A historic experience? Yes, and lots of fun.
  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I looked into sailing on tall ships years ago. It was incredibly expensive as a guest, and hard as hell to get into as crew.

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      hard as hell to get into as crew.

      I would assume it is the same as any merchant mariner. Lots of licensing and training.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Many European navies have these as training ships and it used to be quite common that you could sign up as a recruit and spend some time on board. Probably easier than becoming a trained crew otherwise.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Many accept volunteers for the enormous amount of shore side maintenance work, and I’ve known several people who parleyed that into (low) paying work.

  • hihi@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I live in Sausalito, where the Matthew Turner is berthed, and was fortunate to watch it, as the Educational Tall Ship subject vessel, a few years ago; today I regularly watch it on the bay from my house. It is beautiful.