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Very welcome to the Sailing Ships WWW site! I hope you will find it interesting and informative. It has been online since 15 October 1996. ... If you have written an article on a matter relevant to the Sailing Ships pages, please consider letting me include it on this site.
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Sailing ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sailing ship is now used to refer to any large wind-powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making t...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ship
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Schooner: - sailing ships with at least 2 masts (foremast and mainmast) with the mainmast being the taller. Word derives from the term "schoon/scoon" meaning to move smoothly and quickly. ( a 3-masted vessel is called a "tern");
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As a 15-year-old German national, Friz went to sea when square-rigged sailing ships ruled the oceans. ... Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships; ; List: $13.95 ~ Our Price: $11.16 ~ You Save: $2.79 (20%); McKay (1810-1880) was a 19th century ship-building genius who brought the American clipper ship and other vessels...
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www.schoonerman.com/book/sship.htm
www.schoonerman.com/book/sship.htm
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Climb aboard one of these majestic sailing ships and set sail to exotic locations. Experience life at sea up close, on vessels ranging in size from 6 passenger Schooners to 300 passenger Tall Ships.
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www.sailingshipadventures.com/
www.sailingshipadventures.com/
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The Navigators - A look at the early history of sailing ships and their use in exploration ... While improvements in ship design had enabled the sailing ships of the 17th & 18th Centuries to travel much faster into the wind, the slower, smaller and 15th century boats were safer.
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www.abc.net.au/navigators/ships/history.htm
www.abc.net.au/navigators/ships/history.htm
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On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with three small Spanish sailing ships, the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa María, on a voyage that eventually led him to America.
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www.evgschool.org/Columbus's%20Sailing%20Ships.htm
www.evgschool.org/Columbus's%20Sailing%20Ships.htm
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Sailing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sailing is the art of controlling a boat with large (usually fabric) foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the win...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing
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