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The four-masted barque Moshulu. Moshulu was made famous by the books of Eric Newby.At the age of 18 he was apprenticed aboard the Moshulu, joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia with a load of ballast stone in 82 days, a good passage for a windjammer.
The ship was refitted again as a cruising yacht for the Caribbean under the name SV Mandalay (also Mandalay of Tortola) [2] with a sail area of > 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2). [3] The ship was operated by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises from 1982 until the operator went out of business in 2008. [ 20 ]
Windjammer Barefoot Cruises was a leisure cruise line based in Miami Beach, Florida. [1] Founded in 1947 by Michael Burke , the company scheduled one and two week cruises in the Caribbean and Central America, using a fleet of sailing tall ships .
Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships.
Yankee Clipper is a three masted sailing cruise ship that served for Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. She was originally built in Kiel, Germany as the Cressida, an armor plated private yacht. She was a prize in World War II. She was acquired by the Vanderbilts and was renamed Pioneer. In 1965, the ship was acquired by Windjammer Barefoot cruises.
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea calls windjammer "a non-nautical name by which square-rigged sailing ships are sometimes known". [6] The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military calls windjammer "a merchant sailing ship". [7] The following languages have adopted "windjammer" as a loanword from English in reference to sailing ...
Delta Air Lines is debuting a brand-new look this fall, with sleek new cabin interiors on its narrowbody Boeing 757 aircraft that will eventually be applied across the carrier’s fleet.