![]() Virtual Regatta Inshore: the best online sailing simulation since Virtual Skipper! ![]() Upgrade your boats with the points earned in each regatta, and compete for the official virtual sailing world champion title, awarded by the World Sailing Association. The short format of racing is identical to the one used for real life competitions, such as the America’s Cup and the Star Sailors League, with a unique virtual umpire who applies the official rules of sailing. He has spent his life on or about boats, and restored and sailed his own boats for all of his life.Your fleet of inshore yachts includes ultra-fast foiling catamarans, dinghies or cutting-edge monohulls. David worked for over 40 years in the study and promotion of American folklife and folklore. History can be humorous, surprising, and even shocking, and, it is anything but dull.ĭavid Fooks is a sailor, folklorist, and storyteller. The British monarchy financed and provided oversight for the largest slave transport company in history.Women served as crew in the British Navy, and fought alongside their husbands a two-year-old boy served as a midshipman, and babies were born on Nelson's flagship during both the Battles of Trafalgar and the Nile.America’s most famous lightkeeper, recognized for saving as many as 32 drowning men over 52 years, was a woman.Horatio Nelson, England’s greatest naval hero, suffered from violent seasickness.Magellan wasn’t the first to circumvent the globe.Columbus spent much of his life as a pirate.But, behind these were real people, and digging into their lives can bring up startling facts: Today, this exciting era receives just superficial coverage names, dates and what was accomplished. ![]() From 1450 to 1850 the Western world experienced explosive and violent change, most of it brought about by the great sailing ships of the era, and driven by the personal ambition for power and riches in a handful of men and women, who in many cases didn’t have a clue what they were getting into. ![]() The Age of Sail wrought the greatest change to the world in the history of mankind possibly until the Age of Space Exploration. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |