Parade of Sail

[xenith]

These are a sneak peak, and I'm not sure if there's much point to posting these. My first thought on looking at them is "I need a zoom lens", my second thought is "It really loses something when reduced to a photo". Because there is something very cool about waiting for the first masts and sails to appear, and then trying to pick out the individual ships from within the mass. And to think now that long ago, that harbour would have been full of such masts, although more on the size of the James Craig and larger.

If you do get a chance to watch a gathering of tall ships sail in, take it, even if it's just a handful like here. It is very cool :)



Unfortunately, the best I can offer today is a handful of small, greyish photos but at least there was some wind this year. I did link to the bigger photos for a couple of them.





Young Endeavour in full sail out the front. Just to the left but hiding behind a smaller craft, is One and All. Further to the left--one dark, one light-- are Lady Nelson and Windward Bound. I wonder if they were racing each other (both Hobart-based, so a bit competitive). Big black one on the right is James Craig and further to the right is Enterprize.



There's One and All out the front.


The old lady James Craig. She's a century older than any other ship out there.

Comments

[sue-bursztynski.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Why don't we ever get this sort of thing turning up in Melbourne? Well, not that I remember, anyway.

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know Melbourne gets the occasional visitor and Enterprize is based there, but, looking at it from a visitor's perspective, there isn't the same focus on the harbour and waterfront that you get in Hobart and Sydney. That might be partly a matter of proximity though.