Tall Ships Set Sail in Galveston April 5-8

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A fleet of historic and historically inspired "tall ships" will race along the Gulf Coast as part of the first-ever Tall Ships Challenge in Galveston April 58.

Galveston will host the first stop of the 2018 event by showcasing the island's rich maritime history through ship visits and programs. While in port, the ships will be open to the public for viewing, and many will feature dockside exhibits and interactions with the crews. Visitors will also have the opportunity to embark on several of the ships for exhibition sails during the festival.


The Lynx was inspired by the original historic tall ship from the War of 1812the Privateer Lynx.


The three-masted topsail schooner Oosterschelde was built in 1918 as a sail-powered freighter that regularly navigated the Mediterranean Sea.


The Newport, Rhode Island-based Oliver Hazard Perry is the largest civilian Sailing School Vessel in the country and the first ocean-going full-rigged ship to be built in the U.S. in over 100 years.


...and of course the Elissa
p_bubel
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Forgot the link.


Argh, I would love to see this event.
one MEEN Ag
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Man that looks cool. Looks like all the excursion tickets are sold out though.
Hogties
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Would love to see those ships sailing. Thanks for posting. I'll check it out.
Cardiac Saturday
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Thanks for posting - will check out the link!
Cardiac Saturday
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Have always had a bit of fascination with sailing ships.
Googled around and stumbled on a wiki article on the Swedish warship Vasa which was on the bottom for over 300 years. It is a quite interesting article covering its sinking, archaeology and the attendant conservation issues and worth a look if you have any interest.
p_bubel
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Cardiac Saturday said:

Have always had a bit of fascination with sailing ships.
Googled around and stumbled on a wiki article on the Swedish warship Vasa which was on the bottom for over 300 years. It is a quite interesting article covering its sinking, archaeology and the attendant conservation issues and worth a look if you have any interest.
Look up the Mary Rose too.


I've always wanted to sail on the Elissa, but you have to put in some time volunteering as I understand it. And Galveston is just too far from San Antonio to make that practical.
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Cardiac Saturday said:

Have always had a bit of fascination with sailing ships.
Googled around and stumbled on a wiki article on the Swedish warship Vasa which was on the bottom for over 300 years. It is a quite interesting article covering its sinking, archaeology and the attendant conservation issues and worth a look if you have any interest.
And good for a morbid chuckle, too ...

It's hard to imagine a more dismal and short-lived career than that of the Royal Swedish ship Vasa. It was built in 1628 when the Swedish king demanded a ship larger than any other ship in the world. He even personally designed it himself, with the builders following his specifications down to the letter. No expense was spared, using literal tons of laminated oak with incredible hand-carved statues of gods, all backed up by a whopping 64 cannons for killing the **** out of any unfortunate ship or tiny continent it came across.


The king believed that "Second to God, the welfare of the kingdom depends on its navy." The Vasa was the largest wooden ship ever to set sail. Which it did, exactly once.

The Achilles Heel:

On the day of its maiden voyage, thousands of Swedes turned out to see their newest and grandest warship ever set sail for the first time. After four years of painstaking construction, the Vasa launched from port, fired its guns in salute and promptly fell over.

As it turns out, trusting your entire design to the king instead of someone whose actual job is making ships is a terrible idea. When the Vasa encountered its first wind only one nautical mile into its maiden voyage, the whole thing tipped over and sank. To put it simply, the biggest and most expensive sailboat ever built hadn't accounted for the possibility of wind.

The problem was that the portholes for all the cannons were so close to the waterline that as the ship swayed in the first gust, half the ocean flowed freely into its underbelly. The ship was later raised from the depths and dragged to a museum, presumably as a warning to other monarchs about meddling with **** they don't understand. Also because that sad pile of wood was the height of Sweden's naval power. Thousands of people who thought they would only witness the rise of the Swedish navy instead got the bonus of seeing its fall as well, all in one sitting.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19586_6-awesome-vehicles-war-with-ridiculous-weaknesses.html
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p_bubel said:

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A fleet of historic and historically inspired "tall ships" will race along the Gulf Coast as part of the first-ever Tall Ships Challenge in Galveston April 58.

Galveston will host the first stop of the 2018 event by showcasing the island's rich maritime history through ship visits and programs. While in port, the ships will be open to the public for viewing, and many will feature dockside exhibits and interactions with the crews. Visitors will also have the opportunity to embark on several of the ships for exhibition sails during the festival.


The three-masted topsail schooner Oosterschelde was built in 1918 as a sail-powered freighter that regularly navigated the Mediterranean Sea.

Dang. Global warming is for realz. The Mediterranean was full of Icebergs just a century ago....
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