
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Tall Ship El Galeón Andalucia Visits the USVI
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 school children, families and visitors toured the full-size replica of the 16th to 18th century-era…
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NEWS: Tall Ship Eye of the Wind Bound for Caribbean
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 tall ship to Barbados, Martinique, Antigua, St. Martin, the British Virgin Islands and, finally,…
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Tall Ship Christian Radich to Visit St Maarten
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 St. Lucia and Antigua. The news was announced by President of the Caribbean Sail Training…
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Historic Tall Ship HMS Bounty Shall Be Missed
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 of lines and the actions required after receiving innumerable commands molded our crew into a…
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HMS Bounty Lost at Sea During Hurricane Sandy
The tall ship HMS BOUNTY was lost yesterday in Hurricane Sandy off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. One individual perished, and 14 others were rescued.
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Tall Ship Elissa Repair Effort Gets FEMA Boost
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 Galveston Harbor after Hurricane Ike hit the island in 2008. The funding will cover the…
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Southeast News and Views for May 2012
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 in West Palm Beach, that the much anticipated turnaround of the yachting industry has begun….
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Tall Ship Jeanie B Calling on Washington NC
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 and finished goods for commerce with other parts of the state, up and down the…
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The 1877 Barque Elissa Raising Funds for Hull Repairs
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 proudly in her berth at the Texas Seaport Museum was the 1877 Barque Elissa, the…
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Volunteers Sought for Savannah Tall Ships Challenge®
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 Tall Ships Challenge® will feature 14 domestic and international tall ships as well as performances, reenactments,…
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Tall Ship Bounty Visits the Caribbean – No Mutiny Reported
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 route to its winter home between Piers 3 and 4 in Old San Juan, Puerto…
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Tall Ship EENDRACHT to Take Three Trainees on Board in St Martin
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 – 27.
