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Default Real Tall Ship Sailing

We don't know that we get it easy on a tall ship now-a-days. I'm sure
some of you have seen the film by Irving Johnson taken on board the
Peking as she round the Horn in 1929.

http://oldfilm.org/store/index.php?m...roducts_id=136

http://tinyurl.com/3ahdbqx

But Alan Villiers also took footage on the board the tall ships in the
early 1930s.

See:

http://kakopa.com/geo/Horn/horn01.htm - great read with photos

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...+villiers&aq=f - great
viewing

And their always Dana's "Two Years before the Mast"

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4277 - free

http://www.nwschooner.org/books/mast.pdf - free

Chris B.