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Article: WHAT EXACTLY IS A TALL SHIP?(OPSAIL NAVIGATOR)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2000
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What is a car?
The answer has within it certain basics, but the definition also is so broad as to cover everything from a gravity-propelled soap box racer to a stretch limousine to a lunar rover.
So too is the definition of a tall ship - both simple yet complex.
Most people typically see them as any vessel of wood - though many have metal hulls - with tall masts supporting a variety of canvas sails of various size, crisscrossed by a maze of lines and ropes.
Loosely taken, any large, rigged vessel that derives from the wind its driving energy may be called a tall ship, even if it is not technically a ship.
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