Modern harbors are crowded with steel hulls and humming engines, not tall masts and canvas. The global fleet has traded wind for fuel because commercial shipping, naval power, and leisure boating now ...
Visitors to Provincetown can get a hint of how the skyline at the harbor once appeared — bristling with wooden masts, booms and yards — as a tall ship comes to port and lowers her gang plank to ...
Four tall ships are docked at the Detroit Wayne County Port Authority for Sail Fest Detroit. The crews that maintain and sail the boat manually are aboard the boats to talk to members of the public ...
THE MAKING OF A SAILOR—Alan J. Villiers—Morrow ($4). On a Baltic cruise in 1937, Alan John Villiers, author of The Cruise of the Conrad and of many a lyric tribute to the beauty of sailing vessels, ...
No one at City Hall or Galveston Historical Foundation seems quite sure how long Elissa has been on the city's official seal. Nevertheless, the restoration of the old iron-hulled barque into a ...