From The Miami Hereld.com:
Three tall ships tracing part of Jamestown journey
Comment: Anyone here ever see the replica of the Golden Hind? I have and it's not what anyone would take for a very large vessel. She's an example of a rqace built galleon which is actually smaller then some modern yard tugboats. The replicas that are the subject of this story are even smaller. It says quite a lot about the courage of the seamen of 400 years ago that they were willing to go to sea in these craft.
Three tall ships tracing part of Jamestown journey
Story at http://www.miamiherald.com/126/story/95240.htmlquote:
JAMESTOWN, Va. -- ``Let's lay aloft and loose all sails!''
This sends Susan Harris clambering up the rigging that stretches like a giant spiderweb from the deck almost to the top of the ship's 72-foot mast.
Hand over sneaker she goes to the yardarm, then inches oh-so-carefully sideways until she is standing on a thin rope five stories above the James River. Cord by cord, Harris loosens the mainsail until the great white sheet bellies out with the breeze.
Off it goes, the Godspeed, borne by the wind into another time, 400 years ago.
''I just love it up there,'' Harris says back on deck. She is no younker, as the young seamen who climbed the rigging were known long ago. At 59, Harris is a new grandmother.
The former ice skating instructor from Williamsburg is one of 60 volunteer sailors who are re-creating the majestic voyage of three tall-masted ships to mark the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English colony in the New World.
Comment: Anyone here ever see the replica of the Golden Hind? I have and it's not what anyone would take for a very large vessel. She's an example of a rqace built galleon which is actually smaller then some modern yard tugboats. The replicas that are the subject of this story are even smaller. It says quite a lot about the courage of the seamen of 400 years ago that they were willing to go to sea in these craft.