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New! - 02/06/08 - Glory of the Seas

Glory of the Seas Model

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Maritime Book Review - Posted 7/16/07

bluewaterpatriots.html

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Maritime Book Review

Just Released - December 2006

Go to Review of The Last Schoonerman

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Tall Ships Parade - San Francisco 2005

Photographs by Steve Priske

Tall Ships Parade S. F. 2005

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New - 3/01/08

Jenny Lind Figurehead Auctioned at Sotheby's.

Clipper Ship Nightingale

Jenny Lind Figurehead

Clipper Ship Nightingale

Maritime Book Review

By Don Ross

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Maritime Book Review

By Don Ross

Go to Book Review

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Pride of Baltimore II Dismasting Story

www.ourprideadventures.blogspot.com

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Visit our Tradewinds Pages!

* ECS - For optimum viewing in Internet Explorer chose a reduced font size of 75% from the View Menu. These pages look fine in Netscape Navigator when viewed on a Macintosh. Chose a reduced font size when viewing in Netscape Navigator on a PC.

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ECS - 3/25/04 - The clipper ship Stad Amsterdam arrived last Saturday, March 20th for a week long visit to the South Street Seaport. I went down to NYC on March 24th to go aboard for a tour. What a wonderful ship! I took a lot of pictures and should be able to post a new Web page just as soon as the prints are developed. The picture here is of the Stad Amsterdam departing the South Street Seaport after the Tall Ships 2001 festivites, and was taken by Paul Brodtkorb, whom I met aboard the Stad Amsterdam, and was taken that summer at a more innocent time, before 9/11.

ECS - 3/30/04 - The Clipper Stad Amsterdam page is now up!

The South Street Seaport is a great place to visit. You can all surf into the South Street Seaport Museum Web site to take a look at all the activities that are going on. Volunteers are needed! Get involved.

www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org

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Snow Squall

Ship Model Page Five

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Tradewinds of the British Isles

Tradewinds of the British Isles

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Tradewinds of the West

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Maine Tradewinds Page

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Hudson River Valley

Tradewinds Page

Tradewinds Page 2

Catskills Tradewinds Page

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Tradewinds Around the World

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Maritime News Page

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11/27/2001 - ECS - The Great American II, a 53-foot trimaran, arrived at the Royal Yacht Club in Melbourne, Australia with a record setting 15,000-mile voyage of 68-days/10-hours/7-minutes/52-seconds and broke the New York to Melbourne sailing record of 69-days/14-hours set by the Mandarin over the winter of 1855-56 around the time of the Australian Gold Rush. Hats off to sailors Rich Wilson and Bill Biewenga. Everyone can surf on into the www.sitesalive.com Web site and go to the Press Room link for further details.

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ECS - Visit our Ship Model Page to learn more about the model of the clipper ship Raven that was inspired by our web site and recently built by master model shipbuilder Steve Priske.

4/22/2003 - ECS - Visit our Ship Model Page Two to see the model of the clipper ship Comet along with some other models.

5/22/2003 - ECS - New page up! Check this out!

Polynesian and Hawaiian Catamarans

Ship Model Page Three

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See our Editorial Page for more about:

Project Sea Witch

www.seawitchrediviva.com

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Winter 2006

Era of the Clipper Ships T-shirt Sale

Go to the Ship's Store Page

Buy a T-shirt!

Now!!!

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S. O. S.

Support Our Site!

2/19/05 - ECS - We put this new page up on our Web site to let everybody know just how they can support us from now on.

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Letter to 110th Congress

Posted January11, 2007

Go to Link

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Table of Contents

The Era of the Clipper Ships

The Clipper Ship Saga

of the Seven Seas

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Star of India and Californian

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We really need for all the people who give a damn about this Web site to come through for us now and order a book copy "Special Edition" of The Era of the Clipper Ships.

Support Our Site / Book Order Form

Available Now!

Take a look at the book!

Minnehaha Press

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Minnehaha Press

Buy This Book

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Ship's Log & Poem about the tea clipper Oriental surface

God speed the noble Oriental,

Across the mighty deep,

And give the wings to traverse it

A thousand times again.

And mayest thou, As thou headest the sea,

Till thy long wanderings cease.

Be like the Patriarchal dove,

The messenger of Peace.

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Go to the stories on our Letterbag Page

The clipper ship Flying Cloud was the inspiration for Old Spice bottles!

Two paintings of the clipper ship Challenge surface.

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Gardner McKay - 1932 - 2001

This Web site is dedicated to the memory of Gardner McKay, a great great grandson of Donald McKay.

Go to story

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. . ."beyond the ocean mists". . .

"I never yet built a vessel that came up to my own ideal. I saw something in each ship which I desired to improve upon." ~ Donald McKay

ECS - The search for perfection under sail never really ended with Donald McKay and so it is with us. Some members of the McKay Family are now speaking out about the world of clipper ship sailing possibilities that are out there just beyond the ocean mists.

Go to the McKay Clan Page

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Massachusetts Tradewinds Page

Wide-awake Down-Easters
No-mistake Down-Easters
Old Massachusetts will carry the day!

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Dear Friends, come and sing up a storm: Free Maritime Concert Sunday, March 11, 2007 at the Performing Arts Center, Veterans Middle School, Marblehead, Massachusetts at 2 P. See Abbot Library Link.

Kent Allyn, keyboards and guitar, Linnea Coffin backup vocals. Hope to see you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the best,
David.

www.davidcoffin.com
Performance Schedule/Recordings
Director of Education:
Boston Early Music Festival
www.bemf.org

David Coffin

The Boston History Collaborative sponsored a special afternoon of events on Monday, June 17, 2002 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the launching of the Sovereign of the Seas. They had a special showing of their "Boston by Sea" show on the Mass Bay Lines, speeches and festivities in Piers Park, East Boston. A tour of the McKay family house on "Eagle Hill," White Street, also took place. Three branches of the extended family of Donald McKay were in attendance. ECS coverage of this event is on this special link.

Go to: Sovereign of the Seas 150th Anniversary

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Sovereign of the Seas Model