A friend who was a U.S. Navy officer at the time thought they needed a
contrast to the tall ships in the 1976 U.S. bicentennial - he proposed
having a bunch of submarines enter Boston Harbor, and calling them the
'squat ships'.
At 06:32 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote:
A couple of the tall ships attending the Tall Ships race further up the coast at Newcastle dropped into Whitby.
Two Dutch ships , the classic tall ship "Europa" and the modern
"Eendracht", stayed for a couple of days.
A few days later the "Grand Turk" and the British sail training brig "TS Royalist" dropped in too.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Ships-and-Boats
Both the harbour pilot and the Lifeboat service had quite some difficulty getting them in through the narrow harbour entrance and the swing bridge.
Although the sea looks reasonably calm there is not only nearly always a 5 to 6 meter wave between the pier ends but also both outer approaches have hidden rock ridges called "scaurs", which were the end of many a good ship.
These are digitral, there's more to come when the slides are developed.
Comments welcome. Douglas
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