Beautiful Sailing Ships

[Aktungbby]

Gittin' "put to it" under full sail:HMS Golden Hind on her commemorative voyage In the Pacific off the US

[Jimbuna]

Kaskelot

[Aktungbby]

The Golden Hind, historic sailing ship, Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind replica under full sail, Pacific Ocean, commemorating Drake's around the world (1577-1580) Voyage of Discovery, Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Washington State, ship on port tack, viewed from the stern,

[Sailor Steve]

That poster contains an interesting combination of old and new. The best example is the ketch, which in modern terms is fore-and-aft rigged. In the days of fighting sail a 'ketch' was almost always square rigged, and defined as having a main and a mizzen mast, and looking like a square-rigged ship without the foremast.
-The Line Of Battle, Conway's History Of The Ship Series, Glossary by Robert Gardiner

[Jimbuna]

Guayas

[Aktungbby]

Not quite correct(on a 'gaff' rigged boat as posts 106 &114 demonstrate) but still lookin' GOOD! http://www.usps.org/national/fecom/faq/flag/gaffpole.html

Many people are confused about the proper way to fly the national ensign from a gaff-rigged pole. As depicted in the drawing on the left, the national ensign should be flown from the gaff and the club or organization burgee should be flown at the masthead.
The usual argument given by those that think it is wrong to fly the national ensign from the gaff is that the national ensign is flying below a club burgee or other flag contrary to the Flag Code. Notice that even when the national ensign is flown from the stern of a ship, it is lower in height than other flags flying on the ship. When the ensign is flown from a gaff-rigged pole, a flag flown at the top of the mast is not considered above the ensign because it is not being flown directly above the ensign on the same halyard.
The ensign should be flown from the highest point of honor, and over time, that has become the peak of the gaff. Flying the national ensign from the top of the mast while flying another flag at the gaff would be flying another flag in a position of superior honor since the peak of the gaff is the highest point of honor.
The Palm Coast Yacht Club near St. Augustine, Florida had a continuing battle with a local veterans group which insisted the club was showing disrespect for the flag by flying it at the gaff of the club's flagstaff, a point physically lower than the club's burgee which is flown at the masthead. The matter was settled only after the club obtained a letter from the Secretary of the Navy confirming the fact that in the world of yacht clubs the highest physical point of a flagpole is not necessarily the place of honor.

As a former federal guard charged with raising and lowering the colors on official buildings with any number of patriotic onlookers watching my every move... ya get a little fussy and reported if that banner touches the ground! (A tough job for 1 man in a 20 knot wind with a garrison-sized flag!)

[Jimbuna]

Stavros S Niarchos

[Aktungbby]

Above and below the waterline

[Jimbuna]

HMS Bounty

[CaptainRamius]

Sailing Yacht "A" - While technically a motor sailer...

[Catfish]

^ this is .. an abomination, not a sailing ship. I swear it only swims because the water rejects it


And a question to Aktung, why is the »Golden Hind« on port tack, in the 3rd picture? In german it would currently run on "Steuerbord-Bug" (~"starboard bow, starboard is right, port or larboard is left ?), or does it state where the wind comes from, in english terminology?)

And the »Bounty«, just wonderful..

Thanks for those pictures, nice

[Jimbuna]

Semaine Du Golfe

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Catfish

And a question to Aktung, why is the »Golden Hind« on port tack, in the 3rd picture? In german it would currently run on "Steuerbord-Bug" (~"starboard bow, starboard is right, port or larboard is left ?), or does it state where the wind comes from, in english terminology?

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GOOD EYE! and I had caught that myself as it appears to be a 'quartering starboard tack-almost straight downwind- but with the wind still coming from the astern starboard quarter. So I looked at a lot of pictures of the 'hind' on the stern of the Golden Hind and it is in both directions; ergo I believe the negative was reversed so I went with the article's own caption quote. vsas opposed to the present version on the berthed vessel's stern in London?

[Jimbuna]

Stavros S Niarchos

[Aktungbby]

Running Rigging of a Merchant Sailing Ship (note: many merchant men were painted to look like gun-ported war-ships...better for business!)

1.Flying jib-guys.
2. Standing jib-guys.
3 . Spritsail lifts.
4 Spritsail braces.
5 Fore-yard tackles.
6 Main-yard tackles.
7 Fore-lifts.
8 Fore-braces.
9 Main-lifts.
10. Main-braces.
11. Cross-jack lifts.
12 Cross-jack braces.
13 Slings of fore-yard.
14 Slings of main-yard.
15 Slings of cross jack-yard.
16 Fore-top-sail-lifts.
17 braces.
1 8 reef-tackles.
19 Main-top-sail-lifts.
20 braces.
21 reef-tackles.
22 Mizen-top-sail-lifts.
23 Mizen-top-sail braces. -
24- Fore-top-gallant-lifts.
25 Fore-top-gallant-braces.
26 Fore-top-gallant-halliards.
27 Main-top-gallant-lifts.
28 Main-top-gallant braces.
29 Main-top-gallant halliards.
30 Top-gallant-lifts.
31 Top-gallant .braces.
32 Top-gallant halliards
33 Fore Royal Lifts.
34 Fore Royal braces
35 Fore-royal halliards.
36 Main-royal-lifts.
37 Main-royal braces.
38 Main-royal halliards.
39 Signal halliards.
40 Mizen-royal-lifts.
41 Mizen-royal- braces.
42 Mizen-royal-halliards.
43 Fore-top-sail tie and halliards.
44- Main-top-sail tie and halliards.
45 Mizen-top-sail tie and halliards.
46 Mizen-gaff peak halliards.
47 Mizen-gaff throat halliards.
48 Mizen-gaff -vang-pendants and falls.
49 Mizen-gaff signal halliards.< WHERE U Put the flag sailor!
50 Spanker-boom topping-lift.
51 Spanker-boom quarter guys.
52 Spanker-boom sheet.
53 Spritsail-yard.
54- Fore-yard.
55 Main-yard.
56 Cross-jack-yard.
57 Fore-top-sail-yard.
58 Main-top-sail-yard.
59 Mizen-top-sail-yard.
60 Fore-top-gallant-yard.
61 Main-top-gallant-yard.
62 Mizen-top-gallant-yard.
63 Fore-royal-yard.
64- Main-royal-yard.
65 Mizen-royal-yard.
66 Spanker boom.
67 Spanker gaff.