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River on July 21, 2007 - 4:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Expat, excellent post! The Falls of Clyde is an interesting history of early oil and wheat transport by sail. Sounds as if the rerigging to gaff was as done for reregistry to US as for practical reasons. I once owned the book 'Coasting Captain' by Henry Tawes. The book was written from Captain Tawes logs and spans his career from the 1870s to the 1920s. Captain Tawes owned and captained a large coasting schooner between the islands and the east and southern coasts of the US. Tawes loaded all sorts of cargo from molasses and rum to lumber and guano. Its a fascinating book if you can locate it in a nearby library. I believe that we will once again see cargo and passanger trade under sail. After all, the Egypians were shipping wheat under sail near the beginning of recorded history and they didnt need oil.

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CEOJr1963 on July 21, 2007 - 9:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

http://www.1000daysatsea.blogspot.com

These two people are showing us what can be done with a Gaff Rig Schooner That the captian built with other members of his family 30 years ago.

Anyone building the Viking longboats will get good boats for the coast runnings that they did.

Sailing the sport of the rich, is some of the best survivalable learning that can be taught the kids and college aged students of present day.

My dad knows a lot of roping from his days truck driving, that were taught to him by sailors in the family.

Mountain climbing teachs some of those roping skills.

There are so many methods that most people do not think of that can keep us from falling into total chaos. We just don't think about them in our modern world because we have been so used to picking up the cell phone to order a pizza.

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Don Sailorman on July 21, 2007 - 9:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

You don't have to be rich to learn to sail. For example, I'm a volunteer instructor with SCUM (Sailing Club at the University of Minnesota) where for a $200 annual membership you can get all the sailing lessons you want. (UM student fee is $150) I learned to sail with the Cal Sailing Club in Berkeley, California, and their fees are even lower.

If you can sail and can fix sailboats you then have two very valuable skills. Also, sailors generally are fun and mellow people (except for racing fanatics). Sailing is a lifetime sport--and I know of no activity that is better for building justified self-respect.

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