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and Port Festivals - Tall ships and sail-training vessels from Europe, North America and the Caribbean are getting ready to sail to the Great Lakes to participate in the 2001 Tall Ships Challenge® Race Series this summer. Ships from Russia, France, Canada, the United States, the Ukraine, the Bahamas, and the British and US Virgin Islands are expected to join the fun. Interspersed between the four race legs will be six tall-ship port.
In 2002, the Tall Ships Challenge® Race Series will visit Victoria, British Columbia; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, California. In 2003, the series is scheduled to return to the Atlantic Coast. |
| Nautical History Museums |
| Chesapeake
Bay Maritime Museum, where the stories of the Bay and its people come
alive! |
| Columbia River Maritime Museum has grown to become one of the West Coast's most respected and admired
museums, since its founding in 1962, |
| Maine
Maritime Museum, Founded in 1962.collects, preserves and interprets
materials relating to the maritime history of Maine |
| Maritime & Yachting Museum,
Stuart, Florida, is dedicated to preserving significant and irreplaceable boats and artifacts that provide a tangible link to the past,
maintaining a permanent record of maritime and yachting history that has helped shape the Treasure Coast and
Florida,and providing maritime and yachting educational programs that are based on knowledge of the past, and will stimulate imagination for the future. |
| Nautical
Heritage Society, Long Beach, California, supporting the Tall Ship
"Californian" |
| The Naval Undersea Museum,
Keyport, Washington, combines naval history, undersea technology, and marine science to create an exciting and educational experience for visitors. |
| Newport
Harbor Nautical Museum was organized by local residents who recognized
the need to preserve the unique maritime history of Newport Beach |
| Peabody
Essex Museum, The Maritime Art & History Collection, the best collection
of its kind in the nation. |
| San
Diego Maritime Museum, Home of the Star of India, the world's oldest
active ship |
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Living History
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Mark
Twain and Steamboats, yes, thanks to the Steamboat Org., steamboats
are plying the waterways and giving us a taste of the past!
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Anders Junnila's Sea
Journal, 1859-1869, The following document is the journal of the voyages of my great grandfather, Anders Johansson
Junnila, later known as Andrew Brown.
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Tall Ships and Their
Voyages
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American
Sail Training Association is a non-profit, national organization dedicated
to bringing a wealth of opportunities at sea, under sail, to people of
all ages and backgrounds, and to coordinating
the activities of the whole community of sail training vessels.
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The
Log of the Picton Castle , "Follow the deep-ocean voyaging and training
ship, Picton Castle, during her circumnavigation of the globe."
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Travels
with the Tall Ship Rose, which is a full-rigged ship, a replica of
an 18th century Royal Navy frigate that
cruised the American coast during the American Revolution. Her log, a guided
tour and her voyage.
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Victory at Sea...or
Shipwrecks of Sorrow
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The
Unforgettable Rescue, March 3, 1947, the Oakey L. Alexander broke apart,
was beached by her captain and all hands saved.
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Shipwrecks of
the Great Lakes, an extensive undertaking listing everything you may
want to know about the shipwrecks and history of the Great Lakes.
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The
Maritime Heritage Project - Occasionally there is a fine line between News and Tall Tales. Eastern Press and San Francisco's newspapers had a field day with stories from California's Gold Fields. Some of these writings should be taken with a grain of salt. For the most part, the articles were chosen in an attempt to give an overview of waterfront life in early San Francisco. Occasionally a piece is included from San Francisco's papers simply because it is so amusing.
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Sites about Tall Ships
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Schooner
Man is a site for you if you love the sight of the schooner on the sea. The feel of your feet on the deck of
the schooner as it rides over the ocean waves. The power of the wind as it fills the sails and move a mighty
schooner on it way. If you enjoy the challenge of facing the elements from the clear star filled nights to the wind
blowing at gale force... you're a schooner man. We have information on tall ships from the Seven Seas and the
sweet seas too. If you are looking for information on a schooner, brig, brigantine, bark and fully rigged tall ship
start your search here. So visit with us these tall ships of yesterday and meet the seafaring men that sailed them.
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Adventure,
A National Historic Monument - A bowspritless "knockabout," 121'6" from stem to stern,
Adventure was solidly built of oak and pine in Essex, Massachusetts in 1926. Carrying a full sailing rig, diesel engine and 14 dories, she spent the next 27 years fishing the North Atlantic's bountiful outer banks from her home port of Gloucester. Known as a
"highliner," she was the biggest money-maker of all time, landing nearly $4 million worth of Cod and other ground fish during her 27 year career.
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