Maine Windjammer April Newsletter

Maine Windjammer April 2010 Newsletter

Jewel of Muscat

The JEWEL OF MUSCAT is a reconstruction of an arab trading ship 1,200 years old, sailed into the port of Galle, Sri Lanka, a staging post on its journey across the Indian Ocean from the Arabian peninsula to Singapore.

Barque SWALLOW

Maritime Heritage Photograph: Barque SWALLOW

Camden Windjammer Fleet

The Maine Windjammer Fleet in Camden Harbor soon

to be refitted for the 2010 sailing season.

Schooner LEWIS R. FRENCH

Maine Windjammer Schooner LEWIS R. FRENCH

Maine Windjammers March Newsletter

Maine Windjammer Association March 2010 Newsletter

Sloop CLEARWATER

Hudson River Sloop CLEARWATER

Bark EUROPA

Bark EUROPA

Schooner BLUENOSE

Haiti Relief Voyage

Haiti Relief Voyage aboard the schooner LIBERTY

Schooner Race of Old

Schooner Race of old: Library of congress photo.

CHARLES W. MORGAN Restoration

Milling lumber for the retoration of the Whaler MORGAN at Mystic Seaport.

Schooner ADVENTRESS

Schooner ADVENTURESS readies for the coming sailing season.

Schooner VICTORY CHIMES

Three masted schooner VICTORY CHIMES built 1900 now part of the passenger trade out of Rockland, Maine

Pride of Baltimore II Hauled

PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II

Restoration of the MORGAN

Restoration of the whaler CHARLES W. MORGAN at Mystic Seaport goes Hi-Tech.

Tall Ship Races 2010

At Sea Sail Training The NetherlandsSail Training International

Windjammer February Newsletter

Maine Windjammer Association February 2010 NEWSLETTER

Brig For Sale

Tall ship the brig PRINCE WILLIAM is for sale.

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Captain Kip Files

Captain Kip Files of the Downeast three masted schooner

VICTORY CHIMES

SV Concordia Lost at Sea

The sailing ship SV Concordia, based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, sank off the coast of Brazil, all 64 passengers were rescued from rafts Friday. The tall ship went down off the Brazilian coast near Rio de Janeiro while en route to Uruguay, survivors reported that the ship encountered strong winds before it went down.

Schooner Roseway

Schooner ROSEWAY

Tall Ship STAD AMSTERDAM

Dutch clipper ship Stad Amsterdam will be visiting Sydney on its international voyage retracing Charles Darwin’s famous journey in the Beagle. Darwin’s original voyage led to his theory of evolution and the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.

Tall Ship CUTTY SARK

The ship was originally due to re-open in 2009 but Cutty Sark suffered a major fire on 21 May 2007 which resulted in a 14-month delay on the project and significantly increased costs. Thankfully, due to heroic fire-fighting there was amazingly little damage to the ship’s original material and the Conservation Project can continue as planned. With additional significant financial contributions the Cutty Sark Conservation Project is back on course, due to re-open in 2011.

Yacht Schooner AMERICA

Replica of the legendary yacht that won the America's Cup in 1881.

Windjammer January 2010 Newsletter

Maine Windjammer January 2010 Newsletter

Schooner Dennis Sullivan

The Denis Sullivan was launched in 2000, a 137' three-masted, wooden, gaff rigged schooner homeported in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a flagship of the state of Wisconsin. The Denis Sullivan design was inspired by the Great Lakes cargo schooners of the 19th century. Like many of those schooners, she carries a raffee, a square-rigged fore topsail which is triangular in shape.

PhotoCruises aboard HERITAGE

2010 PhotoCruises aboard the Schooner HERITAGE with Maritime photographer Fred LeBlanc 4 Day cruise June and 5 Day cruise August 23

HMB ENDEAVOUR

Why is it HMB not HMS Endeavour?
The B stands for Bark. In the 18th century, ships were classified by their hull shape. A ship with a flat bow and square stern was called a bark. If the ship didn't fit any category and its captain's rank was lieutenant, this ship was also classified a bark. Cook himself mostly referred to the original ship as "His Britannick Majesty's Bark".

Maritime Museum 2010 program for HMB Endeavour replica. (For the Rest of the story Click Here.)

J-Boat SHAMROCK V

Between 1930 and 1939 the America's Cup races in Newport were sailed on enormous J-class boats. Sir Thomas Lipton (Lipton Tea) built Shamrock V in 1930 as one of the first of the J-class boats, the hull is wood and the length is 120 ft. overall, when the wind is just right, the sails move the 146 ton sloop up to 12.5 knots. The flag at the top of the mast is 160 ft. above the water (about the height of a 16-story office building). Shamrock V is the only J to have been in continuous commission, since her last refit in 2000, Shamrock V has sailed across the Pacific, attended the America's Cup in New Zealand and is now in the Mediterranean.

( Library of Congress photo )

Schooner A. J. Meerwald

The A.J.Meerwald is a Delaware Bay oyster schooner, a distinct vessel that evolved to meet the needs of the local oyster fishery. Launched in 1928, the A.J.Meerwald was one of hundreds of schooners built along South Jersey's Delaware Bayshore before the decline of the shipbuilding industry that coincided with the Great Depression. A.J.Meerwald seeks volunteers to work on ship (For the Rest of the Story Click Here).

Schooner Lynx arrives Flordia

The celebrated War of 1812 privateer square top sail schooner has arrived from Hawaii & California in Florida and is scheduled for a five-year mission along the East Coast of the United States and Canada to participate in the Great Lakes United Tall Ships Challenge Series during the summer of 2010 and then will remain on the East Coast to participate in the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the Star-Spangled Banner. The 114 ton LYNX is an interpretation of a privateer or naval schooner from the War of 1812. She is fitted with period ordnance and flies pennants and flags from the 1812 era the crew wear period dress and operate the ship in keeping with the maritime traditions of early 19th Century America. New England built she was launched on July 28, 2001 in Rockport, Maine.

Michingan Schooner Fest 2009

Cape Neddick " Nubble " Light

Cape Neddick "Nubble" Lighthouse York, Maine
Tower height 41' Established 1879