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daftnewt

Tally and Belay

Oct 04, 2008 20:46

So, on Sunday Sept. 7th - you see how hot and up to date the content is here - the fencing club had an afternoon excursion on the St. Lawrence II, Kingston's sail training brigantine, and, well I wouldn't be posting about it if I hadn't gone, would I?

(Excursus: There should be a name for that thing where you go off and do something novel and ( Read more... )

hobbies, fun with friends, 180 minutes before the mast, wheeee

Comments 6

drcpunk October 5 2008, 07:16:40 UTC

Wow.

mylescorcoran October 5 2008, 07:17:30 UTC

Cool. She looks a lovely vessel, and reminds me (sadly) of the Asgard II, an Irish Navy training ship, that went down in the Bay of Biscay last month.

Sounds and looks like a great day out. Well done that snakey!

anonymous October 5 2008, 16:14:53 UTC

Hurray, I've seen these!

Most unfortunately, daily disinterest has me noticing the guy with the Dany Heatley #15 shirt above all. My mind laughed.

Boats. They kick ass. Because they're on the sea. And the sea's fun. Oh yes very. :3

I HAVE NO NEED TO ASK WHETHER YOU HAD A GOOD TIME OR NOT, FOR I AM ALREADY AWARE YOU HAD. REJOICE.

-- Person who likes stingrays

sammywol October 6 2008, 07:14:54 UTC

Here's the salt.
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WooooW! Coool!! I saw the St Lawrence II when she came to Cork for the Tall Ships Race the time before last. Handsome! The brigantine's were the most spectacular of the ships with their sails set.

Doesn't the ship look a lot smaller when looking at it from above. Eep!

daftnewt October 6 2008, 13:43:43 UTC

Yes; it was especially fun when the freshening wind made the ship heel ever so slightly...which meant at the top of the mast that I was directly over the water rather than the deck!

(does a bunch of internetting) Was that race in 2005? I think saw the first ASTA Tall Ships Challenge Race in 2001, when they came to Kingston, me being here in the summer on holiday from Japan. I could just be making that up though.

They were on the Pacific Coast this year - next year is going to be transatlantic, finishing in Belfast. Then 2010 is back to the Great Lakes, with a stop in Kingston - I hope I'm around to see it!

sammywol October 6 2008, 19:19:00 UTC

Nope. Back when it was the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race - cannot seem to find out when that was but it was sometime back in the 1990s I am sure.

The Tall Ships came to Copenhagen in 1988 when I was working there as a student, cleaning my way through the summer. Bizarrely I was cleaning the Royal Yacht Club. Came away with a good few souvenirs of the race that were thrown out at the end - ash trays, towels etc.. Copenhagen has an amazing inner harbour that stretches right down past the royal palace and into the heart of the city and the quays were lined with gorgeous ships, including two enormous Russian jobs that were too deep draft to get into the inner harbour and had to be viewed from the naval base.