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Archive for September, 2006

TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE – Green Bay Tall Ships Festival video

Posted by alexsailor on September 29, 2006

Here’s a fun video from this summer’s stop in Green Bay. Thanks to festival attendee Bruce Lindsay for sharing it with us. 

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The Addiction

Posted by meredith87 on September 6, 2006

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I have been back home for just over a week now, and am literally experiencing sailing withdrawal! I have decided to recount my adventures on board…you guessed it…U.S. Brig Niagara, after we left Chicago. Oh, where to begin! I stayed on board until the 26th of August, where we sailed from Chicago to Lorain, OH with stops in St.Ignace in the “UP”, Port Huron, and finally Lorain

I am a little bit superstitious, only with things pertaining to Irish tradition naturally…but the first week after we left Chicago was something for the history books! We had been delayed in Chicago for almost 2 days due to a bad weather front, and on Friday Senior Captain Walter Rybka called an all hands muster to explain our ‘plan of attack’ so to speak. The plan was to leave that day (a Friday), but one of our AB’s experienced an injury moments beforehand and was on his way to the emergency clinic. Read the rest of this entry »

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