Wednesday, March 24, 2010

VELA SUD AMERICA fleet -- Cape Horn
















Argentina's LIBERTAD in the right foreground;  4-masted ESMERALDA from Chile on the left, with EUROPA and GLORIA behind her..

Photo-credit to kactusfoto, Chile.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

CHARLES MORGAN--restoration, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT


































                              Keel timbers, surprisingly intact, when uncovered
                                    (above).



Hull interior.

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http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=FCF87004-65B8-D398-72F3FBDB1166241C