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After operating for 28 years, Villa Nova closed in 1968 and the building re-opened as the Windjammer until it closed in 1971. The restaurant was founded in early 1972 by Gary Stromberg and Bob Gibson, heads of the PR firm Gibson & Stromberg.
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. Moshulu took 4,875 tons of bagged grain on board in Port Victoria and began her return voyage to Ireland in the spring of 1939. She reached ...
Fantome was a 679-ton staysail schooner.She was completed in 1927 by the Duke of Westminster.She was purchased by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises in 1969, and became the flagship of their fleet, offering cruises in the Caribbean and the Bay of Honduras.
Lewis R. French is a gaff-rigged topsail schooner sailing out of Camden, Maine as a "Maine windjammer" offering 3 to 6 night cruises to tourists. Built in 1871, she is the oldest known two-masted schooner in the United States, and one of a small number of this once-common form of vessel in active service.
Grace Bailey, also known for many years as Mattie, is a two-masted schooner whose home port is Camden Harbor, Camden, Maine.Built in 1882 in Patchogue, New York, she is one of four surviving two-masted wooden-hulled schooners, once the most common vessel in the American coasting trade. [3]
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 .
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 ...
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