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Rhode Island Rendezvous Newport Rhode Island: 1765 The Seven Years War is over but unrest in the American colonies is just heating up… Maintaining her disguise as a young man, [...]
Who wouldn’t sell a petticoat and go to sea?
A sailor takes her easeartwork by Eye Be Oderlesseye.mimifoxmorton.blogspot.com Women in breeches -- I got caught up in the masquerade back in 1999, while serving as a voyage crewmember [...]
A ballad of a cross-dressing sailor
Short jacket and white trousers this young girl she put on And like a gallant seaman bold went roving through the town. She did sign on with our Captain Blare [...]
Sisters Under Sail in 2012
It's that time of year when a young woman's heart turns to the sea... Taking a break from all my reading about the lives of the women at sea during [...]
A thrilling YouTube video — and some sobering thoughts…
A tallship experience for Coast Guard cadets I first saw this YouTube video on The Fiddeye Guide, Joe Follansbye's remarkable website, an encyclopedia for the lover of American maritime history. [...]
Girls just wanna have fun — circumnavigating solo.
Teens have always been notorious risk-takers. Still, it’s difficult for us to imagine our teenage daughters and sons setting out to sail alone around the world. Yet the world was discovered, conquered, [...]