| 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 seafarers that sailed them..
Barque:
Sailing vessel with three or more masts: fore and aft rigged on
aftermast, square rigged on all others.
Barkentine-3
Masted with Sq rigged on fore mast only
Brig- is a two-masted vessel with both masts square rigged. On
the sternmost mast, the main mast, there is also a gaff sail
Brigantine- is a two-masted vessel fore mast being square rigged
Cutter- A sailboat with one mast and rigged a
mainsail and two headsails. Also see sloop
Greek
Galley Early sailing vessel 500bc
Ketch-Two-masted boats, the after mast shorter, but with a ketch
the after mast is forward of the rudder post
Knockabout:
- a type of schooner without a bowsprit.
Schooner:
- sailing ships with at least 2 masts (foremast and mainmast) with the
mainmast being the taller. Word derives from the term "schoon/scoon"
meaning to move smoothly and quickly. ( a 3-masted vessel is called a
"tern")
Topsail
Schooner A schooner with a square rigged sail on forward mast
Windjammer - a
non- nautical term describing square rigged sailing ships and large
sailing merchantman, especially in the last day of commerical sailing.
The orginal term windjamer was intented as insult from the crews of
steamships. The return insult from the sailors was stinkpotter
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After the Sea-Ship
Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
| AFTER the Sea-Ship—after
the whistling winds; |
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| After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and
ropes, |
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| Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting
up their necks, |
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| Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the
ship: |
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| Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely
prying, |
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| Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous
waves, |
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| Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant,
with curves, |
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| Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking,
displaced the surface; |
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| Larger and smaller waves, in the spread of the
ocean, yearnfully flowing; |
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| The wake of the Sea-Ship, after she
passes—flashing and frolicsome, under the sun, |
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| A motley procession, with many a fleck of foam, and
many fragments, |
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| Following the stately and rapid Ship—in the wake
following.. |
Schooner
& Sailing Terms
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Events
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mission of the American Sail Training Association is to encourage
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Great Chesapeake Bay
Schooner Race
July
10 - 12, 2008: Port Alberni, British Columbia
www.portalbernitallships.ca
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