Published on Apr 11, 2015 In this week’s WoW the girls on SCA in the Volvo hit an Atlantic Ocean “trash-bump” and knock-down, The Cowes-Dinard Cross English Channel record is broken, the final day of the BVI Spring Regatta, In Australia the boats are heading north to the warmer weather starting with the annual Brisbane-Gladstone …
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UNCAS was build by Artisan Boatworks in 2012. Video credit – Alison Langley Photography, www.langleyphoto.com.
The Little Ships of England – 1943 Wooden Boatbuilding Educational Documentary – Ella73TV A look at the traditional craft of wooden boat building, and the important roles those little ships play. ‘From the woods of Britain comes timber–oak, ash and elm–for the little ships. The scene shifts to skilled shipwrights at work in a West- …
The Last Cape Horners – The End of the Great Sailing Ship Era Gustaf Erikson of Finland owned the last great fleet of sailing ships the world would ever see. He employed them in the last trade left to the sailing ship, the carriage of grain from Australia to Europe by way of treacherous Cape …
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The Great Star Fleet At the turn of the 20th Century, the Alaska Packers Association assembled the largest fleet of privately owned sailing ships in the world. It was an era in which the shipping industry was mothballing its sailing ships in favor of faster steam powered vessels. The APA didn’t need speed; it needed …