Clipper Ship Cards

Clipper ship trade cards are cards that were issued by dispatch lines to advertise specific voyages of clipper ships from one port (usually New York or Boston) to another (usually San Francisco). They were distributed primarily during the late 1850s and early 1860s.
During the pre-Gold Rush era, clipper ship sailings were advertised primarily by brief, unadorned announcements in newspapers. Once gold fever struck, posters and broadsides were the printed media most often used. For the rest of the story Click Here.

Queen of the Grand Banks Schooners

Sailing on Penobscot Bay, Part 3

Schooner Victory Chimes being pushed.
Ketch Angelique underway.

Angelique's Capt. Mike McHenry watches an approaching storm.

Maine windjammer fleet anchored at WoodenBoat.

Schooner Heritage sail away.

A Downeast Lobster bake.

Three masted schooner Victory Chimes.

Cape Horn, Part 1

GRACE QUAN

Grace Quan: A San Francisco Bay Shrimp Junk.
The Grace Quan is a 43-foot replica of a San Francisco Bay Chinese shrimp fishing junk.
Between 1860 and 1910, these were the workhorses of the Bay Area's Chinese–owned dried shrimp industry. The San Francisco Bay Shrimp Junks closely resembled vessels from the fishermen's home waters in Guangdong Province, China.

The Grace Quan and a historic image of a shrimp junk taken in the 1880s. Both photos show the San Francisco waterfront in the background.

Windjammer News October 2008

Maine Windjammer Association October 2008 Newsletter

Zanzibar Dhow

A dhow is a traditional Arab sailing vessel with one or more lateen sails. They are primarily used along the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, India, and East Africa. Larger dhows have crews of approximately thirty, while smaller dhows typically have crews of around twelve.

Emptied Oceans

Sailing on Penobscot Bay, Part 2

Getting underway
Hoist the Boats
Raise the Sails



Maine Windjammer Ketch ANGELIQUE

Collector Prints October Special

Collector Fine Art Prints: October Special

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Tristan Jones

Sloop GJOA & Roald Amundsen

Gjøa was the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three year journey, finishing in 1906. The 70 ft square-sterned 48 ton sloop was built by Kurt Johannesson Skaale in Rosendal, Norway in 1872, the same year Amundsen was born. For the next 28 years she served as a herring fishing vessel, before Amundsen bought her in 1900, for his forthcoming expedition to the Arctic Ocean . Gjøa was much smaller than vessels used by other Arctic expeditions, but Amundsen intended to live off the limited resources of the land and sea through which he was to travel, and reasoned that the land could sustain only a tiny crew. Roald Amundsen became the first European explorer to navigate through the Northwest Passage (1903-1906), and went on to become the first man to reach the South Pole (1911). For the rest of the story CLICK HERE.

Sailing on Penobscot Bay, Part 1

I recently returned from a photo assignment cruising Penobscot Bay, Downeast Maine aboard one of the Maine Windjammers, the ketch ANGELIQUE. This is part 1 of a multi-part photo essay from that week sailing with the Maine Windjammer Fleet. Bowsprit and boat of the ANGELIQUE docked in her homeport Camden, Maine

Schooners GRACE BAILEY & MERCANTILE in Camden, Maine.

Ketch ANGELIQUE underway and three-masted schooner VICTORY CHIMES off the starboard bow.

Restoration of the Barque James Craig

BARQUE JAMES CRAIG for the rest of the story Click Here