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lucybellwood · 9 months

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Sharing another longer comic I made for The Nib back in 2016, since they'll be shutting up shop at the end of this year. This piece was such a great excuse to dig deep into the world of sail-powered cargo! I particularly loved talking to the team behind Ceiba, who are now years into their build and documenting the entire shipbuilding process along the way.

(Dig this? There's always room for more passengers aboard the good ship Patreon.)

#sail cargo #ceiba #tres hombres #age of sail #tall ship sailing #boat stuff #comics #lucy bellwood #the nib #personal work #sailing #climate change #timbercoast #avontuur #dynarig #comics journalism #container ship #container shipping

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theleastprofessionalchef · 10 months

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you have maybe one of the most interesting jobs i've ever seen... how many people live aboard the ship? what do living quarters look like?

Thank you! It's definitely fun, though it has its fair share of stress and unique challenges.

This year we have ten full time, paid crew. We're contracted out through the end of season, or the end of downrig, whichever was determined at the start. Throughout the season, though, we have a number of unpaid volunteers who come through and stay for anywhere from a week to a month at a time, during which they're fed and given a sleeping space like all other crew- only difference being lack of a paycheck. Lady is different from a lot of east coast boats, in that we don't take completely green (new) deckhands on, even as unpaid volunteers; you need to have knowledge of sailing already to come on with us. It's because we're an education-focused vessel, and need our people to know their stuff.

However, we do have a program and a way for newbies to join our crew! You have to pay (and I don't quite remember how much it is. I wanna say somewhere in the vicinity of $600-800? Don't quote me on that), but what you pay for is two weeks of living on board, being fed, housed, and taught from the ground up how to sail! It's called Two Weeks Before the Mast, and it's how we get most of our return volunteers- because after you've done it, you can come back whenever you want! Most people who do it do end up coming back, or staying past the initial two weeks (schedule permitting). It's definitely an investment, but one I highly recommend if it's something you can do.

Right at this moment, we have two volunteers staying with us, both two-weekers. Last week, we had two return volunteers as well, bringing the total crew count up to fourteen- that's a lot of mouths to feed! They're all great though, and I love them all :)

Now, for your second question: it's all communal, baby! Permanent crew gets better bunks and more storage space, but it's still all a big bunkroom for the most part. On Lady, it's down in the foc's'le (short for forecastle, the compartment towards the front of the boat). Four bunks on each side built into the hull itself, cubbies for storage, the like. In the rear of the boat is a smaller compartment, the aft cabin, where there are two more bunks like in the foc's'le, as well as two actual cabins - gasp - with doors! Those belong to the captain and first mate.

The main hold, the central compartment of the ship - where, historically, merchant vessels stored their merchandise - is where the part timers and volunteers sleep. The bunks there are a touch less comfortable and there's a smaller amount of storage space, and in addition, the main hold is basically the crew's communal hangout space. It's our living room, with the heads (toilets- we've got two of them, but they need pumping out at times if they get too full. Think marine port-a-potties), and the galley- that's my domain!

Someday I might do a video tour, or maybe just take a bunch of pictures. It's surprisingly roomy, but you really get to know the people you live with. Best hope you like them! (And best hope you don't snore; everyone will know)

#ask #sailing #tall ship #lady washington #tall ship lady washington #tall ship sailing #schooner bum life #<-I see that tag get used a lot for the east coast? why not

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killjoyecho · 9 months

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I painted the Roald Amundsen

#my art #art #traditional art #watercolour #roald amundsen #tall ship #tall ship sailing #Tall ships races 2023 #Brig Roald Amundsen #seacore #oceancore #Yes I messed up two sails but I realised too late

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thefrillypirate · 2 years

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Another view from my job 💙

#tall ships #tall ship sailing #tall ship sailor #nautical history #piratecore #adventurecore

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maureen2musings · 3 months

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Sailing to Antarctica

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#the drake passage #antarctica #rough seas #tall ship #sailing #curators on tumblr

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letmeinimafairy · 4 months

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New big pendant for a driftwood and sea glass necklace

#painted miniatures #miniature #tall ship #sailing ship #seagull #sea pottery #sea glass #beach findings #naval #nautical art #cobalt #compass #pendant #jewelry #my art

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victusinveritas · 8 months

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Gdansk, Poland.

#poland #cities #europe #tall ships #age of sail #fog

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incognita-soul · 1 year

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Darrell's first day as a ship's cat and bosun's mate on the tall ship Lady Washington!

Here he is inspecting the quality of coils, making sure passengers were heeding the "no smoking" rule, and standing bow watch through the anchor hawse.

He looked very dapper in his PFD and sunglasses! (I highly recommend looking into Surfer Cat for harnesses and PFDs made to fit cat bodies specifically. their gear is well designed, and they are a small company with excellent customer service!)

#im so proud of my son he did so well!#don't worry we haven't replaced marlin he's still our official ships cat #he's just not as comfortable in his pfd yet so he spend the whole sail sulking on the binnacle and i didn't get any good pics of him #lady washington #ships cat #boat cat #black cats #tall ships #age of sail #my post #caturday #darrell blogging #boat adventures

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bantarleton · 1 year

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Iconic.

#master and commander #Royal Navy #history #military history #tall ships #age of sail #aubrey maturin

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lucybellwood · 9 months

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A little snippet from Seacritters, the graphic novel I'm working on with writer Kate Milford.

Monty Mellivore is an idealistic young badger who finds himself on the seafaring adventure of a lifetime after mistakenly signing aboard a pirate ship called the Rodentia.

I spent so much time fleshing out this scene with memories of my own first time climbing aloft on the Lady Washington. This is the "roughs" stage, which is essentially somewhere between thumbnails and pencils. I'm currently fielding notes from the editor and copywriting departments, but after we get those those I'll be turning these into inked pages. There's a lot of story to get through before I draw this sequence, but it's got one of my favorite page turn reveals in the whole book.

(There's a bunch more free process stuff to peruse under the Seacritters tag on Patreon.)

#seacritters #process #comics #making comics #lady washington #tall ship sailing #climbing aloft

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theleastprofessionalchef · 10 months

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Reblog Marlin the Money Cat for a bountiful year

#tips-mas in the aft cabin aye #marlin blogging #tall ship sailing #ship cat #cat #kitty #photography #mine

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solarpunks · 2 years

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This cargo ship from 1909 is starting to make zero-emissions deliveries again

Sailcargo doesn’t expect to replace the massive industry. But as companies look for ways to reduce emissions, it can offer a solution that works now. Because it doesn’t use shipping containers—goods are loaded on pallets—it also has some logistical advantages. “Some of these fast vessels have to wait at port often up to two weeks, because they’re dependent on the port infrastructure,” says Doggett. “They need the big crane to unload the container. We do not—we can unload ourselves.”

Doggett, who started sailing on tall ships as a 13-year-old, started thinking about the potential to revive traditional cargo shipping more than a decade ago. In 2014, she and two partners launched the company and later began working on building a traditional vessel from scratch. While traveling, Doggett had also run across the Vega. The ship, built in 1909, had been retired in the 1960s, as fossil-fueled container ships started to dominate trade routes. It was headed for the scrapyard when a family of Swedish shipbuilders rescued it and spent years restoring it; Doggett, who loved the design, stayed in touch with them and eventually made a deal to buy it.