I’ve Seen The Most Fantastic Square Rigged Ship
Ξ August 21st, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Bryan, Bryan And More Bryan |
There’s a bay near me and we had a fantastic experience last weekend.
There’s a ship in the day that you just had to see to believe. It’s got 3 masts and it’s absolutely huge. At a guess I’d say it has to be 200 feet long.
It’s a square rigged ship. That means that it has booms on the masts and the sails hanging from the booms and blow out underneath them. I counted the booms and there’s 5 of them on each of the masts.
It is stacked with sails. It’s just got sails everywhere and it came up the bay with all of the sails up.
It was quite windy so it was going quite fast, you could see the waves coming off the bow. It just looked spectacular sailing along out in the bay all by itself.
I asked someone who was also watching it where it came from and they told me it came from Holland. It’s what is called a sail training ship and they take young people out sailing for a few weeks on the ship to give them experience of life on board an old ship.
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