creativenative1981:

Out of the fog she comes.  The Topsail Schooner Pride Of Baltimore II sailing in tandem with the Schooner Bluenose II in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.

Pride!  Forever reblog.

Oh, hey, Lynx in Chicago.  I wonder if this was the summer that we sailed down the Navy Pier fairway at the end of every sail, made our turn a couple hundred feet off Pride and fired a gun at them.  Four daysails a day, four or five days.  Pride crew wasn’t happy with us.

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sailorgil:

” US Navy Schooner LYNX — Lost at Sea, 1820 “

On 11 January 1820, the schooner Lynx, commanded by Lieutenant J. R. Madison, departed St. Mary’s, Georgia bound for Kingston, Jamaica to continue her service suppressing pirates. She was never heard from again. Despite the schooner, USS Nonsuch’s, search for Lynx, no trace of her or her 50 man crew was ever found.

Confusingly enough, this is not the privateer Lynx that the current Lynx claims to be a representation of.  That ship was launched in 1812 and captured in 1813, renamed the Mosquidobit, and sunk somewhere in the Med, whereas this ship was launched in 1814.  This picture gives a good idea of the rig of a Baltimore Clipper, with running forestays on the main, loose-footed overlapping foresail, and multiple kites on the foremast.

Fun fact for the day.

This year’s Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race again.  Two of my favorites.

Pride, though.  Pride.  This was taken around the Schooner Race this year.  Possibly after we sailed off the dock to the start line.

Pride of Baltimore II. 

This is an interesting sail configuration, mostly because the foretop is still furled and the stays’l looks like it’s sea-stowed.  Maybe they’re about to strike the main, but there aren’t enough people on deck.  She could have been sailing main, fore and stays’l, but she so rarely sails without the foretop.  Weird.

As a sidenote:  look how sharp she braces!  Those yards are almost fucking parallel to the bowsprit.  Ridiculously sharp.

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Lynx, with a reefed main and the port course going up.  Her split courses are such useful sails.

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Ready for the start — as seen by Buford & Camille Rowland aboard the Condor with Terry Briggs.

Oh, man, I’ve been looking for a photo like this since the race.  This is the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race this year.  As you can see, there were very light airs at the start.  We tried putting the entire crew on the leeward rail, but since Pride is big, it didn’t do a whole lot.  So we pulled a shot of chain up on deck, on the leeward side.  And swung the port anchor.  Which you can actually see here.  It was the first of several “What the hell is Pride doing?” moments during the race, I’m sure.

rain-storms:

“Pride of Baltimore II” (1800s-era tall ship) Ludington , Michigan by Michigan Nut on Flickr.

Pride.  I kind of love this boat.

Forever reblog the Pride of Baltimore II.