Tall Ship Sailor
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Tall Ship Sailor
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Author : Dan Hayden
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2021-07-14
Tall Ship Sailor written by Dan Hayden and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-14 with Fiction categories.
To a regular passerby, the ship seemed as if it was a lonesome thing, abandoned and forgotten. The disarray of normally taut lines and sheets that hung loosely from their spars suggested the ship had been inactive and somewhat neglected. A traditionally active sailing vessel, normally full of human activity, was now quiet and dormant, aching for action and people to occupy her decks. The wind from the busy harbor whistled by her wooden masts and through her hundreds of lines making an eerie sound. The gentle rocking of the ship creaked in unison as the waves lapped against the wharf’s old wooden piers. The Defiant waited. Soon there would be an opportunity.
Fair Wind And Plenty Of It
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Author : Rigel Crockett
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-07-23
Fair Wind And Plenty Of It written by Rigel Crockett and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-23 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In the tradition of Godforsaken Sea and In the Heart of the Sea, Fair Wind and Plenty of It is a virtuoso debut by a sailor turned scribe -- a must-read for lovers of nautical adventure. On November 25th, 1997, the barque Picton Castle, a three-masted, square-rigged tall ship, headed out from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on a voyage around the world. Aboard ship a shifting crew of thirty, a combination of professional sailors and paying crew who were out $32,500 for the privilege of working “crew before the mast,” would travel for over a year and half, calling in at ports as exotic and varied as Aruba, Somoa, Bali and Zanzibar. Fair Wind and Plenty of It tells the story of an obsession, as Captain Dan Moreland, driven by a desire to make his mark in the world of traditional sail, rallies forces to convert a sixty-nine-year-old North Sea trawler into a seaworthy tall ship, and then assembles the crew to sail it. It’s the story of the uneasy balance that is achieved on board, where insubordination and rancour must be kept in line among a crew whose only connection is their common desire to be part of this journey. And it is Rigel’s story: a man who was conceived the day his father laid the keel for his first boat, whose mother was a sailmaker, and who has to reconcile his family legacy with his own need to understand why he must take part in the voyage of the barque Picton Castle. In Fair Wind and Plenty of It, Rigel Crockett tells a tale of shipboard camaraderie, gut-wrenching struggles and the near-mutinies that marked the year-and-a half journey -- where fellow shipmates proved to be as perilous as the ever-present sea.
The Way Of The Ship
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Author : Richard Runciman Terry
language : en
Publisher: Fireship Press
Release Date : 2009-03
The Way Of The Ship written by Richard Runciman Terry and has been published by Fireship Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03 with History categories.
"This book is a gold mine for anyone who wants to know how the sea shanty was authentically used and sung." They say that sea shanties-authentic sea shanties-are no more. They died with the sailing ship, and will never again be heard in their original form. Or... will they? Richard Runciman Terry was born in 1865 to a family that had been seafarers as far back as the family history could be traced. As a child, he grew up hearing shanties sung to him by his uncles and grand-uncles-all tall-ship sailors. As a boy, he was constantly found among ships, learning more shanties, songs, and sea lore. As an adult he became one of the premier musicians of his day, as a noted organist, choir director and musicologist; but he never forgot the songs that originally inspired his love of music. Just after the turn of the century, he decided to capture as much of that dying musical heritage as he could. He sought out his relatives, and their friends, and the friends of their friends-coaxing and cajoling them into singing their repertoire of shanties so he could write them down. What he wanted was to hear the way shanties were sung, by the men who had actually worked the tall ships, and for whom the shanty had been an integral part of their everyday lives. He wanted to record the songs exactly as those men sung them, so they would not be lost to future generations. In 1921, he published his archive in the first of two books, the second one coming in 1926. Both long out of print books, with his explanatory notes and annotations, are presented here. 65 Authentic Shanties from the Age of Sail
Sailing To The Far Horizon
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Author : Pamela Sisman Bitterman
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2012-08-04
Sailing To The Far Horizon written by Pamela Sisman Bitterman and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.
Tall Ships Down
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Author : Daniel S. Parrott
language : en
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Release Date : 2002-10-01
Tall Ships Down written by Daniel S. Parrott and has been published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-01 with Science categories.
For all its soul-stirring romance, the tall-ship renaissance has a tragic side, and professional mariner and maritime scholar Parrott explores it in this groundbreaking reconstruction of five controversial sea disasters of the past half century. 45 photos. 5 maps.
A Sailor S Sweetheart
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
A Sailor S Sweetheart written by William Clark Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.
A Sailor S Sweetheart
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
A Sailor S Sweetheart written by William Clark Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Shipwrecks categories.
A Sailor S Sweetheart
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
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Tall Ships Of The World
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Author : C. Keith Wilbur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Tall Ships Of The World written by C. Keith Wilbur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Transportation categories.
This stem-to-stern exploration of the most magnificent ships to ply the sea offers a wealth of information on the 150-year history of tall ships -- how they were built, how they operate, and what it is like to live and work aboard them.
A Sailor S Sweetheart
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-30
A Sailor S Sweetheart written by William Clark Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with categories.