Windjammer British Isles, inspiration for the Lady Rebecca
My novel Hell around the Horn is set on a British windjammer on a voyage around Cape Horn in the particularly brutal winter of 1905. I wanted to write the novel, in part, because the windjammers have been largely forgotten in these days when any vessel that sets square sails is too often simply called a “pirate ship.” The windjammers were perhaps the greatest sailing vessels ever to cross the oceans. These ships and those who sailed them, deserve better.
William Faulkner once wrote, “the past isn’t dead it isn’t even past.” The same can be said of windjammers. While too often forgotten, they are not yet dead, and they certainly are not past.
But what was a “windjammer?”
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Of all the things worth remembering on 9/11, one incredible event is often overlooked. After the attack, all the bridges, tunnels and rail lines in and out of New York City were shut down. Somewhere between 300,000 and one million people were trapped trapped in lower Manhattan. Amazingly, perhaps miraculously, they were all evacuated by that evening by a flotilla of ferries, tugs, excursion boats, fireboats, buoy tenders, patrol boats and yachts. The evacuation was unplanned and almost spontaneous. The Coast Guard called for “All available boats,” and all available boats responded, the captains and crews doing what needed to be done. It was truly an 
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