Tall Sailing Ship
A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.
History
Traditional rigging may include square rigs and gaff rigs, with separate topmasts and topsails. It is generally more complex than modern rigging, which utilizes newer materials such as aluminum and steel to construct taller, lightweight masts with fewer, more versatile sails. Most smaller, modern vessels use Bermuda rig. Though it did not become popular elsewhere until the twentieth century, this rig was developed in Bermuda in the seventeenth century, and had historically been used on its small ships, the Bermuda sloops.
The term tall ship has come into widespread use in the mid-20th century with the advent of The Tall Ships' Races, and was not generally used in the era when such ships were the norm. The term's popularity may have stemmed from its use in a well-known nautical poem by English Poet Laureate John Masefield entitled Sea Fever , first published in 1900.
While Sail Training International (STI) has extended the definition of tall ship for the purpose of its races to embrace any sailing vessel with more than 30 ft. (9.14 m) waterline length and on which at least half the people on board are aged 15 to 25, this definition can include many modern sailing yachts, so for the purposes of this article, tall ship will refer to those vessels rated as class "A" only.
International Sail Training Association, Class A Tall Ships
In alphabetical order (sortable). International Sail Training Association classifies its A Class as "all square-rigged vessels and all other vessels over 40 metres (131 ft) length overall (LOA)". By LOA they mean length excluding bowsprit and aft spar.
Also see list of tall ships for other tall ships, or List of large sailing vessels for a list that includes other sailing vessel types.
Earlier description of classes
An older definition of class "A" by International Sail Training Association was "all square-rigged vessels over 120' (36.6m) length overall (LOA). Fore and aft rigged vessels of 160' (48.8m) (LOA) and over". By LOA they meant length excluding bowsprit and aft spar.
Class "B" or above was Fore and aft rigged vessels between 100 to 160 feet in length, and all square rigged vessels.
See also a list of class "A" ships with lengths including bowsprit.
Gallery
See also
- American Sail Training Association
- Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race
- Jubilee Sailing Trust
- List of tall ships
- List of large sailing vessels
- Sail training
- Tall Ships Challenge
- Tall Ship Chronicles
- The Tall Ships' Races
- Tall Ships Youth Trust
- Operation Sail
References
- ^ Racing & Sailing Rules and Special Regulations , Sail Training International, 2008 edition, p. 2 , http://www.sailtraininginternational.org/uploads/images/1233149882328_0.6089951864523053.pdf
- ^ National Institute for Sea Training (NIST)
- ^ National Institute for Sea Training (NIST)
Further reading
- American Sail Training Association; Sail Tall Ships! (American Sail Training Association; 16th edition, 2005 ISBN 0-9636483-9-X)
- Thad Koza; Tall Ships: A Fleet for the 21st Century (Tide-Mark Press; 3rd edition, 2002; ISBN 1-55949-739-4)
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