Featured Books
True Colours by Alaric Bond
Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard by Dunlop & Shaw
Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships by W. H. Bunting
His Majesty's Ship by Alaric Bond
Galveston's the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas by Kurt Voss
My River Chronicles - Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong
The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O'Brian by by Geoff Hunt and Brian Lavery
James Nelson's George Washington's Secret Navy
Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas Truxes
Deadly Shoals, a Wiki Coffin Mystery by Joan Druett
Star Crossedby Linda Collison
The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)
The Jackass Frigate byAlaric Bond
Steady As She Goesby John Molloy
Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865
Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Schooner Amistad Returns to Mystic for Repairs after Rigging Failure
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 The Amistad was scheduled to participate in the 2010 Great Lakes United Tall Ships Challenge but has withdrawn due to the extent of the repairs required.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?
Intriguing 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.
Moving the Morgan
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.
