And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn 1928 - Captain Irving
The Peking. She was at the (unworthy of her) South Street Seaport for years. Johnson and wife ran sailing schools, and not namby-pamby ones. they threw in with a twenty year old Sterling Hayden (skipper) on a delivery Boston - Florida of a square rigged vessel.
Interesting, not for the faint at heart
ReplyDeleteI have a vhs of this- a few viewings lent me to think it's always life threatening, varying only by degree.
DeleteThe Peking. She was at the (unworthy of her) South Street Seaport for years. Johnson and wife ran sailing schools, and not namby-pamby ones. they threw in with a twenty year old Sterling Hayden (skipper) on a delivery Boston - Florida of a square rigged vessel.
ReplyDeletea friend was acquainted with them.
That was filmed when men were men.
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