eric's little black star » Hey! Nice boat!

eric on Jun 29th 2009 at 6:15 am Around Seattle

Hey! Nice boat!

The bunch of us¹ recently ventured to Gas Works Park. There we saw a fine little vessel called Amazing Grace…

After some searching, I found a website about her:

“Amazing Grace is a topsail schooner and sets a square topsail on the foremast and seven fore and aft sails: gaff main, gaff topsail, main and fore staysails, fisherman staysail, and inner and outer jibs. These can be used in different combinations to suit the wind conditions. The rigging is complex and logical having evolved over the last two hundred years. She was originally rigged as a brigantine and would have carried three square sails; a course, topsail, and topgallant. We plan on restoring her to this original rig by adding these three sails soon!”

Though I couldn’t get any pictures of it, she does seem to be equipped with some firepower. We heard her firing her guns on a couple of occasions, which must frighten the crap out of other boats in the area (which is, of course, hilarious).