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Better drowned than duffers. Your favorite shiptoasting antifascist and environmentalist. Thirties.

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Cavalino at the 2026 Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

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“In a world in which we are used to traveling at truly high speed, why is it so exciting to go 8 knots in a 35-foot schooner? Maybe it’s because it’s nearly double her average speed. Maybe it’s because if you sit to leeward you’re really close to that stream of bubbles hissing down the side and can sense the power transferred from wind force to forward motion by a complex array of wooden construction, spars, cordage, and sails- Motion that raises a beautifully curved quarterwave right at your shoulder and sends it out across the water to make known a vessel’s passing.”

— WoodenBoat No. 58, p 82

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Have you ever seen the Australian Cape Class lighthouse tenders? Their names are MV Cape Don, Cape Moreton, and Cape Pillar! Cape Don still exists as a volunteer run museum ship :)

I can’t remember all of them but one of their predecessors (a steamer) was Cape Otway!

I haven't! I'll take a look, but if you have some favorite pics you want to see on the dash, drop them in the submissions!

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One of these boats is a classic and one is technically not, and I kinda love that.

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'Digger' the ship's cat of HMAS Toowoomba. c. 1942

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Wizard scooting along to a at first place finish at Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

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Chiclet - the mascot of the Mary A. Whalen (1938) aboard the Sloop Clearwater (1969)

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any ship can be problematic because I have the heart and soul of a depraved pervert

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Elissa left drydock yesterday and made it back to her slip. The two tug boats helped get us get from dry dock back to Elissa's dock, but the crew manually got her from the end of the dock back into the slip.

Fun fact: Elissa is in the middle of getting a brand new diesel engine, the old one has been removed but the new one hasn't been installed yet so she doesn't have an engine right now. Her first diesel engine was installed in 1918.

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A New England looking background concept drawing. Very rough.

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Tall Ship festival, featuring Ernestina Morrissey, Pride of Baltimore 2, Elissa, and Nao Trinidad, Part 1

Galveston, Texas, 2023

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Cavallino at Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

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happy poisson d’avril reblog to poisson your friends

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I have never related to an article headline so much.

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[ltwilliammowett]

The fleet messenger, by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)

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Sending love on trans day of visibility to transgender mariners, especially transgender mariners of color. Whether you feel hyper-visible or invisible. Whether you are closeted or out or stealth or a mixture of those things or something else. I love you.