One of the most beautiful and most interesting tall ship sailing today, at least to my eye, is the three-masted barquentine Pelican. The Pelican is 148ft long overall, square rigged on the main mast but fore and aft rigged on the fore mast and mizzen, a modern hybrid between a traditional square rig and the mixed square and fore and aft rig of the Barbary coast Xebecs.
The Pelican is also now actively for sale with an asking price of £2,450,000.
Weymouth’s Tall Ship is yours for £2.45m
Trustees of the Adventure Under Sail Limited (AUSL) charity say it is ‘business as usual’ and their youth training voyages will remain unaffected while a buyer is sought.
Bookings are being taken as normal and fundraising is under way to assist youngsters with bursaries.
The action-packed programme for the TS Pelican includes participating in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on June 3, the International Tall Ships Races throughout July and August and a winter programme in the Caribbean.
The ship first went on open market sale in 2009 for an asking price of £4million.
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The town of Atlantic Beach is located in the heart of Myrtle Beach South Carolina. The town is presently seeking a replica of a slave ship as a museum and main attraction. If approve the Pelican would be a training ship, and be retrofitted with three funnels and living quarters for 200 slaves in the bottom decks. The town is currently incorporated, black owned and black operated and are slowly losing its land and culture.