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When it comes to remarkable traditions and history, and a collection of boats second to none, the Australian wooden boat festival in Tasmania can’t be beat.
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When it comes to remarkable traditions and history, and a collection of boats second to none, the Australian wooden boat festival in Tasmania can’t be beat.
With 40 ships, five months, six countries and 7,000 nautical miles, you have the ingredients for one heck of a regatta!
On a tall ship voyage to Bermuda from the Islands, the rhythms of the sea replace the tick-tock routine of life ashore.
On a tall ship voyage to Bermuda from the Islands, the rhythms of the sea replace the tick-tock routine of life ashore.
Trepidation. I get antsy in the days just before I go offshore. There’s so much mental preparation. I leave October 2nd for a six week research expedition aboard the SSV Robert C. Seamans, a 134 ft. schooner brigantine operated by Sea Education Association to explore “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”
On a square-rigger voyage across the Atlantic with heirs of the protagonists from the legendary HMS Beagle—Lieutenant Robert FitzRoy and naturalist Charles Darwin—the real and the surreal are barely distinguishable. From our September 2012 issue.
When it comes to remarkable traditions and history, and a collection of boats second to none, the Australian wooden boat festival in Tasmania can’t be beat.
With 40 ships, five months, six countries and 7,000 nautical miles, you have the ingredients for one heck of a regatta!
On a tall ship voyage to Bermuda from the Islands, the rhythms of the sea replace the tick-tock routine of life ashore.
On a tall ship voyage to Bermuda from the Islands, the rhythms of the sea replace the tick-tock routine of life ashore.
Trepidation. I get antsy in the days just before I go offshore. There’s so much mental preparation. I leave October 2nd for a six week research expedition aboard the SSV Robert C. Seamans, a 134 ft. schooner brigantine operated by Sea Education Association to explore “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”
On a square-rigger voyage across the Atlantic with heirs of the protagonists from the legendary HMS Beagle—Lieutenant Robert FitzRoy and naturalist Charles Darwin—the real and the surreal are barely distinguishable. From our September 2012 issue.
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