Bouler added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

Since you hang out here and post your excellent pictures - from
what you reposted for me! - maybe you could tell me what the main
interest (s) and purpose(s) of this news group are. What I mean
is that by its name, "tall-ships", I would think first of
3-masted sailing vessels as we talked about earlier. Or, at least
sailing boats and ships of any size, type, or purpose. But, it
appears from the short time I've been looking in here that about
any kind of boat or ship is OK.

Since I have no collection of my own to share with readers here,
my question is mainly curiosity. Thanks.

The main interest was postin tallships, 2, 3 or more masts.
When we run out of pictures of tallships we decided everybody
could post every ship they found interesting.
So you see here also a lot of tall ships in stead of tallships.
Tugs, sailingvessels tankers, old Dutch flatbottoms and other
pictures are allowed because we all love the sea.

OK, that's what I thought. I'd never considered looking for this NG so
I think I'll just lurk for awhile and absorb the many nice pictures
posted here. Thanks for summarizing the origins and evolution of "tall-
ships" for me.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"And, that's all I'm going to say about that" - Forrest Gump