Ship
Facts
They
say the Mandalay is the queen of the Windjammer fleet. Here's why.
It is a 236 foot Barquentine commissioned by E.F. Hutton in 1923.
A Barquentine is a vessel with at least three masts, all of them
fore-and-aft rigged, except for the foremost one, which is square
rigged. Three-masted barquentines were very common in the Baltic
and the North Sea, and three- and four-masted barquentines also
sailed on deep-water trades. A number of five-masted barquentines
were built, and even some six-masted ones in America. It can be
argued that the barquentine belongs to the family of schooners;
indeed, in Scandinavian languages the barquentine is referred to
as a "schooner ship".
E.F.
Hutton sold this beautiful ship in the 1930's because his wife didn't
like the size of it and he built a sister ship called the "Sea
Cloud", which we saw in Antigua. What's not to like about the
Mandalay?
It
has a crew of 30, it has 72 berths and a Draft of 15 ft. It's the
kind of ship you only see in the movies, but I got to sail on it
to some really neat remote Islands.
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