Anyone like big old ships?

[JacksonAUS]

Well I do. I've moved into my new house out in the country side and found out that recent storms have uncovered a lot of shipwrecks in the area. The wrecks are very visible while snorkelling and things like the frameworks and masts are almost intact, which is very impressive for ships that are over 150 years old. I believe that the ships were among Brigs, Schooners and Barques.

If you want to read a little bit more, take a look at http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2005/02/16/1108500110169.html. I hope you find it interesting. I'm waiting for another calm day so that I can snorkel over them again and take a closer look.

 

[Braecrest]

Actually Jackson, I love tall ships, I graduate this June with a 3rd Mate's Merchant Mariner License, a QMED endoursement, and a Tall Ship certification, I have a job lined up to be the Third Officer aboard the barkentine S/V Gazela. she sails out of Philadelphia and does alot of school groups and special interest events. But the best part, is she is fast...

 

[LooserLu]

Hi Jackson,
the beach you now go to sail at and dive in looks very nice. Surely you can start Laser-sailing with a beach-start.
If I would live in such a place, it could be that I would complete forget that I probably have to go to work ...
I hope you dive careful and do not meet too much of the little-blue-ring-octopuses, jellyfishes and waterspiders.

Here are 2 interesting websites about ships for trading from Germany that sailed at our coasts here several hundreds of years ago. Some got lost and are found in the end of the last century. They have been restaurated and in now in museums for historical-ships. You can translate the websites with f.e. www.systransoft.com. The Kogge is also a kind of one-design-sailingboat

Link to the original Kogge Ship of the City Bremen (“Ubena“)
http://www.dsm.de/MA/kogge.htm

Link to the replika-Kogge of the City Kiel
http://www.hansekogge.de/

Here is a general link to wreeks at the coast of the Eastsea, that is maybe interesting for you:
http://www.abc.se/~m10354/mar/wracks.htm



THE German tall-ship is of course the Gorch-Fock (II). She is a Barkentine and the School-ship of the German Navy. She is very fast tall-ship, that won a lot of cross-Atlantic-Ocean-tall-ship-competitions.
Several years ago, when I lived in Kiel, I often saw this tall-ship. The home-harbour is the Tirpitz-Navy-Harbour at the Bay of Kiel, which was only 200 meters away from my office in the 1972-Kiel-Olympic-Skyscraper.
From that days, I have some photos that I made during the week of the big Kiel-sailing-competitions (http://www.kielerwoche.de). The last day of this week there is always a tall-ship-race with a lot of old tall-ships of several countries. The Gorch-Fock-II has several sister-ships. The Sarges-II, the Navy-School-ship from Portugal, is one of them.
In the evening before the tall-ship-race started, she had a rest behind the Gorch-Fock-II at the same quay in the Tirpitz-Harbour (see the 2 photos at this thread). They look like twin-sisters, I think. The former Gorch-Fock-I [that the Russians took aft the 2nd Worldwar and named her „Towaritsch (=“Fellow“/“Friend“)] is now back in Germany (in Stralsund-Harbour and waits for restoration) and looks exactly like the both younger ships. So, they also belong to a kind of one-design-ships, I guess.
Here is general link to a tall-ship website, that is maybe interesting for you:
http://www.tallship-fan.de/index.htm

“Jedi of the Darkside”-Jackson, have always nice time at your new sailing-area &
Cheers
Ludwig