Beautiful Sailing Ships

[Aktungbby]

YER full of it! sailing ships are ugly man! but then...I tend to see issues in Black and white...er orange

[CaptainRamius]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

YER full of it! sailing ships are ugly man! but then...I tend to see issues in Black and white...er orange

I hope your kidding

[Commander Wallace]

Beautiful Ship .

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by CaptainRamius

I hope your kidding

I'm in the Galley on the laptop as we speak...shop-vaccin' the rain-water outta the bilge and restorin' the teak table. At some of us 'talk the talk' ...and 'sail the sail'... I would say 'walk the walk' but I fell through the open sliding hatch two weeks ago (sober, I swear), hoisting a wind-driven mainsail; The (totally destroyed) galley table which broke my 6' 240lb fall and turned most of me purple left no bones broken (padded life jacket and thick-gauge plastic skullcap for boom-hits) after a trip to the hospital for x-ray'd lacerations, contusions. That's the CA Maritime Academy Golden Bear training ship(my nephew is enrolled) and Mare Island in the background (and occasionally use the marina's really big shopvac...for those really critical tasks.)

[Eichhörnchen]

[Aktungbby]

Four brave British crews thought: "THIS is an Ugly sight": History's #1 Frigate (as per post 1's French frigate) and still shootn' and (rarely) under her own power! (winds over 5 mph or she won't move but under 15 mph she's too old for more)

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

I saw this nice looking sloop (it's a sloop of war I think) while I was in Conway, Wales back a few years ago. I also have a photo of a single decked two masted ship docked next to the HMS Belfast but it photo is quite bad.

[Aktungbby]

Beautiful! but as the foremast is shorter (as also on a brig)than the mainmast AND there are two gaff rig masts What ya got there is a magnificent square rigged Schooner. At least two headsails to the bowsprit and possibly three.

the typical schooner has only two, with the foremast shorter than the mainmast. There may be a bowsprit to help balance the rig. The principal issue with a schooner sail plan is how to fill the space between the two masts most effectively. Traditional schooners were gaff rigged,

<Schooner The brig also has the shorter foremast but is not double gaffed(with two booms)>The brigantine, also two masted, has a fully rigged foremast, generally of equal height> definitely not a sloop-of-war such as USS Constellation>It's all a little confusing and I can't keep track of it (all that different rigging) myself No wonder they called it 'learning the ropes'

[CaptainRamius]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Four brave British crews thought: "THIS is an Ugly sight": History's #1 Frigate (as per post 1's French frigate) and still shootn' and (rarely) under her own power! (winds over 5 mph or she won't move but under 15 mph she's too old for more)

Aye, she's a beautiful ship. Lived 30 minutes away from her once, had a sleep out on the USS Constellation. Was great fun, especially firing the cannon at party boats