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Article: Setting sail: Riding high at the tall ships festival at Victoria, B.C.
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2005
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VICTORIA, B.C., Canada -- Like live ornaments on huge trees,
Mexican sailors manned the yardarms as their colorful ship entered
James Bay with a style befitting the Tall Ships Victoria festival.
Not since the earlier days of this Hudson's Bay Company settlement
have large sailing vessels been so dominant. Twenty six boats, from
the minute 20-foot 6-inch Trekka that carried John Guzwell on a four-
year circumnavigation, to the massive 356-foot Russian school ship
Pallada, were tucked in the inner harbor.
In addition to the spectacular tall ships like the Lady
Washington, which starred in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean,"
Victoria hosted about two dozen speedy sailboats competing in the ...