I would love to be in Boston this week to see the Tall Ships. Lots of great pictures here.This is the Dutch barque Europa with every last scrap of canvas aloft. Notice the studding sails (pronounced stuns'ls) rigged out to port and starboard to catch even the slightest zephyr.
By the way, if you love tall ships and tales of the sea as I do then you will positively swoon over Patrick O'Brian's classic Aubrey-Maturin novels.
This series of over twenty historical novels is set aboard ship in the age of Nelson and forms an essential chunk of the historical novel canon.
The acclaimed Russel Crowe film Master & Commander - The Far Side of the World is based on the first and tenth books in the series.
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