Tall Ships Race 2008

Tom Dunlap

Tom Dunlap

Here from the beginning
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Retired in Minneapolis
The race has started!

Make sail...
Run the sheets home...
Sail on a bowline...

The folks in UK, Norway and northern Europe may be able to see these ships.

http://www.tallshipsracesbergen.no/home_eng.html

Has anyone ever spent time on a tall ship under sail?

Mahk Adams and I got to climb to the top cross trees of the USS Constellation in Baltimore harbor, but that doesn't count, the Constellation is tied securely to the pier.
 
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Tom, does a canoe on the Guadalupe count?

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A square rigged mast would work well Bill
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There is a cruise line called windjammer cruises. All of their ships are tall ships. I got to sail around the caribbean on one when I was little. It was a lot of fun but smaller sail boats are a lot more fun. I think.
 
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It was a lot of fun but smaller sail boats are a lot more fun. I think.

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I just got a 20 foot Highlander sailboat....the little boats are where it's at!



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It was a lot of fun but smaller sail boats are a lot more fun. I think.

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I just got a 20 foot Highlander sailboat....the little boats are where it's at!



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Congrats on the boat! If you leave right now you might make it in time for the Newport Folk Festival. Just toss an anchor and listen to tunes all day for free.
 
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Congrats on the boat! If you leave right now you might make it in time for the Newport Folk Festival. Just toss an anchor and listen to tunes all day for free.

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Thanks, I would love to throw it on a trailer and bring it up there, but I am a novice, and our boat is in need of repair before I take it on any trip. Our first week of having the boat in the water, we lost the centerboard (now down about 80 feet in Lake Norman), and spent about $400 in unexpected provisions.

Oh well, it's either a boat or a crippling drug addiction - either one is going to make you go broke. I choose the sailboat!

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