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[cappy]

to watch hard times and hard men .....google 4MASTED BARQUE ROUNDING CAPE HORN 1928 ...........R683532

[j.sabourn]

There ain’t no pictures there Cappy . So just have to imagine. But is not hard to do for seamen. For all My time at sea I think the most I ever sailed with those on board was about 70+ souls and that was on seismic vessels where a lot were shore persons .The least I sailed with were 8. I found the less crew there were on board , which I don’t condone by any means , but the more reliant they were on each other to make up the missing factor. There was no standing on ceremony you worked as one mind to reach the maximum the ship was capable for doing. Anyone who could not live up to the standard that was expected left of their own accord.There were seamen and there were seamen , a lot of them that had salt water for blood died early. JS.

Sorry Marian wrote that before you put the pictures up. Think Cappys getting a bit forgetful, although bet he still remembers where all the pubs are . JS

[cappy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzBDhilDL0

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tallships/c...barque_around/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUhKBZb7A7c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwkaohCEJmQ

Four choices under the same Google heading with different durations. First one being cappy's reference I think

Thanks marion that makes it easier to follow......regards cappy

[Brenda Shackleton]

Thank you
That was fabulous. My grandfather was in sail - 4 Masted Barques around Cape Horn to Vancouver and inside Passage. Thistlebank & Genclover
What a hard life.
Brenda

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Great insight to what my brother went through on the Pamir rounding Cape Horn. Though I have the book, "Last Time Around the Cape Horn." About the Pamir's last trip there, I remain puzzled why I never talked to him about it when I visited him in NZ.
Des

[Robert M Hughes]

Brilliant!!