Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 1996/09

From: Dick Walters <waltersd@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Introductions
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 23:36:42 -0400

Stephen R. Lasky wrote:
>
> Hi, I hope that this will get to the Tall Ships List. I have been having a
> bit of trouble getting through.
>
> I've been lurking on this list for a couple of weeks now to see what
> kind of things are being discussed. As an introduction, I am an
> ex-molecular biologist who lived aboard a 26 ft folkboat while I was a grad
> student at the University of California at Santa Barbara. While that's
> hardly a Tall Ship, I have always been interested in sailing and great
> sailing ships. Recently I have been sailing a 40 ft Valiant in the
> Narragansett Bay and beyond although I fear that that arrangement has come
> to an end. (We will probably publish an account of our terminal voyage to
> Maine on the Valiant in a little e-zine we are doing at
> http://SoftAdventure.com . It'll probably be out by the end of the first
> week in September.)
>
> My only personal experience on a traditional sailing vessel came when I was
> a cadet at Culver military academy back in the early 60's. The academy had
> a square rigged vessel called the "Fowler" (I believe that was the
> spelling) that was used to impress the parents on weekends. I was a
> foretopman. I was wondering if anyone on this list had heard of this ship
> and knew any of the specs on it or whether it is still afloat?
>
> Some of you may also be interested in another one of our sites at
> http://BurningElectrons.com/TallShips/ that describes the 1997 calendar and
> coffee table book about to be published by Thad Koza on the current Tall
> Ships Fleet.
>
> TIA
>
> SRLasky
>
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Tall tales, perhaps, but not tall ships.

Boy, is he lost.

Dick W