A Ship under Sail or The Phantom Ship, by Theophile Narcisse Chauvel (French, 1831-1910)

Ship's cat in a compass case on board the sail training ship Horst Wessel (1936), later USCG Eagle WIX-327 (1946)

- Le testament d'Orphée by Jean Cocteau, 1960

Brigantine Tres Hombres

Great timelapse of sail handling, which really shows how many people are needed to manually handle these massive sails. The sails of the Götheborg are all handsewn and made out of flax (linnen). They are thick and heavy even when dry; the biggest sail weighs 500 kg.

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

Enthusiastically borrowed from Schooner Bum Memes

Just here giggling at the way those staysails and fisherman’s sail are all luffing.

CREATURE????

just when you think it couldn’t be worse, you have to battle a creature

Every sailor ever: Yeah, man, that’s every day at sea ever, you aren’t special.

my soul feels sick and i wish i knew what to do

You need to go sailing!

hey i have a favor to ask from astronomers, can y'all put little krakens on the edges of maps of the observable universe to denote that we don't know what's past that

The Tres Hombres is the only trans-Atlantic sailing freighter without a motor! She is the flagship of Fairtransport and the sailing ambassador for cleaner sea transport.

And here are some shots of her unloading a sustainably sourced cargo (coffee, possibly cacao, though there's also rum in her hold I think):