Schooner Amistad Returns to Mystic for Repairs after Rigging Failure

May 28, 2010 · Filed Under Current, Lore of the Sea, Rigging, Ships · 2 Comments 

After suffering what was described as “serious rigging failure” in heavy seas off the Florida coast last week, the schooner Amistad has returned to Mystic, CT for repairs.   She is expected to “be there for some time.”  The Amistad was built at Mystic Seaport between 1998 and 2000.   The Amistad was scheduled to participate in the 2010 Great Lakes United Tall Ships Challenge but has withdrawn due to the extent of the repairs required.     The Amistad will be replaced in the event by the Dutch barque Europa.

Tall Ship Amistad cancels Great Lakes tour, replaced by Europa at Tall Ship Celebration


Charles W. Morgan to Sail Again?

September 22, 2009 · Filed Under Current, Lore of the Sea, Ships · Comment 

charles_w_morganIntriguing news about Charles W. Morgan, the last American sailing whale ship.  From Boston.com

Mystic Seaport officials are now considering whether to make the ship seaworthy again so that it can tour New England’s coastline in the summer of 2012, with stops in New London, Newport, R.I., Provincetown, Mass., and New Bedford, Mass. The Morgan is undergoing a $6 million restoration at the museum, which has a working shipyard. Putting air in the sails would cost an additional $2 million. The idea has been tossed around for at least a decade, but last May, White and other officials started giving it serious consideration.

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Moving the Morgan

October 25, 2008 · Filed Under Current, Ships · Comment 

From TheDay.com. A crowd lined the waterfront of the Mystic Seaport H.B. DuPont Preservation Shipyard as the whale ship Charles W. Morgan arrived from her permanent berth at Chub’s Wharf to the shipyard Monday. Oct. 20, 2008, in preparation for the next stage in the restoration of the 1841 vessel. The Morgan, the oldest wooden whaling ship built in the United States still afloat, is one of four floating National Historic Landmarks at the seaport and will be hauled out of the water the beginning of November for a three-year restoration.

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