Tall Ship

A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall Ship" can also be defined more specifically by an organization, such as for a race or festival.

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Famous quotes containing the words tall and/or ship:

    “How tall the buildings were as I began
    To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.”
    —John Lennon (1940–1980)