Sail ships

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Lotsa warships (& USN saildrones) off Cuban coast.

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Interesting Colregs conundrum
… all those saildrones around so much traffic and near a TSS…
… at least if one of them is rammed & sunk, we can have a test case!

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Chilean training tall ship entering Portsmouth Harbour, UK

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This is another wonderful restoration by Susan P. Fino. The details are incredible. Well worth a few minutes of your time to see how it was done way back then. It is hard to see unless you zoom in close, but that windless was driven by an up and down pump like action. Look close and you can see the rocker head. Also, a damn interesting way to anchor the cat heads down.

Source: Historic Vessel Vega

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Tall ship CHRISTIAN RADICH

Source: TALL SHIPS WORLD

CHRISTIAN RADICH - Sail Training International

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My first ship (Spring 1959):

Training ship “Sørlandet”, blt. 1927

The Story - The full rigger Sørlandet

PS> She was the last of the world’s “Tall ships” to get an engine. When I was onboard she still did not have a propulsion engine (Installed late 1959)

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The 1800s were the the “Age of White Sails” in Norway:

The White Sails - stories from the final years of Southern Norway’s age of...

The podcast (in English) linked here tells stories from that era, which may be of interest to those into maritime history.

One of the ships from that era was the Stratford, with homeport Arendal.
Stratford, built in Williamsburg, USA in 1850 as the full-rigger ARCTIC:

00/1850: Delivered as ARCTIC to Unknown owner, New York
i/1858: Sold to Zerega & Co., New York, USA
03/1864: Sold to Snow & Burgess, New York, USA
09/1864: Sold to Taylor, Tipper & Co, Liverpool, UK, new name STRATFORD
05/1865: Sold to H. Herlofson et al., Arendal
09/1875: Transferred to H. Herlofson’s Enke et al., Arendal
04/1887: Sold to AO Olsen etc., Stavanger
00/1898: Transferred to A/S Stratford (AO Olsen), Sandnes
00/1898: Rerigged to Bark
00/1904: Scrapped in Scotland

Source: Fullrigger Stratford - Sjøhistorie

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Visited her in 1978 during operation sail in Oslo. I was on Dar Pomorza then as cadet. Got some guides and collected her ship stamp. In tall ships class A Gorsch Fock won. Great time.

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Austal to build French cargo trimaran - Splash247

A contract for a first 67 m long trimaran featuring an aluminium hull will be signed with Austal soon.

Called L’avion des Mers – The Sea Plane – the ship’s backers claim it will offer unprecedented fast transit times. Benefiting from technology transfers from offshore racing, it will allow transatlantic crossings of less than 15 days 100% under sail.

“This is a unique alternative to transport valuable products such as industrial parts, healthcare equipment, cosmetics, or pharmaceuticals so they can avoid having inventory on the water for so long,” the company stated in a release yesterday.

VELA aims to begin operations between France and the US in the second half of 2026 with plans to ensure at least four additional ships are in operation by 2027-2028, allowing for one departure per week.

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Back to traditional sail ships:

Cruise The Faroe Islands on the iconic wooden sail ship The Norðlýsið (Nordic Lights).

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