Thread: Tall Ships......

Hey Randy, thanks for the treat, I think it would be great to go on one these, until I turned green and threw up!

Thanks very much for sharing those. Beautiful ships!

There is an elegance of those old vessels that reminds me so much of a blue marlin...

Another fan of the tall ships here. I live close to Gloucester in the UK and one of the very few shipyards that specialise in repairs to tall ships and wooden vessels in general, Tommy Neilson's, is based in Gloucester docks. There is often something to see in the docks or Tommy's dry dock.

Here are a few I've seen recently, the first taken from my narrowboat on the Gloucester Sharpness canal and my favourite! The Matthew out of Bristol.



In the Gloucester docks a year or so ago. The Matthew is in the foreground and the ship on on the right, the Earl of Pembroke was Horatio Hornblower's ship in the BBC series! I think the middle one is the Kaskalot which is the largest wooden vessel still sailing apparently.



Now here's an interesting flag for you Americans! They were filming a dockside scene for the 2006 film Amazing Grace about William Wilberforce who spent his life stopping the transatlantic slave trade.

So where did that flag come from?



Gareth

the only old big sail ship ive been on is the USS Constitution in Boston. i love ok sailing ships and wish i had one (preferably the on from the end of the goonies) thanks for the pictures

-dan-

Thank you gents for beautiful pictures. There is something great in those old sailing ships. They tell about times when seafaring wasn't a play but hard work.
Here's few pics taken from Turku during Tall Ships Race.