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.
Pretty sure it's a gaff rig cutter (a type of sloop as Aesop said). Length to me looks to be about 80 to 100 feet. The sailing rig throws it off scale so it is hard to judge.
She's mighty pretty....
ReplyDeleteCrewing one of this is a fantasy bucketlister for me
ReplyDeleteNeeds cannon.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know the size of this beautiful boat? Schooner, ketch, yawl?
ReplyDeleteIt's a sloop.
DeleteThe others you mentioned are all two-masted.
Eyeball math says apart from the bowsprit, it looks to be around 45'-50' at the waterline.
Pretty sure it's a gaff rig cutter (a type of sloop as Aesop said). Length to me looks to be about 80 to 100 feet. The sailing rig throws it off scale so it is hard to judge.
DeleteThanks Aesop and company. Appreciate that input. I will have to read-up on my sailing vessel identification.
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