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Tallship Sailing Adventures and ocean passages
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With her upswept bow and full sails the R Tucker Thompson plowing boldly through the seas looks for all the world like she has just sailed in from the nineteenth century.
She is a Tall Ship. The romantic definition of Tall Ship: "A sailing ship whose sails can be seen over the horizon before you see the ship". As she draws near, her wind filled sails creates a feeling of majesty, awe and wonderment.
The Tucker is in fact a product of the last quarter of the twentieth century. She was built in a land noted for tough uncompromising sailors. A land with a tradition of innovation, where the population has an economy based on what the soil can produce. Excellent craftsmen with tools and material at hand built the Tucker. Many times they were forced to use the building techniques of earlier centuries. The final product is a safe, wonderful, and beautiful ship steeped, in rugged tradition.
The Tucker is built to sail. She is a gaff rigged, square tops'l schooner. Gaff rigged means that her mainsail has four sides; square tops'l refers to the two square topsails. Schooner, in this case, means that of her two masts, the forward mast is shorter than the aft. She was designed according to the traditions of a North American Halibut schooner by a transplanted Californian, R Tucker Thompson. Unfortunately, six months after laying her keel, Mr. Thompson died.
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