Beautiful Sailing Ships

CaptainRamius · 11-25-15, 01:42 PM

The Age of Sail is long over, but sailing ships still remain beautiful in their own way. The way the bow breaks over the waves and the ensign flying at the stern, it makes my heart melt.
Who else thinks that sailing ships are beautiful, even when compared to today's yachts?

Aktungbby · 11-25-15, 01:53 PM

YER full of it! sailing ships are ugly man!

but then...I tend to see issues in Black and white...er orange

CaptainRamius · 11-25-15, 01:55 PM

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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 · 11-25-15, 02:11 PM

Beautiful Ship .

Aktungbby · 11-25-15, 02:27 PM

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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 · 11-25-15, 02:48 PM

Aktungbby · 11-25-15, 03:34 PM

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)

pinner2010 · 01-08-16, 06:39 PM

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Aktungbby · 01-08-16, 07:04 PM

HMS Sultana Replica on Chester River, Maryland

Jimbuna · 01-09-16, 07:22 AM

The Dutch vessel Europa

ivanov.ruslan · 01-09-16, 08:41 AM

Thanks for this post!

bertieck476 · 01-09-16, 08:54 AM

I do like the tall ships, I sailed home from douarnenez some years ago when a couple of tallships sailed into a fog bank ahead of us, very eerie when all you can see is the very topsail.

Saltback · 06-04-16, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The Dutch vessel Europa

If this was My Ship Them Sails would be nicely pressed.

Aktungbby · 06-04-16, 10:43 AM

Saltback!

Jimbuna · 06-05-16, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Saltback

If this was My Ship Them Sails would be nicely pressed.

Best if you address that issue with the wife

11-25-15, 01:53 PM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,979 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	YER full of it! sailing ships are *ugly* man! but then...I tend to see issues in Black and white...er orange __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,979 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	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) __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,979 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	HMS Sultana Replica on Chester River, Maryland __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

11-25-15, 01:42 PM	#1
CaptainRamius Sonar Guy Join Date: May 2014 Location: In shallow waters Posts: 388 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Beautiful Sailing Ships The Age of Sail is long over, but sailing ships still remain beautiful in their own way. The way the bow breaks over the waves and the ensign flying at the stern, it makes my heart melt. Who else thinks that sailing ships are beautiful, even when compared to today's yachts? Last edited by CaptainRamius; 11-26-15 at 01:12 AM.

11-25-15, 02:11 PM	#4
Commander Wallace Navy Seal Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade Posts: 5,294 Downloads: 366 Uploads: 0	Beautiful Ship .

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,456 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	The Dutch vessel Europa __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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ivanov.ruslan The Old Man Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Pleven,BG Posts: 1,577 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 0	Thanks for this post!

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bertieck476 Chief Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 327 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	I do like the tall ships, I sailed home from douarnenez some years ago when a couple of tallships sailed into a fog bank ahead of us, very eerie when all you can see is the very topsail.

06-04-16, 10:43 AM	#14
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,979 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Welcome back Saltback! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!