Being the 'Mate' on a topsail schooner is a busy job – we find out exactly what it's like in this video of Herreshoff schooner 'Mariette of 1915' with their Mate, Roy Kum.
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12 metre yachts, originally designed for America's Cup Racing. Now, at least on the East Coast of the United States, you can sail them, even charter these exciting boats.... Get on board in this film.
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Take a ride on 'Nellie', a 1903 Herreshoff Sloop racing in the Newport, RI Panerai Classic Yacht Regatta (2010).
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The story of a humble boatyard's most intense job to date – re-rigging the Cutty Sark. Jim Dines of Heritage Marine and TS Rigging reconditioned and made up 2.5 km of wire standing rigging, 14km rope for running rigging, 400 wooden blocks, 700 shackles, 41 spars, 9 mast sections, 17 yards, including one as spare for the Cutty Sark.
The story of a life-long diver and his treasures.
Like a modern-day pirate, 75-year-old Ray Ives has been scouring the seabed for treasure his whole life. The former commercial diver has plundered the deep for over fifty years, bringing to the surface anything that glittered -- even gold.
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