Tall Ships – Is there a brig in this vessel?

A beautiful day gone wrong when the kids had an absolute shit fit about not getting a soda on board our harbor cruise of the Tall Ships in Boston this weekend. The tour guide was very entertaining, and he kept quizzing us on history, boats, sailing, etc., and would reward the first correct answer with a free soda. (Where are the highest tides in the world?  Anyone?  Somebody shouted out “The Bay of Fundy”, “Correct”, said the guide, “that’s a free soda for you, my friend”.) My number one son was getting very frustrated that others were ‘winning’ free sodas, and scolded me and my husband for not knowing the answers and letting him know. “You’re welcome” I said, “for the wonderful afternoon we’re having”. Number two son joined in on the pissing and moaning for the remainder. It was a long car ride home for all.

(This is a photo of the steel-hulled Romanian vessel ‘Mircea’, originally built to train the Romanian navy. It’s 328 feet long, and was overhauled in 2002, making it one of the most modern ships in her class)

Tall Ships in Boston – The Eagle

 

This is the Eagle, at the Charlestown Navy Yard.  The Eagle was originally a German training vessel for the German Navy in World War II (under the name Horst Wessel), but was taken as a war prize in 1946 (by us), and commissioned the ‘Eagle’. It is the only active sailing vessel in U.S. military service.

Tall Ships in Boston – and it wasn’t raining!

On an unusually sunny Saturday, we took the kids into Boston to see the Tall Ships; we took a boat from the Cambridgeside Galleria into the harbor.  Here’s the Russian vessel Kruzenshtern (second largest ship in the world), docked at the World Trade Center.